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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for November 2021

"November's night is dark and drear, The dullest month of all the year", opined Letitia Elizabeth Landon in 1836, however, 'twas not all doom and gloom, for, as she continues, "the November evening now closing in round Mrs. Cameron's house was of a very cheerful nature."* A cheerfulness in Mrs. Cameron's house/school occasioned by the gaiety associated with the rapidly approaching annual school prize-giving and ball; and a cheerfulness to banish the dreary darkness of a November evening that

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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2019
Architecture | 29.04.2019

5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2019

While the shortlist of exhibitions for this column is regularly long, that for May 2019 was particularly so. And particularly tricky. Perusing it we saw no realistic chance of getting it down to five, all made good claims for inclusion, none deserved to be ignored...... Then we noticed that, with a little bit tweaking, we could get two lists: one featuring those exhibitions directly connected with Bauhaus/Inter-War architecture and design, and one featuring those less directly connected. 💡

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...and the finished blocks (Photo © Philippe Ruault, courtesy S AM Swiss Architecture Museum Basel)
Architecture | 11.10.2018

Transform @ S AM Swiss Architecture Museum Basel

Recycling, reuse and reappropriation are not only subjects for product design, but also for architecture, which hopefully isn't new information, even if considerations on such (arguably) aren't always at the forefront of architects thoughts, far less architectural planning. Even if they (equally arguably) should be. With the exhibition Transform the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum Basel make an appeal not only for more, better considered, recycling, reuse and reappropriation in architecture,

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Adolfo Natalilni (Superstudio), Study for the Continuous Monument, 1969. (Photo © The architect, Courtesy of S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum)
Architecture | 22.03.2016

This was Tomorrow. Reinventing Architecture 1953-1978 at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel

The term "post-war architecture" is for many a term of insult, an insinuation that something is of lesser value. Or just plain bad. And yes there was an awful lot of truly appalling architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. And in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s. And will continue, ad nauseam, ad infinitum, as sure as night follows day. That the immediate post-war decades were also a period of invention, reinvention, experimentation and revival in global

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