Miriam Sitz

The United States pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale has unveiled 12 projects comprising The Architectural Imagination.

French conceptual artist Daniel Buren has created a temporary, site-specific work for the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton building, in the Bois de Boulogne park in western Paris.

Today, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced winners of the 17th Annual National Design Awards, which recognize excellence and innovation in 11 categories.

“It all started with a very slow bartender at a gallery opening,” says composer Raphael Mostel of his longtime collaboration with architect Steven Holl.

Set against a dramatic backdrop of distant mountains and boundless sky, a tiny chapel in Austria’s southernmost state of Carinthia magnifies the intensity and natural beauty of its location.

Named for the conventional Japanese word meaning “house,” Naomi Pollock’s book surveys the “wonderful, as well as the weird” residential architecture of Japan.