5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for July 2019

July was once known as Quintilis, and was the fifth month of the Roman calender. The fifth of ten. “Winter” being but an ill-defined cold and dark period between December and March.

And sensible as such as an arrangement sounds, and much as we could live with such an arrangement today, with the rise of the Roman Republic the wise decision was made to divide winter into January and February.

Wise not least because it means our contemporary year has 12 months: and thus two extra months in which to enjoy even more architecture and design exhibitions, and thereby to allow us all to even better understand the world which surrounds us.

Our quintet for Quintilis 2019 can be found in Stuttgart, San Francisco, Weil am Rhein, Melbourne and Dresden……

The Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof presents Stuttgart reißt sich ab. Plea for the Preservation of Cityscape Defining Buildings

Cities grow, mutate, evolve, a process which, as with human development, is rarely straightforward, rarely occurs without sacrifice and/or leaving

smow blog Design Calendar: June 1st 1932 – Mart Stam Awarded Artistic Copyright for the Cubic Cantilever Chair

“…the strict, logical lines which avoid anything unnecessary and which with the sleekest form and through the simplest means embodies the modern objectivity”¹, with this, glowing, description of his design the Supreme Court of the German Reich in Leipzig awarded on June 1st 1932 Mart Stam the artistic copyright of the cubic, quadratic, cantilever chair, and thus settled arguably the very first legal dispute over the copyright of the form of a piece of furniture intended for industrial mass production.

5 New Design Exhibitions for December 2015

December can be a trying month: always having to think of others; always having to patronise bars and restaurants you’ve

smow blog Design Calendar: July 23rd 1927 – Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart Opens

“The challenges of contemporary housing are rooted in the changing materials, social and intellectual structures of our time; and can

(smow) blog compact: aed Stuttgart present Zukunftslabor Weißenhofsiedlung

Erected in 1927 in context of the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition “Die Wohnung” the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart aimed to achieve “….

(smow) blog compact: B10 Active House by Werner Sobek

Since the beginning of July the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart has been one building richer with the official unveiling of the

Talking Stuttgart Architecture

Enter “Stuttgart architecture” into a well known search engine and you”ll get an awful lot of responses relating to the