New York’s American Folk Art Museum unveiled 'Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art,' an exhibition of couture fashion creations framed by the work of fabrication-focused architecture firm Situ Studio.
Highlights from architecture photographer Iwan Baan's oeuvre are currently on display at the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, titled The Way We Live, features over a dozen projects, including Baan’s blockbuster photograph of a dark lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy that appeared on the cover of New York magazine. Click through the slide show for a sampling of Baan’s projects, which range from Toyo Ito's Mikimoto Ginza 2 building in Tokyo to Torre David, a skyscraper-turned-settlement in Caracas, Venezuela. The exhibition runs through April 13. Iwan Baan, Dubai #1, 2010, Digital C-Print, 48 x 72 inches
From October 17 to 30, a temporary prefab “neighborhood” in Philadelphia will offer an optimistic view of what a revitalized city might look like in the near future.
One of the results of the current Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is the rediscovery of historical prefab housing on the opposite coast.
For more than a decade, Olafur Eliasson has been making art on a grand scale by recreating the sensory effects of the natural landscape, often inspired by his Icelandic homeland.