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We live in an age of intellectual simplification: complex interrelationships are reduced to slogans and black-and-white narratives—even in architecture. Aita Flury offers a counterpoint with her book Reprise.
In a professional context that still equates identity with formal language, the work of L35 shifts the focus from style to method. With nearly six decades of experience and a practice that spans diverse regions, the firm has built its strength not on the repetition of solutions, but on a way...
Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture is the third book by architect and educator José Aragüez. Published in 2025, the book follows The Building (2016) and Spatial Infrastructure (2022). In it, Aragüez analyzes the work of three figures whose hybrid...
World-Architects speaks to Dr. George Arbid, a Lebanese architect, researcher, and curator of the latest Sharjah Architecture Triennial archival exhibition, showcasing historic architectural materials from Baghdad, Damascus, and Tunis until July 2026.
The Storefront for Art and Architecture has named DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, the art/architecture practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, as the inaugural recipient of the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture, which recognizes practitioners working at the...
Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds, on display at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, is billed as “the first major US exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), the visionary architect, designer, and theorist who redefined the Gothic past for the modern age.”...
While the theme for Earth Day 2026 is “Our Power, Our Planet,” our thoughts are focused on water, sparked by reading some of the case studies in Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology, the latest book by designer, author, and advocate Julia Watson.
At b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, architecture begins, not with a form, but with a stance. In contrast to the inertia of a discipline often defined by style, the firm insists on a different approach: designing requires understanding, questioning, and taking direct responsibility for the city...
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With his firm Scenic Architecture Office, and in collaboration with Tongji Architectural Design Group, Zhu Xiaofeng won the competition to design the Wave Cube science fiction museum in a suburb of Shanghai. The museum is located in the Fengxian District, one of five new districts along the...
Chinese architect Xu Tiantian is the subject of the latest architecture-related video from Louisiana Channel. In “Beauty in Itself Is Dangerous,” she speaks about the architectural acupuncture approach carried out by her Beijing firm,
Spanish-Architects visited the shared Barcelona studio of architects Mariona Benedito and Bayona Valero Architects Associates ahead of them hosting the second installment of Architecture Studio...
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 55th laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Here we take a photographic tour of seven of Radić's buildings, looking at them from the outside before heading inside to discover the often unexpected qualities of space and light that...
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In addition to the replacement of a five-story parking garage, the recently completed Springfield Civic Center and CarPark in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, also encompasses a new civic plaza and a pedestrian lane that was created by closing a street between the garage and the convention...
For the first time in more than sixty years, Otto Wagner's work is being exhibited in Germany. The drawings by the architect and his colleagues, some of whom are well-known, bear witness to the great leap from historicism to modernism at the turn of the last century.
Two recent books co-published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König with Accattone and Architecture Curating Practice present the Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture and the ideas of its architect, Francesca Torzo. Here, we take a look inside the two books.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the events, grand openings, and book releases that are planned to unfold over the next twelve months. Here we present 26 things to look forward to in 2026 in four categories: biennials and triennials, exhibitions, museum...
Take a look back at 2025 as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last twelve months. Instead of a chronological presentation, here we link to 35 articles in 9 categories: Awards, Books, Brutalism, Exhibitions, Films, Interviews,...
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...
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
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Sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, Neuhoff is a large mixed-use development consisting of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments in a mix of new construction and converted old buildings that hark back to...
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
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.
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...
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...
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
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...
The fourth European Conference on Architecture & the Media took place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 26 and 27. Videos of the two-day conference are now on YouTube, and here we highlight two of the roundtables that gathered journalists to speak about the role of...
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
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
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:...
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...
Andreas Ruby built the Swiss Architecture Museum into a platform for discourse. An advocate of the Swiss architecture scene, he increased the number of visitors to the Basel museum by 33 percent. After ten years, he is stepping down as director.
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopens on March 29, 2025, following a multi-year restoration. The most important work in this latest phase of the building's ongoing...
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An empty one-story dentist's office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, about five miles northwest of the Loop, has been transformed into the two-story home for a boutique furniture studio. A workshop and showroom for Nothing Design Company sits behind the screen-like brick facade, no...
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
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...