In a time of radical change and challenges, design innovations are emerging that could have long-term, positive impacts for the planet and humanity alike. ICON’s Autumn 2020 issue brings together an array of these inspiring designers and architects reshaping our world for the better.
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today
Scientists and engineers recognize an elusive but profound difference between precision and accuracy. The two qualities often go hand in hand, of course, but precision involves an ideal of meticulousness and consistency, while accuracy implies real-world truth.
'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen Jones
A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet.
An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture.
Friedman Benda is pleased to present “gt2P: Manufactured Landscapes,” the Chilean collective’s first solo gallery exhibition and a culmination of their four-year research project and collaboration with Friedman Benda. Emerging as pioneers of contemporary craft, gt2P combine digital production with traditional techniques driven by their cultural heritage.
For this book, Danish artist and photographer Kasper Akhoj documented the ongoing restoration of E-1027, Eileen Gray's modernist villa in France.
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.
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.
What Is Different? is the title of this year’s edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans. Since the early 2000s Tillmans has been working on truth study centre, a cycle of works concerned with absolute claims of truth in social and political contexts.
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945.
Following of from his best selling,Postmodern Architecture in London (2007), Bronstein turns his focus to the subsequent style which has dominated London – the pseudo-Georgian.
Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more.
Ross Lovegrove is an internationally renowned designer and visionary, whose works are celebrated as the new aesthetic expression of the twenty-first century. His industrial design is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. It connects technology and innovative production methods with new materials and an intelligent, organic vocabulary of forms, in an inimitable way.
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