The first object that visitors find when they arrive at Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is not a tubular steel chair or a coffee and tea service or any of the other icons that have come to represent the storied German school. Instead, it is a photograph showing a group of students posing inside a stack of gridded shelves taken as a memento when founding director Walter Gropius departed. Photo ' Scott Rudd (top); Estate of Erich Consemüller (bottom) Installation view of Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at the Museum of Modern Art
Punk rock architecture and why starchitects aren't enough. Cirque du Soleil Executive Creative Director Welby Altidor's keynote speech. After the hype generated by tight crowds, high security, and a bomb sniffing dog in anticipation of Bill Clinton’s keynote address Thursday, today’s presentations at the American Institute of Architects’ national convention in Atlanta had a decidedly more laidback, TED-like feel. The first speaker, Welby Altidor, executive creative director for Cirque du Soleil (he also self-identifies as a “status quo Chief Challenger” on Twitter) encouraged the crowd to take a more unorthodox approach to their work. “I see in all of
The Former President challenges architects to take on pressing global issues and "low-hanging fruit." Bill Clinton gives the opening keynote at the 2015 AIA convention in Atlanta. Former President Bill Clinton delivered a keynote address Thursday to kick off the American Institute of Architects’ annual national convention. The 42nd president of the United States—who after introductions bounced spryly onto the stage—addressed a crowd of approximately 7,000 architecture professionals in the Georgia World Expo Center in downtown Atlanta, touching on a number of daunting global issues including terrorism, inequality, and global warming. But, he said, with the challenges come opportunities.“There is
Shigeru Ban first built paper emergency shelters in 1994 for Rwandan refugees. Pritzker Prize Laureate Shigeru Ban has announced plans to contribute to emergency relief efforts in Nepal after the April 25 earthquake reduced cities to rubble, killed more than 7,000, and left thousands homeless. In the short term, Ban’s firm and his relief organization Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) will distribute simple tents—supplemented with plastic sheets donated by contractors to serve as wall partitions—and assemble them onsite as temporary shelter and medical aid stations.As conditions in the country begin to stabilize, VAN says it will team up with local universities,
Tadao Ando has just added 3,700 square feet of new gallery space to his Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, which first opened in 2001. The exterior of the introverted reinforced-concrete structure remains unchanged. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation unveiled 3,700 square feet of new gallery space May 1, tucked within the serenely introverted structure designed by Tokyo-based Tadao Ando. In 2001, the Pulitzer opened in the Grand Center arts district of St. Louis with two long wings enclosed in honed concrete embracing a shallow reflecting pool and sculpture terrace. The main gallery, which remains unaltered, captures the movement of sun
On Thursday, April 30, 300 architects, industry professionals, and students gathered at the W Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles for Architectural Record’s second annual West Coast Innovation Conference.
The Grace Farms Foundation, a New Canaan, Connecticut-based non-profit with a multifarious mission focused on faith, justice, and community, has announced that it will officially open its new complex on October 9.
The Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum will be built near the University of Chicago on the city's South Side, beating out potential sites at Columbia University and the University of Hawaii, the New York Times reported yesterday. While the library's exact location has yet to be finalized, two Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parks—Jackson Park and Washington Park—are in the running. An architect has yet to be named.The location appears a logical choice: Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School before running for office and Michelle Obama was raised on the South Side. The Obamas also have a house
Edificio FOCSAErnesto Gómez Sampera and Martín DomínguezHavana, Cuba1956 Sixty years ago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Latin American Architecture Since 1945, turning attention to a part of the world that seemed ready to assume a major role in architecture and design. Military coups and economic turmoil in the 1960s and ’70s, though, put an end to such optimism. Now the region is a dynamic force once again, and the museum has mounted an ambitious exhibition, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980. São Paulo–based Leonardo Finotti took new photographs of many of the buildings in the show
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