Matt Shaw
The 2014 Venice Biennale program of national pavilions was titled “Absorbing Modernity,” which had the premise that local, regional, and national cultures had absorbed the modern way of building in different ways. One of the most exciting places that Modernism intersected with traditional aesthetic notions and traditional building techniques was in Africa. Image via Pinterest…
The Vitra Design Museum (VDM) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, will celebrate African design and architect ure with an African theme for the next six months. The programming starts with the exhibition “Architecture of Independence – African Modernism,” which opened on February 20th and runs until May 31st, and “Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary…
Even though we’ve grown used to seeing Photoshopped images, this doesn’t mean that docto red photos have lost their ability to unsettle or provoke us as viewers. This is the impetus behind artist Olivier Ratsi‘s “Anarchitecture” series, where familiar buildings are edited into uncanny versions by manipulating colors, textures, and edges to make impossible-looking new skylines.…
FIGMENT, the summer-long art and design festival that pops up on Governors Island every summer, has selected not one but two pavilions to be built for its 2015 summer “City of Dreams” program. The two designs are well underway, but they need your help to make it across the finish line. They are both seeking…
Every little bit counts when it comes to caring for the environment. Reusing, recycling, and choosin g eco-friendly products all go a long way — at least when enough consumers take part. Larger entities, including the United States federal government, have to do their part, too, or else their bad habits will drown out the efforts…
A street corner in Turin, Italy, got a major upgrade when Luciano Pia created an urban jungle at an apartment complex that is more like a treehouse than a housing block. 25 Verde not only makes an oasis in the city with lush, green spaces, but it is also biomimetically designed to be sustainable: When…
Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League of New York have named Cambridge and Philadelph ia-based firm IK Studio the winners of the 2015 Folly Program. Their winning design, Torqueing Spheres weaves a series of intertwining, sculpted forms into a meandering curved folly that encourages social interaction. The design is uniquely suited for its context —…
When Italian-Spanish illustrator Federico Babina draws architecture, he does not simply draw archite cture. His illustrations radically reimagine his subjects, leaving us with new visions of what the architecture means. Drawing can be productive as a method to arrive at a design, but it can also help us re-interpret built work after it is completed. All…
This might just be the best month of the year — it’s the first day of spring (despite the weat her), March Madness is starting, and the A+Awards public voting is live. And who could forget Spring Break? Get out your towels and dust off your sandals, because we are here to show you the best…