Making | Breaking: New Arrivals at Cooper Hewitt features more than forty recent contemporary acquisitions from the museum’s permanent collection, as well as sketches, prototypes, and videos illuminating the designers’ groundbreaking design thinking. These new designs push the boundaries of materials, making, and form.
Chamber is pleased to announce that Collection #3, curated by Matylda Krzykowski of Depot Basel,
will open with Part IV Room With Its Own Rules. Collection #3 is comprised of four parts that have opened periodically since October 2016. Part IV is the final show of Collection #3. Krzykowski’s last show for the collection will feature newly commissioned, one-of-a-kind and limited-edition
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as avant-garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics.
Ankara, Baghdad, Tehran and Tangier are vibrant metropolises of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). They pulsate with an innovative cultural life – despite the political headlines. The exhibition »Mudun مدن Urban Cultures in Transit« views these cities from a micro-perspective, examining their architecture, urban neighbourhoods and the protagonists who shape them.
Seminal art and design theorist Hal Fosters reviews Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2005 by Philip Jodidio and Renzo Piano Building Workshop Vol. IV by Peter Buchanan for the London Review of Books, Published in September of 2007.
On June 6, Sotheby’s Important Design auction will present a curated selection of exceptional design works from the last century, including chapters of International Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, American Studio, and Contemporary design.
The Design sale will offer a wide selection of French creations, representing different periods: from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, the 40-50s, and the 70s to contemporary design. These include Émile Gallé, Claude Lalanne, Jean Prouvé, Jean-Michel Frank, Serge Manzon, Louis Majorelle, André Arbus, Serge Mouille and Charlotte Perriand.
Antoni Gaudí is known to many as the genius behind Sagrada Família, the monumental church in Barcelona, Spain, that has been called “the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages.”
In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a meaningful connection with nature.
DeTnk is pleased to announce the publication of the 2017 DeTnk Collectible Design Market Report. The global collectible design market has grown across the board in 2016, with 25.3% more lots offered for sale and a 36.35% increase in total value of sales.
The Ragged School Museum on the banks of Regent’s Canal has witnessed almost two centuries of change in East London, as a succession of communities have come and gone, each leaving their own traces on the urban landscape. Even the museum buildings themselves have evolved over the decades: warehouse to schoolhouse, factory to museum.
How can we provide spaces for urban manufacturing so that they encourage industries to take root in our cities—and thrive? Thinking economically, architecturally and urbanistically, what is the factory of the future?
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