Squat London: Nilufar Gallery, in collaboration with Shalini Misra Ltd

Squat London: Nilufar Gallery, in collaboration with Shalini Misra Ltd

6 June - 15 October '16

Following the success of the previous editions in Paris, Beirut and Milan, Nilufar Gallery, in collaboration with Shalini Misra Ltd, presents the 5th edition of SQUAT, which launched for the first time in London on 7 June 2016.

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"Lathe" an Exhibition of the Designs of Sebastian Brajkovic at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York

"Lathe" an Exhibition of the Designs of Sebastian Brajkovic at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York

3 May - 2 July '16

For its first exhibition of works by Sebastian Brajkovic in New York, Carpenters Workshop Gallery will present ‘LATHE’, a culmination of work from the Dutch artist. Brajkovic’s designs re-interpret 18th century furniture archetypes, transmuted through expressive and surreal forms, while integrating traditional techniques of master craftsmanship with new methods of technology.

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Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design

Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design

18 June – 6 November '16

The V&A celebrates the life and legacy of the 20th century’s greatest engineer, Ove Arup (1895-1988), with the first ever retrospective on the philosopher-engineer. Through his pioneering philosophy of Total Design, which for him meant to ‘join all the professions right from the start’, Ove Arup redefined the way architects, designers and engineers work together.

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Manifesta 11: European biennial of contemporary art

Manifesta 11: European biennial of contemporary art

11 June - 18 September '16

Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is a migratory biennial which aims to reflect critically on Europe‘s changing cultural DNA. The eleventh edition of Manifesta, located in Zurich and titled What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures, has been curated by German artist Christian Jankowski.

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Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu at Camden Arts Centre

Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu at Camden Arts Centre

19 June - 18 September '16

Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu (b. 1965, Lagos), is the latest in our series of artist-selected shows. Duro Olowu is a celebrated fashion designer whose bold innovations with pattern, colour and shape reveal his early influences living between Nigeria and Europe, and his ongoing fascination with the world.

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Horror in Architecture by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing

Horror in Architecture by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing

DeTnk Bookshelf

This book looks at the idea of horror and its analogues in architecture. In these, normal compositions become strange: extra limbs appear, holes open where they should not, individual objects are doubled or split or perversely occupied. Horrifying buildings re-imagine the possibilities of architectural language, shifting from “natural” norms to other, more rarified and exciting options.

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Monocle 24: The Urbanist - London special

Monocle 24: The Urbanist - London special

Design Podcast

In this special live episode of The Urbanist, Monocle editor Andrew Tuck hands over the floor to city-planners and urban leaders to discuss how to build a better London. Featuring Peter York, consultant and author, Sharon Ament, the director of the Museum of London, Peter Wynne Rees, professor of places and city planning at UCL and Christopher Choa, vice-president at Aecom.

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Design Miami/ Basel 2016 DeTnk Picks

Design Miami/ Basel 2016 DeTnk Picks

A Selection of Works from Design Miami/ Basel

After scouting around Design Miami/ this week DeTnk has selected a series of works that you must stop and see this weekend before the fair ends.

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Light-filled off-grid tiny home on wheels

Light-filled off-grid tiny home on wheels

Designed by Scottish design firm Echo Living

Nestled on the Greek island of Crete is an airy, custom-built tiny home on wheels, created by Scottish design firm Echo Living for a yoga teacher who resides here for part of the year.

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Pablo Bronstein: A is Building, B is Architecture

Pablo Bronstein: A is Building, B is Architecture

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Pablo Bronstein is interested in the links between classical architecture and contemporary urbanism, between settings and decors, between art and dance.

Through drawing, sculpture, video and performance, he looks at the historical otherness in order to unveil the links between power, fascination and classical art.

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Wallpaper by House of Hackney

Wallpaper by House of Hackney

Made In England

In 2011 House of Hackney was founded around a kitchen table in a house in Hackney, London by husband-and-wife team Javvy M Royle and Frieda Gormley.

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Serpentine Summer House 2016 designed by Barkow Leibinger; (10 June – 9 October); Photo © Iwan Baan

Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016: Pavilion and Summer Houses

10 June – 9 October '16

The Serpentine opens it expanded Architecture Programme for 2016 later this week: the 16th annual Pavilion designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) (Copenhagen/New York) and four newly commissioned Summer Houses by Kunlé Adeyemi – NLÉ (Amsterdam/Lagos), Barkow Leibinger (Berlin/New York), Yona Friedman (Paris) and Asif Khan (London).

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Mono.Kultur 32 – Martino Gamper: All Channels Personal

Mono.Kultur 32 – Martino Gamper: All Channels Personal

DeTnk Bookshelf

Mono.kultur is an independent interview magazine from Berlin. Each issue interviews just one person, from various fields of culture. Every issue is carefully edited and produced slightly differently in keeping with the artist of choice.

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Craft + Manufacture: Industrial Design by Foster + Partners

Craft + Manufacture: Industrial Design by Foster + Partners

12 May - 2 July '16

The Aram Gallery is pleased to present Craft + Manufacture, an exhibition of industrial design by Foster + Partners. The gallery space will host an array of furniture, fittings, products and lighting developed over the years by the practice, illustrating its integrated approach to design across many diverse projects.

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SCUM Manifesto Revisited: The Verso Podcast with Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar and Sophie Mayer

SCUM Manifesto Revisited: The Verso Podcast with Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar and Sophie Mayer

“Solanas suggests that civil disobedience is more or less the most useless thing you can do. It's the classic radical or ‘extremist’ argument that suggests that a reformist approach to a system is the worst to take because it upholds it. I think that's something that's disappeared from a lot of radical writing — that refusal to collaborate with a system that you find abhorrent.” — Juliet Jacques

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