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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto wins 2024 Pritzker Prize
Riken Yamamoto is the 53rd Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the ninth to hail from Japan.
The world‘Fierce champion of equity and inclusion’ Lesley Lokko awarded 2024 RIBA Gold Medal
Acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author, racial advocate, and curator, Lesley Lokko is the first woman of African descent to receive the Royal Gold Medal 2024 for architecture.
The worldArchitect of 23rd Serpentine Pavilion revealed
Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm, Mass Studies, have been revealed as the designers of the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion in London.
The worldCarlo Ratti named curator of Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Carlo Ratti, an esteemed architect, engineer, and academic, has been appointed by the board of directors of La Biennale di Venezia to curate the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in 2025.
The worldThe passion projects of Alvar and Aino Aalto’s own home
A visit to the Aalto House in Finland, designed in 1936 by a young Alvar and Aino Aalto, is a lesson in experimentation and delighting in the imperfect.
The worldFrom regional romanticism to reconciliation: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Vals, Zürich, Venice
The final leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2023 Dulux Study Tour was like an architectural amazing race from Zürich to the Alpine Rhine Valley, back to Zürich, ending at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
The worldPalimpsest and palindrome: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Lisbon
The 2023 Dulux Study Tour makes its way to Lisbon, a city where the time-space continuum is written into the urban fabric.
The worldMaterial culture: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Helsinki
The first leg of the 2023 Dulux Study Tour visited Helsinki: traditionally a city of red granite, copper and experiments with new materials.
The worldDavid Chipperfield wins 2023 Pritzker Prize
The 2023 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to English architect David Chipperfield “for the rigour, integrity and pertinence of a body of work that – beyond the realm of the architecture discipline – speaks for his social and environmental commitment,” said the jury.
The world2023 winners of Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes revealed
The Architectural Review and Architects Journal (AJ) have named the winners of the 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes.
The worldPritzker laureate Balkrishna Doshi dies aged 95
Indian modernist architect, and winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Balkrishna Doshi has died at his home in Ahmedabad aged 95.
The worldPritzker Prize-winning architect dies aged 91
Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has passed away at his home in the prefecture of Okinawa, aged 91.
The worldSerpentine Galleries reveals 2023 pavilion
London’s Serpentine Galleries has announced the recipient of the 22nd pavilion commission is Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, whose structure will occupy the gardens of Serpentine South from June 2023.
The worldSANAA receives Praemium Imperiale architecture award
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese architecture practice SANAA were awarded the prize for architecture in recognition of their contribution to the profession.
The worldExperience the best of Japan’s built environment with an architectural travelling tour
Travelrite’s architecture tour of Japan returns following the Japanese government’s recent move to permit specialized group tours to enter the country.
The world‘Laboratory of the future’: 2023 Venice Biennale theme revealed
The president of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto and exhibition curator Lesley Lokko have jointly announced the theme for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The worldSerpentine Galleries’ Black Chapel pavilion channels light from above
A central oculus in Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel emanates a single source of light to create a “sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality”.
The worldFrancis Kéré selected for 2022 Pritzker Prize Laureate
Architect, educator and social activist Diébédo Francis Kéré has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2022.
The worldIconic Case Study house at risk
An icon of modernist residential architecture could be at risk, after the City of Los Angeles approved a development on the lot below the clifftop it sits on.
The worldSerpentine Pavilion channels spirit of the black chapel
Designs have been unveiled for the 21st Serpentine Pavilion in London by Chicago artist Theaster Gates with architectural support from Adjaye Associates.
The worldLesley Lokko appointed curator of Venice Architecture Biennale
Lesley Lokko will curate the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held in 2023.
The worldBalkrishna Doshi wins RIBA Gold Medal
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been named the winner of the Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The worldBjarke Ingels Group wins 2021 World Building of the Year
Bjarke Ingels Group’s waste-to-energy plant with a ski slope on its roof has been named World Building of the Year at the 14th annual World Architecture Festival (WAF).
The worldVacant Chicago sites become canvas for fourth architecture biennial
The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, themed The Available City, presents the more than 10,000 city-owned vacant lots for deeper engagement with the community.
The worldArchitect wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing Chinese internment camps
A British-born, Rotterdam-based architect is part of a team whose investigation revealed secret prisons and internment camps built in China’s Xinjiang province to detain Muslim minorities.
The worldAlejandro Aravena appointed chair of Pritzker Prize jury
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.
The worldWorld Architecture Festival postponed until 2021
The organizer of World Architecture Festival and Inside World Festival of Interiors has postponed the twin design festivals until mid-2021.
The worldVenice Architecture Biennale postponed until 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again cause the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale to be postponed.
Industry newsFather of modern Iraqi architecture dies of COVID-19
Rifat Chadirji, the prominent Iraqi architect, photographer and author, has died in London at the age of 93 after contracting COVID-19.
The worldDesktop destinations: visit some faraway architectural gems
We round up some of ArchitectureAU’s most memorable “postcards,” where architects and writers report back on their visits to architectural wonders around the world.
The worldMichael Sorkin, ‘supremely gifted’ theorist and architect, dies from COVID-19
American architect, theorist and urbanist Michael Sorkin has died in New York after contracting COVID-19.
Industry newsForefather of Venice Architecture Biennale dies of coronavirus
Vittorio Gregotti, an Italian architect who curated the first architecture show at the Venice Art Biennale in 1975, has passed away in Milan.
Industry newsPritzker Prize awarded to all-female partnership
Architecture’s highest honour has been awarded to two women for the first time in its history.
Industry newsMilan Furniture Fair postponed due to coronavirus
One of the world’s most design trade events has been postponed due to the largest outbreak of coronavirus outside of Asia.
The worldAll female, youngest ever team commissioned for 2020 Serpentine Pavilion
In its 20th year, the popular temporary architecture installation at London’s Serpentine Galleries will be designed by a South African practice headed by three women all born in 1990.
Industry newsHumanitarian architect wins global women in architecture award
Pakistan’s first female architect, who’s had a decades-long career in humanitarian architecture, has been honoured in the 2020 W Awards.
Industry news‘Social condenser’ public library wins World Building of the Year
A Dutch library has been named the World Building of the Year at the 2019 World Architecture Festival.
The worldA tale of two cities: Dulux DIAlogue on Tour, Singapore
From socially conscious community projects to the Crazy Rich Asians side of design, Singapore is a city with two distinct identities.
The worldVitruvian Tunnel asks: ‘Is charm underrated?’
An installation in Auckland “remind us just how public-spirited and engaging architecture can be.”
The worldThe bamboo frontier
Kiwi architect Richard Morris reflects on the trials, challenges and rewards of working with bamboo construction in Myanmar.
The worldMeditation on a roof: Junya Ishigami completes slate-topped Serpentine Pavilion
The construction of the 2019 edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion comission in London’s Kensington Gardens has been completed.
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