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The Graduate(s) - European Design Talent Selected by Lidewij Edelkoort for Carpenters Workshop Gallery
4 - 23 September '17
Carpenters Workshop Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with design curator Lidewij Edelkoort to highlight young talent gathered from Europe's best design schools. The exhibition by Carpenters' London gallery in Mayfair is offering a platform to graduates as a steppingstone to promoting and producing their work.
Ettore Sottsass – Rebel and Poet at Vitra Design Museum
14 July - 24 September '17
This year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday: the Austro-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), one of the most influential and unconventional figures in twentieth-century design. He gained renown with his designs for the office equipment manufacturer Olivetti, for his poetic, minimalist sculptural objects, and as the leading figure of the Memphis design collective in the 1980s.
Soft Shrinking Tremor by Gabriele Beveridge at Parisian Laundry
8 September - 7 October '17
Gabriele Beveridge's first solo exhibition with Parisian Laundry, the London-based artist presents Soft Shrinking Tremor. Here, Beveridge assembles found objects and images with newly fashioned parts that subtly evoke the tactual and evanescent contact between the body and the accessories and processes that serve to embellish it.
'The architecture degree will be the law degree of the 21st century': A conversation with Woodbury's Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter
So far this year in Building Type we've interviewed the outgoing heads of the architecture programs at UCLA (Hitoshi Abe) and USC (Qinyun Ma) and the incoming dean at USC (Milton Curry). This week we sit down with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, an architect who was named dean of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University earlier this year. What follows has been edited and condensed.
Gestalt by Fos
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Gestalt is an overview of the diverse artistic practice of Fos, who's works explore how the language of objects and space define us as social beings. The book sits somewhere between a monograph and an artist book, with 12 years of works collected into an organic flow which document but also re-interpret and re-contextualise the objects and spaces which accumulate to form his practice.
chromatic sequences » by Hella Jongerius at Galerie kreo
Galerie kreo is delighted to present « chromatic sequences », a selection of exceptio- nal pieces by Hella Jongerius.
The show features distinctive works by the in uential Dutch designer which highlight her masterful use and understanding of colours, materials and light. This show runs alongside the « Breathing Colour » exhibition at the Design Museum, London.
How to Sell a Frank Lloyd Wright House
In mid-September, Frank Lloyd Wright aficionados are expected by the busload in New Canaan, Conn., passing through a gate with the name "Tirranna" carved into the metalwork, to tour a 6,917-square-foot hemicycle house largely designed by America's master architect.
'Shapes of Color' at Galerie VIVID
28 July - 3 September '17
The Galerie VIVID Summer exhibition showcases a broad variety of the use of color in design, art and archtecture and travels through the 20th century to today.
How to Grow a Chair: An Interview with Richard Reames
Using ancient grafting techniques and a few basic tools, Richard Reames shapes living trees into furniture and sculpture near his ho­me in Oregon for clients worldwide.
Mathias Bengtsson's first show in France 'Growth' at Galerie Maria Wettergren
15 September - 25 November '17
In 2010, the Danish artist and designer Mathias Bengtsson pushed the limits of artistic creation by inventing a software system, making it possible to grow forms from a digital seed, analogous to living organisms. In 2016, six years later, the Centre Pompidou had purchased his masterpiece, the Growth Table Titanium, a 3D printed masterpiece and the fruit of this new algorithmic technology.
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured.
Drawing Ambience. Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association at Museum for Architectural Drawing
8 July - 24 September
The exhibition Drawing Ambience. Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association presents around 50 masterworks of contemporary architectural drawings penned by celebrated architects and assembled by the long-term chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, Alvin Boyarsky.
When Is the Digital in Architecture?
Contributions by Stan Allen, Phil Bernstein, Nathalie Bredella, Mario Carpo, Wolfgang Ernst, Marco Frascari, Peter Galison, Orit Halpern, Greg Lynn, Antoine Picon, Molly Wright Steenson, Bernard Tschumi, Mark Wigley, Andrew Witt
Bring me sunshine: the designers being briefed to create a happier planet
This week saw the publication of the 2017 Global Emotions Report, an ambitious survey of the global mood. To compile it, Gallup conducted in-depth interviews with nearly 150,000 people in 142 countries. The report seeks to measure positive and negative daily experiences by asking people to rate their previous day. "Did you feel well rested yesterday? Were you treated with respect all day?
Ace Hotel London and Modern Design Review Present the Third Edition of Ready Made Go During London Design Festival 2017
19 - 27 September '17
Ready Made Go returns to Ace Hotel London for its third edition during London Design Festival this September. Curated by Laura Houseley of Modern Design Review magazine, the exhibition will launch a series of specially commissioned products by London-based designers. The objects range from ceramics to furniture and all are for permanent use in Ace Hotel London.