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Adhocracy: the third industrial revolution
 

Adhocracy: the third industrial revolution

An exhibition at the New Museum offers a collection of signals that point toward the range of new social, political, economic, and artistic possibilities generated by new modes of production.

 

Design / Nicola Twilley

Critical Spatial Practice
 

Critical Spatial Practice

In the Critical Spatial Practice book series, editors Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen construct a larger discursive foundation about how space can be interpreted as a political medium within which action can take place.

 

Reviews / Nick Axel

New life for the pioneers

Curated by Marco De Michelis, the "La Città Nuova: Oltre Sant’Elia" exhibition invades Como's historical Villa Olmo, shedding light on a century of visionary urban designs by artists and architects.

 

Architecture / Manuel Orazi

A Mobile Cinema in Chinatown
 

A Mobile Cinema in Chinatown

In their latest project, architecture collective Parasite 2.0 generates a point of convergence for Paolo Sarpi's distinct ethnic groups, whose film cultures share a highly developed aesthetic iconology.

 

Architecture / Tamar Shafrir

Archaeology of the Digital
 

Archaeology of the Digital

Curated by Greg Lynn, an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture is the first to put together a nuanced account of the complex ecosystem that spawned the digital architecture we see all around us today.

 

Architecture / Matthew Allen

Le Vent des Forêts

Part of an ambitious contemporary art programme in a verdant forest in the heart of Lorraine, Matali Crasset's new woodland houses allow visitors to live and enjoy nature with minimal impact.

 

Architecture / Ivo Bonacorsi

Hello World
 

Hello World

Hello World is Alice Rawsthorn’s latest chapter in her campaign for the culture of design to be recognised broadly as a cornerstone of society, and not only within design-related circles.

 

Reviews / Joseph Grima

An immaterial dialogue
 

An immaterial dialogue

In Mouans Sartoux, the Espace de l'Art Concret explores the collaboration between artist Yves Klein and architect Claude Parent: from the deconstruction of the architectural language to a mausoleum for Klein created by Parent.

 

Art / Emanuele Piccardo

A thousand platforms

Triggering dialogue through dance, choreography, performance, arte, image in movement and music, the second edition of the Bologna Live Arts Week produced a great flux of proposals that generate new associations and interruptions.

 

Art / Filipa Ramos

Oil and post-oil
 

Oil and post-oil

Presenting visions by Sou Fujimoto, IAN+, Noero Architects and MODUS Architects, Rome's MAXXI museum takes another step forward in facing the most pressing issues of our times: the relationship between energy and landscape.

 

Architecture / Marialuisa Palumbo

Ricciotti, architect
 

Ricciotti, architect

The French architect's retrospective at the Cité de l’Architecture is all about images. The only exception are Ricciotti’s prototypes or “testimonies to the memory of the work”: impressive, instructive and intriguing.

 

Architecture / Léa Catherine Szacka

Under the bonnet of the Internet

“Chrome Web Lab”, an interactive exhibit at the London Science Museum, presents the invisible fabric of the Internet as embodied in the world. Rory Hyde spoke to its creators, and discovers a version of where the Web may be headed next.

 

Design / Rory Hyde