Picking up on architecture's tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Gunther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape a...

The way we live is rapidly changing under pressure from multiple forces – financial, environmental, technological, geopolitical. What we used to call home may not even exist anymore, having transmuted into a financial commodity of which the square me...

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life's work at the Milan Triennial, and has b...

OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: "The Office" and "The Repository". The "Repo...

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been confl ated with urgent discussions of how material...

Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals – the exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas – the book offers insights on Venetian facades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, win...

Struggles to escape form as a manifestation of various norms and constraints are as old as architecture itself. But the formless is also increasingly in the air today, explicitly as in discussions of the "formless" quality of the city, and implicitly...

Embracing that which could dominate us – the city, infrastructure and overpopulation – has been part of the process of Steven Holl Architects as the office has taken on work of increasing complexity and scale in China over the past decade. The projec...

Nairobi, in its short history spanning just over one hundred years, has grown to be one of the most varied and international cities of our contemporary world. Migration has been shown as one of the key forces infl uencing the city. In the context of...

"Zaha Hadid Architects: Heydar Aliyev Center" is devoted to the new cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. As one of the most important cultural centers in the country, the building houses a variety of i...