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“I call my work a ‘parallel practice’ … You can’t have a linear practice,” says architect Toshiko Mo ri about her over 30 years of work in the architectural profession. The breadth of Mori’s work can be categorized by this idea of a ‘parallel practice,’ one that rigorously observes the pluralities, the contradictions and the complexities…
This article was cowritten with Joanna Kloppenburg. The project for a public park on Governors Islan d in New York City began in 2006 with an international call for proposals, the commission ultimately being awarded to landscape architecture firm West 8. Recognized for large-scale urban planning and landscape projects responsive to global warming, urbanization and infrastructure,…
“I always believe that we need visual, auditory or tactile cues from parts of a space that we can’t occupy with our bodies, in order to truly perceive it.” Since graduating from architecture school at the University of Waterloo, designer Omer Arbel has carved out a unique practice. His company Bocci is best known for…
“Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are fomenting the biggest revolution in architecture since the inve ntion of steel, concrete and the elevator,” exclaimed Architizer founder Marc Kushner on Medium last year. “It is a media revolution.” If any further evidence was needed to support the architect’s claim, this is surely it. Iwan Baan and SO – IL(Solid…
J. Michael Welton writes about architecture, art and design for national and international publicati ons. He is the author of Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand (Routledge, 2015). When Studio-Tag opened in the Plant Building near New York City’s Times Square in April, it introduced a concept for commercial interiors as revolutionary as…
Revisiting NOWNESS’s special series “In Residence” leads us to Xavier Corbero’s maze-like house. The Catalan sculptor’s home in Esplugues de Llobregat, a town on the outskirts of Barcelona, is a treasure cove of art and antiques. Among objects of all kinds, his sculptures stand tall, as they do in many museums around the world. Xavier…
The “House Vision” exhibition was launched in 2011 as an opportunity for the leading lights of Japan ese design to explore future possibilities for the house, a structure that — perhaps more than any other — intimately reflects the way people live. Indeed, archaeologists have been known to study the home designs of lost civilizations to…
Architects, with increasing sophistication, are producing nuanced structures that provide some comfo rts for visitors in remote and often harsh locations.
Historians mark Bastille Day as one of the most important days in history because of what followed a fter the storming of the French fortress from which it takes its name on this day over two centuries ago. July 14th, 1789, marked a key moment at the very onset of the French Revolution, which would lead…