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Left: Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#50, 2017, Mixed media, © Nobuta Omote/SANDWICH, Courtesy Scai The Bathhouse. Right: Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#49, 2017, © Nobuta Omote/SANDWICH, Courtesy Scai The Bathhouse

ART CITIES:Paris-Kohei Nawa

Since completing a Ph.D in fine art sculpture from Kyoto City University of Art in 2003, Kohei Nawa has won several awards …

Giancarlo De Carlo, Collegi universitari in Urbino, 2015, Photo: Olivo Barbieri

ARCHITECTURE:Bruno Zevi’s Architects

Bruno Zevi (22/1/1918-9/12000) was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of “classicizing” modern architecture …

Francis Alÿs, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco-Spain, 2008, 2 video projections, 7:44 min each, Photo: Roberto Rubalcava, © Francis Alÿs, Courtesy the artist and Art Sonje Center

ART CITIES:Seoul-Francis Alÿs

One of the most compelling artists working today, Francis Alÿs offers a thought-provoking point of view on the times in which we …

Poul Gernes, Pyramide 1967–2018, Photo: Mattias Givell. Courtesy Wanas Foundation

ART-PRESENTATION: Projects x 3

Sculpture, both what it is and what it can be, is explored at Wanås Konst, Chiharu Shiota and Katarina Löfström (SE), who …

Left: Administration Building, Jeju National University, 1965, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea. Right: Samil Building, 1969, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea

ARCHITECTURE:Kim Chung-Up,Dialogue

As the only Korean who worked in Le Corbusier’s atelier, Kim Chung-up (1922-1988) laid the foundation for contemporary Korean architecture after returning …

Aenne Biermann, Coconut, 1929, Museum Ludwig-Cologne, Reproduction: Rheinisches Bildarchiv-Cologne

PHOTO:Aenne Biermann

Aenne Biermann was a self-taught photographer who developed one of the most sophisticated modernist practices in interwar Germany. She assimilated many of …