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Hotel Orloff, Hydra

ARCHITECTURE:Hotel Orloff

To celebrate the unique architecture of Hydra island, we are making walks in the streets to discover buildings, that their use has …

Phaedra Hotel, Hydra

ARCHITECTURE:Phaedra Hotel

To celebrate the unique architecture of Hydra island, we are making walks in the streets to discover buildings, that their use has …

Ippokampos Hotel, Hydra

ARCHITECTURE: Ippokampos Hotel

Hydra is a small rocky island in the Argosaronic Gulf, one of the most cosmopolitan islands in the Mediterranean Sea and one …

Installation view: Louis Kahn and Venezia, Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio, 2018-19

ARCHITECTURE:Louis Kahn and Venezia

Regarded as one of the great master builders of the 20th Century, Louis Kahn was one of America’s most influential modernist architects. …

Hill of the Buddha, 2015, © Photo: Shigeo Ogawa

REVIEW:Tadao Ando-The Challenge

Tadao Ando’s Retrospective at Centre George Pompidou, that is closing at the end of the year, is truly a challenge. It is …

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 …

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 …

Amplifying Nature, Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018, Exhibition view, Photo: Anna Zagrodzka, © & Courtesy Polish Pavilion in Venice

ARCHITECTURE:Amplifying Nature

Architecture as a domain of the collective knowledge of nature and a way of experiencing the planetary scale is the underlying idea …

Courtesy of the Cruising Pavilion

ARCHITECTURE: Cruising Pavilion

The word Cruising usually describes the quest for sexual encounters between homosexual or bi men in public spaces, but it cannot be …

Nendo, Watercolour, Installation view at Design Miami/ Basel 2018, Photo: Daniel Kukla, Courtesy of Friedman Benda and nendo

DESIGN:nendo-Watercolour

Established in 2007 by Albertz Benda and the veteran art dealer Barry Friedman (now retired), together with founding partner Jennifer Olshin, the …