Felix Burrichter is the editor of PIN-UP – “the only biannual Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” – now approaching its fifteen-year anniversary. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, he told the story of this inventive and influential publication, and also talked about three curatorial projects: ‘Superbenches’ in Järfälla, Sweden; ‘Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau’ at the Swiss […]
As museums around the world struggle to reopen, the MAXXI architecture museum in Rome has launched the innovative Casa Mondo exhibition on Instagram. @maxxicasamondo is the museum’s first digital exhibition and may even be the first of its kind to draw on archival material, feature a fully designed digital exhibition space by Formafantasma, and commission […]
Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin, curators at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, have built Australia’s most ambitious museum program for contemporary design. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, they described past commissions and exhibitions, and offered a sneak preview of the design components in the forthcoming NGV Triennial. Watch the conversation here: […]
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Ekene Ijeoma is an artist based between Brooklyn and Boston working at the intersections of life experiences, data studies, performance, and social efficacy creating artworks ranging from apps and websites to music performances and interactive installations. Through multiple fields of research, he translates data into multimedia using computational design and conceptual art strategies. Ekene recently […]
Dan Barber, a leading voice on local food and sustainability and the ceramist Gregg Moore discussed how their conversations and Gregg’s craftsmanship draws on the materiality of the farm landscape to provide a deeply thoughtful and aesthetically resolved dining experience. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, […]
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Montreal natives and twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart are the founders of GOODEE, an e-commerce direct-to-consumer platform that brings together the values of good design and good purpose across the home, beauty, accessory, and design stories told on the site and embodied in the brands featured. Our conversation will span the broad range of […]
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Bijoy Jain, founder of the architectural practice Studio Mumbai, shares his philosophy of practice, based in the consideration of local expertise, craft, and patterns of life. We look at a range of products from the scale of buildings to furniture, which draw creatively on a global palette of forms, materials and skills. Watch the […]
Johan Schwind is an industrial designer, programmer, and futurist. His passion for connecting engineering and design to human-friendly technological solutions is at the heart of what he does on a daily basis as design director for Urban X, the groundbreaking BMW start-up incubator in New York City. Johan’s work is extremely hands-on, driven by a […]
Dakin Hart, Senior Curator at the Noguchi Museum, offered an expert overview of Isamu Noguchi’s wide-ranging activities in design. In his conversation with Glenn Adamson, we looked in detail at several case studies over the course of his career, including his early product and furniture designs, set designs for choreographer Martha Graham, and late works […]
Architect Patricia Urquiola is one of the most successful and influential designers in the world. Since 2001, from her base in Milan at Studio Urquiola, she leads an international team of creatives that collectively work across nearly all architecture, interiors, & product categories in the luxury lifestyle sector. Her recent projects include hospitality, commercial spaces, […]
Daniel Arsham, a contemporary artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice embraces painting, sculpture, and object design, spoke about his investigations of built form, often introducing temporal narratives of transience or dissolution—making architecture “do things it is not supposed to do.” Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated in April […]
Iris Van Herpen is an unparalleled innovator in the fashion domain, celebrated for her explorations of technology in relation to the body. In this conversation hosted by Glenn Adamson, she discussed a series of wide-ranging recent collaborations, including with Benthem Crouwel Architects, choreographer Damien Jalet, and the scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. […]
As a founding partner of the critically-acclaimed architecture studio Work AC with her husband architect Dan Wood, and the first female dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation, Amale Andraos is one of the foremost practitioners and thinkers in the fields of architecture and architectural education. Hosted by Stephen Burks, our […]
