Michael Rakowitz’s new work The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist was unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square today, Wednesday 28 March, by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert around Cairo. This book offers the first systematic exploration of these cities, analyzing their urban form, their promise, and their shortcomings. Originally intended to satisfy growing demand for housing, most of the desert towns have never been completed.
The Estonian Centre of Architecture presents the exhibition Weak Monument in the Pavilion of Estonia at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th - November 25th, 2018), entitled Freespace, and curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.
Art & Design is often an isolated industry, heavily determined by the location of the artist’s practice. Both viewer and creator struggle to draw inspiration from places never visited. Creating and exhibiting are now shifting to reflect the increasingly hyperconnected digital art world.
The Wishbone Chair, the Peacock Chair, the Round Chair: the Danish furniture de- signer Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914–2007) was one of the most significant figures in postwar Scandinavian design. Despite their often unassuming names, many of his pieces have become classics of modern furniture design. They expertly unite an ex- pressive aesthetic, practical functionalism and Danish craftsmanship.
Balkrishna Doshi was sitting his in his garden in Ahmedabad—the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat—chatting with his wife and a friend when he received a phone call from Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She asked him if he was still able to travel.
In the digital era the office is ubiquitous, without a defined space or time. Everything can be done at any moment of the day and in any location. Caruso St John Architects and Javier Mozas (a+t research group) attempt to define the character of the contemporary office through paradigm-changing buildings and their sources of inspiration.
For the new collection « Azo », François Bauchet continues his research on forms and materials.
Following on from the 2013« Cellae » collection involving the use of modular elements made of felt soaked in resin, Bauchet has now developed an innovative composite material of sand, resin and concrete.
Exploring the interplay of light and color, afterglow, presents concepts that have evolved over a decade of research, experimentation, and installations by Luftwerk.
Kunlé Adeyemi hustled across the ballroom in Venice, Italy, with a wide smile on his face. He wore a tailored tunic and pants—classic Nigerian menswear—cut from glossy brown fabric. The staid crowd that had gathered to witness his coronation applauded politely as he beckoned his team to join him on stage.
DeTnk is pleased to announce the publication of the 2018 DeTnk Collectible Design Market Report.
The DeTnk Collectible Design Market Report is a holistic analysis of the emerging collectible design market. The report focuses on the past nine years of sales from 5 of the largest auction houses including: Christie’s New York, Paris, and London; Sotheby’s New York, Paris, and London; Phillips New York and London; Dorotheum and Wright.
Artists are at the heart of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the support of their work forms the core of our purpose. Offered in this sale are a selection of iconic Artist’s Editions from the ICA’s Archive. We have always commissioned our Artists’ Editions as a test-site for artistic production by the most interesting artists working at the time.
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