Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, “Readymades Belong to Everyone: Thoughts on Exhibiting Architecture”
Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen are directors of exhibitions at the Institute…
Topic Art Practices
Among the remarkable developments in contemporary culture has been the convergence of practices that once unambiguously belonged to art or design but which today happily share methods, means, and concerns.
James Sloss Ackerman Memorial Lecture: Guido Beltramini
This lecture, in memorium of James Sloss Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Art…
Hicham Khalidi
Hicham Khalidi (MA, 1972) is currently the director of…
Philip Ursprung, “Bauhaus Bashing: Looking Back and Looking Ahead”
For the 100th birthday of Bauhaus, the German State supports two new…
At Therme Forum, John May considers the balance of localism and globalism as designers envision the city of the future
From left to right: Jon Gray, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Lonneke Gordjin, Alexander Groves,…
Cyberfeminism Catalog 1990–2020
by Malinda Seu (MDes ’19) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize This is…
Kuehn Malvezzi on liberating institutional design from all that is “dark, serious, and deeply moral”
This spring, Berlin-based architects Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, and Simona Malvezzi asked…
What we think we know about architecture: A conversation with Sharon Johnston
Unsettled ground is familiar territory to Sharon Johnston. Her firm with partner…
Thing Tank exhibition imagines a parallel history of 20th-century Italian industrial design
“Often research in design involves going to Google Images and looking at a page of…
Vanishing Soundscapes is a stark but beautiful reminder of the fragility of the urban soundscape
According to a recent report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform…