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Who writes history and who archives it to shape our collective ...

The Graz exhibition “Approximate Line of Action” re‑stages and ...

The fifth Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, themed ...

Imagine opening a book right in the middle, without having read ...

A near-obsessive focus on visibility drives the exhibition architecture ...

Walking through the Chicago Architecture Biennial this year, I found ...

Data visualization has become omnipresent. “diagrams,” an ...

I arrived at Munich’s Pavilion 333 just as the opening speech of ...

Architecture is not just what we see; it is also what we hear, smell and ...

Today, we live in a society guided by science and rationalism. The ...

After layers of space, metal, glass, and, most importantly, reflections ...

In the history of modern architecture, there were certain exhibitions ...

While roadtripping in the US this summer I seemingly saw the same ...

Trees are an emotional matter. To this day, I still feel a twinge of ...

There are certain exhibition topics that always seem to be a sure hit ...

Making exhibitions means choosing with good reason. Here are a five ...

I know from growing up as part of a diaspora that our histories are ...

Have you ever taken a photo of your audio guide? I never had ...

Architectural exhibitions are usually ephemeral events. They are ...

While the European architecture community recently turned its eyes ...

Best missed pavilions (presumably):
🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria. Best one ...

The first time I signed a waiver before entering an exhibition was on ...

“More than Housing” is more than an exhibition. It is the coming ...

How do you display something you can’t see? By showing its ...

The exhibition “Programmed for Hope” at HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm ...

As the first biennial dedicated to design disciplines and one of the ...

In 2001, Ben Stiller delivered probably the most iconic lines ever said ...

I invited my father to the Graham Foundation on a whim to attend ...

“You are our future, if you maintain common sense!” The quote by ...

The landscape of the Landes de Gascogne is characterized by its ...

The river Elbe defines almost everything about the valley of Dresden ...

Remember the Non-Aligned Movement? After the end of the Cold ...

“Cities today are incredibly dull. Part of the reason is because the ...

Satisfyingly self-evident and sufficiently surprising: a museum that ...

The year 1940 may seem like inopportune timing for an exhibition ...

“Driving home for Christmas with a thousand memories”—this is ...

The Electric Op exhibit at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum is not an Op ...

Can architecture sustain democracy? On the occasion of the 50th ...

A red web-surface seeping into the white wall guides us to a red ...

It may be challenging to translate image-based research to fit ...

Burls and ropes and sticks and stones. Wire, tarpaulin, pipes, and ...

Imagine you just touched down on the dust covered, barren surface ...

Let’s just say that “Barbie®: The Exhibition” at the Design Museum in ...

It is a risky yet necessary bet to show the cultural value of digital ...

In 2014, the Korean Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale ...

I walk through a mostly empty courtyard to an 8 story, yellow brick ...

The 1990s are on the verge of being historicized. Today, the transition ...

Pipes and pipelines in architecture are either a pop symbol—the Berlin

The novel Moncada by French writer Robert Merle is a fictious ...

Aside from a slew of mean-spirited reviews there is perhaps nothing ...

The Disney universe has become a universal reference. Loved by ...

I used to work for an institution where the recreation of life-like, full ...

“Is that you on one of these photos? If you don't want to appear in ...

Anyone who claims to be an art lover today is likely familiar with ...

The world’s first biennial where art is only realized as a model, which ...

Each spring, Milano Design Week attracts a colorful crowd of design ...

The latest brick and mortar home of A+D Museum in Los Angeles is ...

A gift is a gesture of generosity, a privilege, an obligation. During ...

In late October 1953 Frank Lloyd Wright had an archway hewn into ...

Salt Galata is a cultural complex in Istanbul that establishes a ...

It is rare that you see an exhibition in which you can’t easily find the ...

Over twenty years ago, we had set our minds on traveling to ...

Chicago can’t let go; not of its widely celebrated architectural ...

In Western Sicily you are surrounded by hills, scattered houses, the ...

You get in for free with a secret code. The day I visit, this tacit ...

Two things are certain: Iwan Baan is widely recognized for his ...

"Every line used to cost something,” my professor sighed over the ...

The Children’s Forest Pavilion is an ongoing inquiry. Here, the woods ...

The fourth Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism was the first ...

The importance of healthcare systems was painfully demonstrated ...

We enter a room with three cabinets of objects. They are stacked by ...

Delving into Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s extensive career, the curators ...

One shouldn’t start a review about an exhibition with the description ...

If Frank Lloyd Wright had gotten his way, you would forever descend ...

For decades, Norman Foster has engraved the world around him ...

A tour of the Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds could be confused ...

This year’s Architecture Biennale focuses on decolonization and ...

The 2023 London Design Biennale’s theme was “The Global Game ...

The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale is the first real post-Covid ...

A witty pun for a title doesn’t guarantee success. But it also doesn’t ...

Architecture commonly makes people think of physical construction ...

Exhibiting locality is a balancing act: Between presentation and ...

We’re all in the same boat. We all want to live in peace. The Cooper ...

Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a Circular Economy explores the ...

Ordinary architecture often has less-than-ordinary stories, and this ...

The Mobile Homestead was Mike Kelley’s largest architecture model ...

It is tempting to look around in any architect’s office. What if you ...

Sitting on a dark grey sofa watching television programs from the ...

They call it object journalism. In a dingy and dark service alley one ...

In the built universe of adolescence classrooms are a fundamental ...

Surprise! Exclaims the Swiss street journal branding one of the paper ...

Art exhibitions possess thoroughly choreographed lifetimes. Aside ...

Personality is what architecture all boils down to. At least, if you ...

Long overdue, the Heidi Bucher retrospective at Haus der Kunst was ...

It would be a nice endeavor to list all the full-size architectures kept ...

Time is the enemy of even the most zealous exhibition fan. Stepping ...

A swastika flag, an American jeep, the sky full of bombers, below the ...

Visiting the 10th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is an ...

A question I think about often is the befuddled response a reporter ...

Sober exhibition design or inventive scenography? Opinions differ ...

The distilled essence of the Arctic midnight sun is a shade of orange ...

Open-air museums make everyday life tangible, particularly for ...

Aside from the quinquennial art festival Documenta, Kassel, a city of ...

The act of erecting a wall in front of another wall is a clear insult. It ...

Stick & Win!, the most creative campaign yet to celebrate “100 Years ...

Only a limited number of museums fall into the very specific ...

Every exhibition has a beginning and an end. At least on paper, in ...

Museums preserve the past and produce disorder. Almost every ...

An exhibition about new additions to an archive? "A dusty cellar and ...

In a fitting analogy to BDSM’s closeted nature to enter the Leather ...

Death awaits in the La Brea Tar Pits; a slow, agonizing death by ...

The show “Grand Tour” at Gallerie d’Italia in Milan is based on a ...

A question I always ask myself when I go to see a show is whether it ...

After two years of the pandemic, “Walk!” at Schirn Kunsthalle in ...

Nine shades of gray: The S AM immerses itself in gray and invites ...

Confession: I have been to the International UFO Museum & ...

No, this is not the Louvre. It is also not Versailles, or the National ...

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