Germany

Germany woke up to the bold, sim­ple bril­li­ance of David Chip­per­field a long time ago. Is Bri­tain fi­nally catching on?

Put sim­ply, some cri­tics pro­pa­gate a pre­fe­rence for modern-looking mos­ques wi­thout em­bellish­ments; cu­po­las and mi­na­rets are de­emed su­per­fluous be­cause they are out of sync with the cli­mate or tech­no­logy of their new sur­roun­ding…

The new fa­culty buil­ding for the Luigi Boc­coni Uni­ver­sity in Milan, de­si­gned by the Irish prac­tice Graf­ton Ar­chi­tects, has won the first World Buil­ding of the Year Award at the World Ar­chi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val in Bar­ce­lona. It was selec…

Gas pipe You can’t be clear en­ough when ma­king a po­li­ti­cal state­ment at a cir­cus like the bi­en­nale, as the tiny coun­try of Es­to­nia un­der­stands all too well. In re­s­ponse to con­tro­ver­sial plans by Gaz­prom for a pipe­line bet­ween Ru…

The RIBA Na­tio­nal and In­ter­na­tio­nal Awards were an­noun­ced on June 27th. The final short­list for the £20,000 Stir­ling Prize which in­clu­des the RIBA Na­tio­nal Awar­dees will be an­noun­ced on July 17th, and the win­ner on Oc­to­ber 11, 200…

In this ar­ti­cle, I try to take se­riously Jencks’s re­mark that cul­ture should find an ico­no­gra­phic lan­guage to con­nect us to the uni­verse. Jencks’s lec­tu­res, an­s­wers and gar­dens seem to re­sem­ble the cosmos when it comes to be­gin­nin…

Brazil its­elf is present ever­yw­here at the Bi­en­nale with a posse of ar­chi­tects around the Pritz­ker Prize win­ners Nie­meyer and da Rocha. Eu­rope is po­orly re­pre­sen­ted. Other parts of the world are lar­gely ab­sent, apart from South Af­ri…

Prof. Ir. Kees Chris­tia­anse (1953) stu­died Ar­chi­tec­ture at the Delft Uni­ver­sity of Tech­no­logy. Bet­ween 1980 and 1989, Chris­tia­anse worked for the Of­fice for Me­tro­po­li­tan Ar­chi­tec­ture in Rot­ter­dam, be­co­m­ing a part­ner in 1983…

Cincinnati Art Mu­seum An­noun­ces Short List of Ar­chi­tects­The Board of the Cin­cin­nati Art Mu­seum an­noun­ced the short list of ar­chi­tec­ture firms selec­ted as can­di­da­tes to work with the Mu­seum on the de­ve­lop­ment of a new de­sign and…

‘André was born in 1968, I in 1971 – that’s why.’ This is prize-winner Oli­ver Thill’s la­co­nic reply to the sug­ges­tion that sta­tu­tory re­a­sons alone meant that the Maas­kant Prize was awar­ded to him per­so­nally – win­ners must be aged 35 yea…

The tour, which lasts two years, star­ted in Aus­tria in 2004 with the pre­sen­ta­tion of ele­ven ar­chi­tec­ture firms and will fi­nish with 99 par­ti­ci­pa­ting of­fices. The Nether­lands is the fifth coun­try on the tour iti­nerary. The name given…

The re­s­ponse grows every edi­tion. With par­ti­ci­pants from 67 dif­fe­rent coun­tries from all con­ti­nents the event dis­plays a uni­que in­sight of trends in de­sign and ideas about edu­ca­tion.The jury (Ian Gil­zean, Hi­to­shi Abe, Zvi Efrat, G…

An im­portant event in the project is an in­ter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tion to ge­ne­rate ideas for tack­ling the pro­blems in the for­mer GDR. Some ci­ties in eas­tern Ger­many are star­ting to shrink as a re­sult of mi­gra­tion to re­gi­ons in the we…

Alex van de Beld (Onix)Thursday eve­ning, Oc­to­ber 21 After ar­ri­val in Rot­ter­dam and che­cking into the schoo­ners (boats) where we would spend the next three days, the young Eu­ro­pean ar­chi­tects got tal­king to one ano­ther strai­ght away. T…

The first ar­chi­tect men­tio­ned by name in the his­tory books - as we learn in ar­chi­tec­ture clas­ses - is Da­e­da­lus. He it was who de­si­gned the la­by­rinth for King Minos in Crete (1700-1400 BC). Yet there is ano­ther can­di­date: Be­zalel B…