Architect Peter Eisenman talks to ARCHITECT about his 10 years of research into Andrea Palladio, and how he intends to reinterpret the 16th-century master.
If the hole-in-the-wall restaurant at the end of the street is your scene, then a new book on cool restaurants is probably not for you. But for the customer looking for dining digs where architecture and design come first, you might consider starting here.
What would become the background for the 2012 beach volleyball portion of the London Olympic Games is only under construction in an 18th-century painting. It can be yours for €2 to €3 million ($2.6 to $3.9 million) on Oct. 17.
Design often means stepping outside of the office—when surfing—or thinking outside of the box—when thinking of design as great food. See design through designers' eyes in a film series by Herman Miller.
String Theory Productions makes buildings sing by turning architecture into musical instruments. See the group turn the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts into a harp this weekend.
The result of a six-week residency in Vermont for two up-and-coming Cuban architects—there on their first trip out of Cuba—is now on exhibit in New York. It's co-curated by architect Ricardo Porro of Cuban National Art Schools fame.
On the 100th anniversary of his death, architect Frank Furness gets a revival of recognition for designing hundreds of Philadelphia's buildings—and for influencing Louis Sullivan. The Philadelphia Museum of Art hosts an exhibition that focuses on Furness's relationship with his protégée.
In 1953, six years before the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum was opened, some of Wright’s finest work was put on display at a temporary pavilion in New York City. Part of that retrospective, including a Usonian model home, is now on display at the Guggenheim.
Austrian-born designer Josef Frank helped warm up characteristically cold Modernism with his floral patterns and eclectic designs. A revival of popularity for his patterns results in a new exhibit, 'The Enduring Designs of Josef Frank.'
A new exhibit at the Museum of California Design honors nearly a century’s worth of contributions women made to the design field.
Photographs documenting the latest work of Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandson architect Eric are on display at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. through Sept. 30, before heading overseas to the U.S. Embassy in Finland.
Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture at Chicago's Carnegie Museum of Art, documents a new trend in museum design: one that fuses buildings, landscape, and art into one.
Mexican architect Nora Enriquez curates an exhibit at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, highlighting the work of up-and-coming Latin American women architects.
As part of the 2012 Seattle Design Festival, the Seattle Architecture Foundation celebrates its 15th annual models exhibit, with participating firms including firms such as DLR Group, ZGF Architects, LMN Architects, and Mithun.
A first overview of architect-philosopher Bernard Tschumi covers 30 years of his ideas and works, to be released in October by Rizzoli.
The Lipstick Building's new owners celebrate the cosmetic-shaped building's designer, Philip Johnson, with an exhibit covering 50 years of his work, including plans and drawings of the building itself.
Though it’s uncertain how many Frank Lloyd Wright blueprints are yet to be discovered, it’s still a rare opportunity when you get a chance to bid on your own set. On Sept. 27, blueprints from Fallingwater in Pennsylvania could go for at least $13,000.
At the newly opened exhibition space at Le Stanze Del Vetro ("Rooms for Glass"), hundreds of Carlo Scarpa's works from his time overseeing glassmaker Venini will be on display through November.
AIA Architecture Design Week DC brings an exhibit on the winners of the French Prize for Young Architects and Landscape Designers.
More than 3,300 different lectures, symposias, performances, and gallery talks are now available to the public, courtesy of SCI-Arc's Media Archive. Speakers include four decades of architects, designers, artists, and theorists.
