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Who do we Design For?, by Jan Pruszynski.I have recently stumbled upon an article titled “Why you hate contemporary architecture” by Brianna Rennix and Nathan J. Robinson of the “Current Affairs” magazine.…View →
Physical or Intangible?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.While it was carefully kept and restored in 2009 to fit the contemporary standards of energy-efficiency and technical properties, the other two buildings were not as lucky to get honours to the same extent.…View →
Her Drawing, by Alessandro Rognoni & Oliwia Jackowska.However, as mentioned by our interviewee, the exhibition and theses’ focus on the drawing embedded so strongly in the past, left little space to investigate the impacts on the contemporary world of design.…View →
Haunted Landscapes, by Maja Liro.Strolling through contemporary Warsaw is a stark contrast to its post-war foundation.…View →
Hybrid Timber Construction, by Krittika Agarwal.The contextual study of resource availability, innovations in contemporary timber buildings, literature research on timber strucutres and seismic design form the scientific basis of conceptualization of this research.…View →
Guess the Building, by Stefan Gzyl.These in-between spaces are louder and brighter, allowing people to roam freely and enter the rooms in any order they want. 21st century museum of contemporary art. SANAA.…View →
The Archetypal Bias of Scale Figures Catalogs, by Romain Touron.coquette of the small bourgeoisie, surely expressed the archetypes of their time… Simplified, caricatured or stereotypical, scale figures or silhouettes, both popular among students and professionals, are depicting the “mythological figures” of our contemporary…View →
Letting Go Of Enemies In Architecture, by Kevin Lai.As we return our gaze to our contemporary, conversations in the field are commonly confronted with the morality of the practice of architecture as more shed light on the enshrined injustice in the field.…View →
Bnieuws edition 57/03. Published March 2024.Joost Hoepman takes a critical look at the state of contemporary Dutch architecture, responding to Aaron Betsky’s claims that it has become persistently more boring. (page 12).…View →
Bnieuws edition 57/02. Published January 2024.In the newlypublished book, Boer addresses the topic of the contemporary obsession with efficiency and functionality, creating sterile cities that leave no room for spontaneity.…View →
Modernism's Secret in the East, by Badar Haq.It was time for something different that would reflect their identity, characterised by and respecting a culture that had shaped them for centuries, in a contemporary era.…View →
Inscribing Spaces, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.Contemporary land sculptors like Richard Long and Michael Heizer, whose notable works included similar inscription of the land (see a. Line made. by Walking by Long, and.…View →
Cheap or Priceless?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.Recently, such temporary events were actively organised in the former industrial areas of Rīga, introducing unexpected way of using the old factories and port storage houses - as exhibition centres for contemporary art.…View →
Green & Pleasant Land, by Sam Eadington.[Interiors, Buildings, Cities MSc 3/4 projects: Beyond the White Cube 2016/17 and House of Music 2017/18]. was that many of the students were really focused on considering what the role of public architecture might be in response to contemporary society…View →
The INDESEM Archive, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.The contemporary concept of the architect as hero largely results from the architectural, celebrity, ranking system operated within the international design press.…View →
Interview Jan Dierckx: 10 minutes with an architect, by Louisa Hollander.Classic or contemporary? Contemporary, but learning from the classics. Inspirational architect? Norman Foster. Must have architecture tools everyone should have? 3D mouse. Best piece of advice you’ve received?…View →
Talking Spaces, by Federico Ruiz.These may be the reasons why contemporary architects are constantly searching to create successful and meaningful places for dialogue, where all kinds of people can express opinions, confront positions and try to find a common ground.…View →
Anatomy of the Dream, by Jonathan Kaye.This is not an all-encompassing view, as contemporary scientific knowledge acknowledges individual mutations and adaptations which might result in a different way of “seeing.”…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.Our fictions becoming tangible truths depend on realistic conditions, and the challenge appears to be to striking a fine balance between the contemporary 'what we know now' and the unpredictability of the future.…View →
The Art of the Commute, by Alessandro Rognoni.We taught ourselves how to swim in the convoluted sea of metropolitan stimuli, of the internet, of contemporary politics. With these things we are somehow familiar; often we are ignorant to them as well. Careless, but comfortable.…View →
A Lack of Exposure, by Alessandro Rognoni.Nevertheless, the moment a practice wins the Pritzker Price is also one in which images of contemporary architecture migrate from magazines to newspapers, reaching a wider “uninterested” public (the prize is regarded as the “Nobel of architecture”).…View →
If not now, then when?, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren & Gigi Altman.There are two different ways of designing: The design way (creative thinking) in which importance has arisen for the awareness of contemporary problems. And the architectural way in which the need for design comes from the question of functionality.…View →
Art Outside The Box, by Christopher Clarkson.Minus20degree is a contemporary art and architecture exhibition and is now looking for artists in the field of sound art, videoart, performance, theater, installation, or dynamic land art for the 2024 edition.…View →
I Feel Out of Place, by Tuyen Le.The lack of diversity in scale figures has come up as a contemporary issue, some partial explanations for this matter are: people just don’t care, or seeing white-abled human figures equals to a safe/approachable area.…View →
Bnieuws edition 58/01. Published November 2024.Then, we travel to Hong Kong with our pen pal Alicja Jurkowska, losing our way in a maze of corridors and stairwells, revealing how an “Architecture of Entrapment” is the flip side of the enchanting consumerism of the contemporary shopping mall (page…View →