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Call for Applications Opens for the U.S. Pavilion at Venice’s 2023 Architecture Biennale

The 18th international biennale exhibition, curated by Lesley Lokko, will run from May to November of 2023

February 18, 2022

The competition to create the U.S. Pavilion at next year’s architecture biennale is open only to non profits and educational organizations.

At the Super Bowl, Designer Es Devlin and Dr. Dre Celebrate the Architectural Culture of Compton

The halftime show set featured landmarks of Los Angeles music history

Deane Madsen

February 17, 2022

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The British designer and Dr. Dre highlighted notable architectural landmarks including the Compton Courthouse and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial of Harold Williams's 1977 Compton Civic Center.

February 2022 Editor's Letter: More Than Meets the Eye

February 17, 2022

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Three late great thinkers expanded contemporary ideas of how societies can thrive.

For France’s Sciences Po, Moreau Kusunoki Inserts a Glassy Pavilion into a Historic Monastery

The historic school's brand new Paris campus opened in January

Andrew Ayers

February 16, 2022

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The campus's inauguration has allowed Sciences Po to concentrate its research activities and newer diploma programs at a single site.

AIA Announces Winners of 2022 Architecture Awards

Izzy Kornblatt Pansy Schulman

February 15, 2022

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The winners of the AIA’s 2022 Architecture Awards span from the modernization of Seattle’s Space Needle to a high school in suburban Massachusetts to the new U.S. embassy in London.

SHoP Drops Historic Union Bid But Labor Efforts Continue

Pansy Schulman

February 14, 2022

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Architectural Workers United has announced that they are withdrawing their petition to unionize the New York-based architecture firm SHoP, but at least six other firms in the city are reported to be organizing.

Review of 'Momentum of Light'

By Francis Kéré and Iwan Baan

Josephine Minutillo

February 14, 2022

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Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun.

New Exhibition Shines a Light on George Fred Keck’s Solar Home of 1933

‘Houses of Tomorrow,’ on the first glass dwelling in the U.S., is on view at the Elmhurst Museum near Chicago through May 29

Zach Mortice

February 8, 2022

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The exhibition explores the modernist Chicago architect’s House of Tomorrow built for the city’s Century of Progress international exposition.

Theaster Gates’s Design of ‘Black Chapel’ Unveiled for the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion

With support from Adjaye Associates, the pavilion will open in London for the summer, beginning June 10

Ilana Herzig

February 3, 2022

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The Chicago-based artist pays homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions while alluding to notions of communion, music, and public participation.