Magazin

Lynnette Widder | 09.12.2025

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This month gta Verlag is publishing Values and Surfaces: Art, Economy, Architecture, the English translation and expansion of a collection of essays by art and architectural historian Philip Ursprung first published in German in 2017. Lynnette Widder, architect and professor at Columbia...


John Hill | 24.11.2025

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The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.


World-Architects Editors | 18.11.2025

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The Zumtobel Group supports the EUmies Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for architects worldwide. Isabel Zumtobel explains why she is convinced of the importance of this commitment and why promoting young talent is particularly close to her heart.


John Hill | 06.11.2025

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A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...


John Hill | 16.10.2025

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The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.


John Hill | 27.09.2025

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The latest book by Herman Hertzberger—and “most likely my last,” in his words—is Herman Hertzberger, Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959–2025, published earlier this year by Rotterdam- and Montreal-based Maas Lawrence. World-Architects delves into the career-spanning book that is part...


John Hill | 21.09.2025

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The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2025 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 7.


John Hill | 28.08.2025

Found

Temporary Tecture: Structures of Necessity is a new book from KOSMOS, an architectural practice with offices in Zurich and Graz, that is filled with photographs that “[offer] a fresh and compelling perspective on the often-overlooked world of temporary infrastructure.” Take a look...


John Hill | 26.06.2025

Film

Jim Cutler, principal at Bainbridge, Washington's Cutler Anderson Architects, gives Architectural Digest a tour of a now 12-year-old house in Newberg, Oregon, that he designed so it is one with the old pond that it straddles.


Madeline Beach Carey | 25.06.2025

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Although “summer reads” have been a thing for a long time, books about architecture don’t tend to populate lists of books to be taken on holiday. Most architecture books are big and heavy, academic rather than narrative. Novels with strong architectural elements strike a good balance, and in...


Antonio La Gioia | 11.06.2025

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On June 6, the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI) ceremony was held at the Paranimf of the Escola Industrial de Barcelona. This seventh edition has consolidated the award as a benchmark in Europe for the conservation, rehabilitation, and revitalization of...


Madeline Beach Carey | 20.05.2025

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Eileen Gray's famous Villa E-1027, a modern masterpiece in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, is the subject of no fewer than three architecture monographs, as well as a graphic novel, a feature-length film, and a novel. The novel is


John Hill | 07.05.2025

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Four days ahead of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition opening to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale opened Margherissima, a Special Project at Forte Marghera in Mestre. The project, designed by Nigel Coates and students from the Architectural Association in London,...


John Hill | 01.05.2025

Found

Liliane Wong, an architect in Massachusetts and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is the author of two recent books on the architecture of adaptive reuse, both published by Birkhäuser. Here, we take a look inside the revised and expanded edition of Adaptive Reuse:...


John Hill | 22.04.2025

Film

A new video from Architectural Digest finds New York architect Michael Wyetzner delving into the Constructivist-inspired design process of Zaha Hadid—from her thesis at the Architectural Association and competition-winning entry for The Peak in Hong Kong, to MAXXI in Rome, the Contemporary...


Madeline Beach Carey | 08.04.2025

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Habitat is the debut novel of Catriona Shine, an architect who grew up in Ireland and now works in Oslo, and the latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series that looks at works of fiction with architectural themes. The novel follows seven neighbors living in an...


John Hill | 03.04.2025

Film

Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.


John Hill | 15.03.2025

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The finalists in the second DIVIA Award—the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture—have been announced: seven women architects in more than six countries on four continents.


Eduard Kögel | 11.03.2025

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Peter Cachola Schmal has been at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main since 2000, where the trained architect has been director since 2006. After 25 years and before his tenure ends in summer 2027, it is time to take stock of his work at the DAM.


Eduard Kögel | 19.02.2025

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Similar to his earlier book on Hong Kong, Walter Koditek has trained his camera on the facades of modernist buildings in Bangkok, compiling them into the recently published Bangkok Modern: Architecture of the 1950s–1970s. Architectural eye candy, or serious scholarship on overlooked...


John Hill | 11.02.2025

Found

Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...


John Hill | 03.02.2025

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The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.


John Hill | 28.01.2025

Found

Outpost Office, the practice founded by architects and educators Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, have installed Color Block No. 2 at various in-between spaces both outside and within the Wexner...


John Hill | 21.01.2025

Film

Every two years The Daylight Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture through two awards: one in architecture and one in research. A one-hour conversation between architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa and neuroscientist Selma Tir, presented by The Daylight...


John Hill | 14.01.2025

Film

Beatriz Ramo, architect at STAR strategies + architecture, gives Architectural Digest a tour of The Cabanon, the 74-square-foot (6.9-m2) apartment in Rotterdam she...


Lynnette Widder | 13.01.2025

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Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets, Walking the Projects proposes the theory that, “in the 1960s, a new ideology emerged in New York. It held that cities thrived through the spontaneous ‘ballet of the streets’ and died when the state erected sterile projects.” This premise is then...


John Hill | 13.12.2024

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The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries. 


Madeline Beach Carey | 11.12.2024

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The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....


John Hill | 26.11.2024

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The recipients of the 35th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 23, 2024, during the 41st Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.


John Hill | 22.11.2024

Insight

Take a tour through the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village via a new book from Dominique Perrault, A Village and its Double: Urban Planning Manual: Olympic and ParalympicGames, Paris 2024. Published by Actar, the 800-page book is an urban manual that is the antithesis of other...


Elias Baumgarten | 18.11.2024

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With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.


John Hill, Elias Baumgarten | 13.11.2024

Film

The first conference organized by Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) brought together international experts, researchers, practicing women architects, and students to “explore diversity and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities women face in architecture.” A recording of the November...


12.11.2024

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The City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and DekaBank have announced the winner of the International High-Rise Award 2024/25: CapitaSpring, a mixed-use tower in Singapore designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati.


John Hill | 06.11.2024

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The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.


John Hill | 01.11.2024

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During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future...


John Hill | 18.10.2024

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The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2024, selecting the ten best architecture books from 170 submissions from 74 publishers.