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French architect Bernard Tschumi's Parc de la Villette in Paris is one of the earliest and most influential deconstructivist projects.

Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion, a newish volume edited by Space Caviar, is provocative and timely in a way that much contemporary architecture writing just isn’t.

I DIDN'T KNOW Dan Graham well. I met him a handful of times in the mid-2000s when I was a graduate student at Princeton University. I wanted to write my dissertation on Dan, but I was too young and too terrified to do it. Once, when I met him in his loft on New York’s Spring Street, he threw a fit because I didn’t know the work of the Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa. I was wet behind the ears and couldn’t find my angle—I was too sympathetic to his position, which was at once arde...

Book covers to celebrate varying shades of pink.

New Zealand-born architect, author and scholar Mark Wigley will join the Stuckeman School and the Department of Architecture remotely at 6 p.m. on Oct. 6 as part of the School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series. The event is free and open to the public and will be broadcast by WPSU.

The 13th Shanghai Biennale announces participants for main exhibition Feliciano Centurión, Untitled, 1994, oil on canvas, 164 x 217 cm. Private Collection. SHANGHAI .- The Power Station of Art announced the culmination of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. Its main exhibition PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION opens on April 17, 2021, with 64 participating artists presenting projects, including 33 new commissions, presented at the PSA and other venues across Shanghai. To challenge the tradition...

Power Station of Art announces the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale “The flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves.” —Astrida Neimanis SHANGHAI .- The Power Station of Art announced the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. For the first time, the biennale will unfold as an in crescendo project. Challenging the usual art biennale format, it is the first stage of an eight-month extend...