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A year and a half after officials in the Chicago suburban of Oak Park were poised to consider the demolition of its own Village Hall, the Village Board voted to revitalize the building designed by Harry Weese in 1975.
With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
A lot of books make their way to the office of World-Architects, so many that coverage of all of them is impossible. Occasionally, the books we receive converge to paint a portrait of contemporary publishing, as do the nine books assembled here. They signal other ways of making books: via...
AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in...
With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many recently published architecture books to find a dozen recommendations for summer reading, presented in alphabetical order by title — or clockwise per our sunny illustration.
Four years in the making, Art Applied is the third and latest book by Petra Blaisse on her Amsterdam design studio Inside Outside. Clocking in at nearly 900 pages and cloaked in a dust jacket that...
Last week Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced that the “Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration” will take place July 18–21, almost exactly 20 years after 24-acre park opened to the public.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of 2023 DAM Architectural Book Award, selecting the ten best architecture books from 245 submissions from 102 publishers.
In Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy a poet seeks answers to structural failures both personal and collective. Madeline Beach Carey examines the results.
A critical exploration of architecture is needed today more than ever, but architectural criticism is in a crisis. A new book, edited by Wilfried Wang, could bring momentum back to the discipline.
Poet Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of numerous poetry collections and a professor at University of Manitoba. Her work explores women’s lives and art practices, as well as the body in relationship to public space. Madeline Beach Carey reviews The Poet and the Architect, published...
The award-winning book Swissness Applied focuses its attention on New Glarus, the tiny Wisconsin town whose downtown buildings draw tourists through facades that exude Swissness. World-Architects editor John Hill delved into the book by Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie of Architecture...
In Project Without Form: OMA, Rem Koolhaas, and the Laboratory of 1989, ZHAW professor Holger Schurk delves inside the Office of Metropolitan Architecture when it was working on three competition submissions in one year. OMA has not been the same since.
Spazio Projects, the YouTube channel of Spazio, the bookstore, gallery, and "independent platform for critical reflection, speculation and discussion" in Milan, features videos with readings from books about architecture.
The New York Times is reporting that the condo board of 432 Park Avenue, the supertall tower in Midtown Manhattan designed by Rafael Viñoly, is suing CIM Group and Macklowe Properties for $125 million in damages over "some 1,500 construction and design defects."
With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through numerous recently published books on architecture and related fields to find ten recommendations for summer reading.
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, released in 1962, is considered the first monograph on the great American architect. It is also the first of nearly 100 books by influential "information architect" Richard Saul Wurman. Long out of print and hard to find, a facsimile edition...
LA+ Journal has revealed the five winning designs in its ICONOCLAST ideas competition, which asked entrants to "reimagine Central Park to explore questions of how we represent nature and how we think about public space in the 21st century."
Artist Conrad Bakker has been documenting the life of influential artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973) by creating carved and painted reconstructions of each book in the late artist's 1,120-strong library.
In just over a week the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale opens to the public. While the exhibition shines a spotlight on an international assemblage of architects in the Arsenale and the national pavilions in the Giardini, the anticipatation also has us thinking about the buildings being...
A new book by Olivier Meystre, Pictures of the Floating Microcosm: New Representations of Japanese Architecture, provides a critique of the design process and representational methods of contemporary Japanese Architects.
The project proposes a complete renovation of a poor architectural quality building from the beginning of the 1980s, outdated in terms of energy and distribution.
In celebration of Prospect Park's 150th anniversary, the famous Brooklyn park's Rose Garden has been taken over by 7,000 yellow pinwheels per a design by Reddymade Architecture and Design with AREA4.
Seven shortlisted design teams – David Adjaye and BIG, among them – have produced concept designs for the new Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have once again collaborated with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, devising Hansel & Gretel, an interactive installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
An Occupation of Loss, an installation and performance piece designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with artist Taryn Simon, runs at New York's Park Avenue Armory from 13 to 25 September 2016.
