– The second Art Brut Biennale Architectures in Lausanne presents a range of works – some of which have never before gone on display – focused on the theme of construction.

– The Eames show in Britain is not so much just a re-run 15 years on from the last exhibition. Rather, it is a possibility to reconsider the attention with which British architectural culture of the late twentieth century has observed, commented, and made its own, the work of the two American designers.

– On view in London, “Radical Disco” is an exploration on the relationship between avant-garde architecture and nightlife in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.

– Unlike many other retrospectives on Renzo Piano’s work, the exhibition at La Cité de l’Architecture clarifies the process leading to the realisation of his visions.

– “Re-Living the City”, sixth edition of Shenzhen’s architecture and urbanism biennale opened on December 4. Aaron Betsky recounts “his” biennale and the crucial topics of the city’s future.

– One of a series of annual tributes to private collecting featuring international figures held by Maison Rouge, Arthur Walther’s photograph collection is among the most significant and striking in existence.

– In Tunis, the fifth multidisciplinary biennial of contemporary art in public space broadened the debate on the role of art in a country that is still seeking its full identity.

– The rooms of the Madre museum contain a string of seductive and pointed transfigurations in works, by British artist Mark Leckey, that are faultlessly topical comments on how objects foster desire via the way they are represented.

– At Somerset House a variety of international artists, designers and innovators show how the data explosion is transforming our world in the exhibition “Big Bang Data”.

– In New York, eight monumental sculptures by Eduardo Chillida cover all the themes of the great Spanish master and presents works in his favourite materials such as steel, granite and alabaster.