So don’t ex­pect any ar­chi­tec­tural ex­per­i­ments in Berlin, ex­cept for the Dutch Em­bassy by OMA and the Jew­ish Mu­seum by Daniel Libe­skind. What you will find is tidy, straight­for­ward de­vel­op­ment that re­spects the build­ing lines. Lu…

While 2007 was some­thing of a tran­si­tional year that looked to the past with big, largely tra­di­tional ex­hi­bi­tions on Le Cor­busier and Cuypers, the NAi is def­i­nitely look­ing to the fu­ture in 2008. In ad­di­tion to the NAi’s in­sti­tu­t…

Roe­mer van Toorn in­tro­duced Dubai with a quote from the Amer­i­can writer Mike Davis. In his ar­ti­cle ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’ (New Left Re­view, 2006), Davis writes that Dubai is one big gated com­mu­nity, a neo-liberal dream turned real int…

The tem­po­rary pavil­ion on the grass in front of the Ser­pen­tine Gallery is an ar­chi­tec­ture ex­hi­bi­tion of the 1:1 va­ri­ety. It’s no rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the form of draw­ings or mod­els but a real build­ing in which the architect’s in­t…

The LACMA is a com­plex of dif­fer­ent build­ings. In the last 36 years the mu­seum grad­u­ally ex­panded with new build­ings or ad­di­tions to ex­ist­ing build­ings. The architects' man­date was to trans­form the many build­ings into a co­he­sive…

Peter Green­away (1942) is best known for such films as The Belly of an Ar­chi­tect, Drown­ing by Num­bers, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and Pil­low Book. In ad­di­tion, he has worked on op­eras, he wrot…