Architecture as a function of agency
Jul 11, 2022by Aastha D. Jul 11, 2022
An(other) exhibition - Agir, by MVRDV and The Why Factory - confesses crises, projects solutions, and takes on the lamp of activism.
Aastha D. is an independent scholar, designer and educator who works at the intersections of design, art, culture and feminist theory. She has a Master's degree from Columbia University and currently teaches at institutes in New York and Mumbai; contributes to journals of design and culture; teaches writing and critical thinking; conducts research and curates publications, all while struggling to write her first book.
Germane Barnes on agency, rituals of spaces, and not buildings
Jun 09, 2022by Aastha D. Jun 09, 2022
The Miami-based architect and designer investigates the connection between architecture and identity through historical research and design speculation.
What in the meme is architecture?
Dec 20, 2021by Aastha D. Dec 20, 2021
How a format known for its untidy satire is challenging models of power in the field of architecture.
MoMA show highlights Chinese architects' commitment to cultural sustainability
Aug 20, 2021by Aastha D. Aug 20, 2021
Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China will confront notions of expansive urbanscapes, to redefine and reimagine contemporary Chinese architecture.
Action in the age of neoliberal pluralism: an overview of Bracket’s latest edition
Aug 11, 2021by Aastha D. Aug 11, 2021
In its fourth almanac on Architecture, Environment and Digital Culture, bracket explores the complex relationship between spatial design, the public(s) and the action(s) it contains.
Climate care and planet love inform the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
Jul 12, 2021by Aastha D. Jul 12, 2021
STIR speaks with Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Baerbel Mueller, the curators for Ecologies and Politics of the Living at the Vienna Biennale that aims to inspire alternative imaginations.
‘Mute Icons' by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich is beyond a futurist monograph
Jun 10, 2021by Aastha D. Jun 10, 2021
Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich's new book - Mute Icons-and Other Dichotomies on the Real in Architecture - brings alive the meanings of architectural form in new and unexpected ways.
J Mayer H prioritises weather to understand, intervene in, and build for space
Jun 02, 2021by Aastha D. Jun 02, 2021
From installations to public buildings, the Berlin-based J. Mayer H. experiments with interventions that perform a new kind of design responsive engagement.
'Feasting + Fasting' by Ateya Khorakiwala explores spatial politics through food
May 27, 2021by Aastha D. May 27, 2021
The seminar at Columbia University GSAPP complicates the global political act of eating, with particular attention to the role of commodities like sugar in constituting the Global South.
Neyran Turan urges architecture to propose a new planetary imagination
May 19, 2021by Aastha D. May 19, 2021
Can architecture act as a measure in which the simultaneity of the planetary and the quotidian are read together?
COVID-19 as the curator of the post pandemic world
May 13, 2021by Aastha D. May 13, 2021
Director, Museo de Arte Moderno, Victoria Noorthoorn, offers an insight into how her curatorial practices have evolved and continue to transform the boundaries of the museum space.
Istanbul Design Biennial revisits empathy as an objective, a toolbox, and beyond
Apr 23, 2021by Aastha D. Apr 23, 2021
Through a series of offline and online spaces, the 5th edition of six-month long Istanbul Design Biennial continues to iterate means of caring as the fundamental principle of design.
Nestled amid pines, Circle Wood is an art collector's house that mimics a tree stump
Apr 15, 2021by Aastha D. Apr 15, 2021
Warsaw-based Mobius Architekci takes the role of a designer and arborist to create this haven, clad in okume wood from West Africa, in the Polish forest.
MoMA's latest exhibit interrogates American architecture’s history with blackness
Apr 09, 2021by Aastha D. Apr 09, 2021
Centring African American and African diaspora communities, this exhibition dismantles ways of understanding the past and its sustained repercussions in American cities today.
Kind of Boring : Paul Priessner details his ‘dumb’ manifesto for being an architect
Mar 22, 2021by Aastha D. Mar 22, 2021
Paul Preissner’s new book proposes that through making the normal weird, architecture has a chance to be an open question rather than a finite object.
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