Designer and dreamer: Zaha Hadid
Jason Sayer2022-07-01T20:48:24+01:00Two exhibitions in London showcase Zaha Hadid's design work and early visions for the city.
Two exhibitions in London showcase Zaha Hadid's design work and early visions for the city.
Tom dePaor's enigmatic retrospective at Carlow's VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art captures the spirit of a practice that defies categorisation and refuses to be pinned down.
For cultural critic Yuki Sumner, the work of Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi is a reminder that the best designers are inspired by travel, life experience and a willingness to step outside their comfort zone.
Will Alsop’s 2005 proposals for a coast-to-coast northern SuperCity may have seemed a stretch of the imagination but many of its ideas are very relevant today, argues Chris Williamson of Weston Williamson + Partners.
Studio MUTT has completed a striking fashion exhibition at London’s V&A Museum
Interview The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is staging an exhibition on the work of architect Anupama Kundoo. In an interview for the catalogue, Martha Thorne talks to her about technology, design methods and life in a utopian community
Exhibition New drawings and painted furniture on show at London architecture gallery
Events
Digital events have allowed the continuation of cultural life during lockdown, but will we want them when it’s over, asks Ruth Lang?
Exhibition
Betts Project stages a show of drawings by architect Peter Wilson
History
Furniture designed by the writer Curzio Malaparte for his celebrated house on Capri is now going into limited production, and exhibited at London’s Gagosian Gallery. The richly symbolic pieces can be seen as temples to domestic rituals within an interior classical landscape, says Robin Monotti Graziadei.
Exhibition
Within Sir John Soane's Museum artists Langlands & Bell reflect upon architecture's capacity to bear witness to the relationships that define society
Envelope
A new exhibition reflects a rebirth of interest in stone as a sustainable, beautiful and inexpensive structural material, say curators Amin Taha, Steve Webb and Pierre Bidaud