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BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group's contribution to Carlo Ratti's Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective. at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale features four wooden beams with intricate carvings made from a collaboration between traditional craftsmen and robots. A short film...
ELEMENTAL, the Chilean practice of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Araveno, has three pieces on display during the six-month run of the Venice Architecture Biennale: an installation in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – Intelligens: Natural. Artificial....
Louisiana Channel has followed architect Søren Pihlmann's restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale since its inception, documenting the process in a just-released 15-minute film. In Make Materials Matter, Pihlmann explains how materials drive the process, and...
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles landscape architect Kate Orff, founding principal of SCAPE and professor at Columbia University. Speaking in SCAPE's Lower Manhattan studio, Orff discusses her background, what drew her to landscape architecture,...
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...
In a new five-minute video, design principals Marianne Kwok and Brian Girard lead a walkthrough of KPF's recently renovated New York City office, which occupies a full floor in a 1920s commercial building across the street from Bryant Park and the firm's own
Open since April 3, Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the Mind is on display at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture in New York City until June 7, 2025. The exhibition features a selection of Sergei Tchoban's fantastical drawings plus a half-hour interview between the Berlin...
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.
In a short film from The Dialogues Design Directory, architect Sanjay Puri explains—in words and drawings—his stepwell-inspired redesign of a 200-year-old Shiva temple in Nokha, Rajasthan, India.
The demolition of old buildings remains commonplace, but the European Citizens' Initiative HouseEurope has great potential to change this: If enough signatures are collected, legislation could be made more conversion-friendly across Europe.
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...
Three years after it opened to the public, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto finally visits the House of Music Hungary he designed for Budapests's City Park, as documented in a video just released by Liget Budapest.
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
Open Space, the studio dedicated to “preserving and portraying the essence of architecture through the medium of film,” visits the Judy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. more than fifty years ago. Tim and Vanessa Hills give viewers a tour of the Japanese-inspired...
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...
As part of a recent TEDx event in Fargo, North Dakota, Craig Dykers presents Snøhetta's design process for the competition-winning design of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library now under construction in the Dakota Badlands.
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A...
Spirit of Space takes a peak-fall-foliage visit to architect Steven Holl's off-grid Watercolor Hut on his ‘T’ Space campus in Rhinebeck, New York, to speak with the architect about his working process, the quiet focus the hut enables, and even the tools he paints with.
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features a 20-minute interview with Spanish architect Rafael Moneo at his studio in Madrid.
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...
London's Royal Academy of Arts has released a 17-minute film presenting the collaborative social housing projects in Mallorca developed by Cris Ballester Parets,
In the latest episode of Momentum, a new series from Bloomberg Originals, host Haslina Amin speaks with architects in Seoul to learn about architecture in Korea and explore how the country's contemporary architecture may be “its next big thing.”
Joseph Rykwert, the esteemed architectural historian and recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on October 18, 2024 at the age of 98. Here we present two video interviews — one from 2020 and one from 2017 — in which Rkywert recounts certain formative events of his life.
The latest video by Vancouver-based architect and YouTuber Dami Lee pits a trio of architects against AI tools in a design battle, a rematch of a similar battle she made last year. Artificial intelligence has advanced made rapid advances in the ensuing months, so the results of the new...
Ahead of the crowning of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024, aka “the UK's best new building,” on the evening of October 16, the Royal Institute of British Architects has released short films on each of the six shortlisted projects.
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with architect Liz Diller in the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on New York's West Side, not far from the practice's breakout project, the High Line.
Back in May, on the UNESCO International Day of Light, the 2024 Daylight Awards were awarded to Alberto Camp Baeza and Till Roenneber, respectively in the architecture and research categories. The Daylight Award has released videos of their ten-minute award lectures.
As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos.
Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video.
Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung spoke at TED Salon: The Rockefeller Foundation in May about how building facades can be active contributors to urban life and public health, presenting proposals developed by her firm DOSU Studio Architecture.
The latest architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).
Watch a trailer for Green Over Gray – Emilio Ambasz, a documentary that explores the revolution in green architecture through four projects designed by Emilio Ambasz, including the terraced ACROS Building in Fukuoka, Japan. The film is being shown at numerous film festivals this year.
The latest video from Stewart Hicks takes a deep dive into 400 Lake Shore, a pair of skyscrapers that recently broke ground in Chicago, focusing on how the architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill developed the form of the skyscrapers to address wind forces.
Les Matérialistes is a short documentary film produced by Architecture Without Borders Quebec, Dark Matter Labs, Les Interstices, and RECYC-QUÉBEC about the titular participatory futurist pilot project that is focused on the circular economy of construction materials in Quebec.
The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in...