World Exhibition

In an in­ter­view with The Guar­dian to co­in­cide with the ex­hi­bi­tion, Rem Kool­haas was asked how OMA had ma­na­ged to main­tain its cri­ti­cal po­si­tion over the years. To which he an­s­we­red: 'I am a cri­ti­cism ma­chine mys­elf, a…

Ac­cor­ding to the ex­hi­bi­tion or­ga­nisers, both ci­ties are in­cre­a­sin­gly fa­c­ing a my­riad of con­flicts: shor­tage of hou­sing, a lack of pu­blic green space, out­da­ted in­fra­struc­ture, pol­lu­ted air and trou­ble­some food pro­duc­ti…

Under the title The Knight’s Move, the Stroom centre for art and ar­chi­tec­ture in The Hague is pre­sen­ting ar­tists, thin­kers and ar­chi­tects who dis­tin­gu­ish them­sel­ves from others through unusual, en­ligh­ten­ing and in­s­pi­ring…

A swipe from the Bri­tish his­to­rian Ban­ham seems to have been one of the fac­tors that de­ter­mi­ned the di­rec­tion of the Rietveld’s Uni­verse pro­ject. For it was Ban­ham who asked how it was pos­si­ble that an 'unremarkable, provincial' fi­…

Sound has crop­ped up as a theme on many ar­chi­tec­ture agen­das re­cently. Over the past months the Arcam ar­chi­tec­ture centre in Ams­ter­dam has hosted an ex­hi­bi­tion about sound, and the Ams­ter­dam Aca­demy of Ar­chi­tec­ture or­ga­nised …

The func­tion of music
Though so­mew­hat sul­len and prone to ma­king gran­diose pro­noun­ce­ments, Renaat Braem (1910-2001) would no doubt have been amu­sed that the opening of a re­tro­spec­tive on his work co­in­ci­ded with a lec­tur…

Dirk van den Heu­vel:

The Bri­tish Pa­vi­lion
The na­tio­nal pre­sen­ta­ti­ons in the Gi­ar­dini make the Bi­en­nale an unusually cu­rious fair in which na­tio­nal iden­tity and ar­chi­tec­ture not al­ways go ea­sily hand in ha…