•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 14, 2025
At India Art Fair 2025, speakers like Naomi Beckwith, Manuel Rabaté and Sangita Jindal discussed building access and community in the arts,
by Aarthi Mohan Feb 14, 2025
Spanish architect Miguel Arraiz's design for this year’s temple draws on volcanic landscapes and the Japanese art of kintsugi to create a sacred space for collective healing.
by Manu Sharma Jan 08, 2025
Curator Natasha Becker discusses the artist’s expression of queer pride through sculptures made from urban refuse.
by Leah Triplett Jan 01, 2025
The California-based artist discusses what inspires and informs her work on the heels of two major installations in New York.
by Manu Sharma Nov 24, 2024
Yousif joins STIR for an interview that explores her debut solo show and highlights the Iraqi blogger who inspired it.
by Aarthi Mohan Nov 20, 2024
The group exhibition at SFMOMA displays over 200 objects stressing themes of athletic discipline, a sense of camaraderie and events that shaped sports culture.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 09, 2024
The exhibition at the Museum of African Diaspora reclaims the narrative of home as a site of resilience, creativity and community within Black domestic life.
by Rebecca Anne Proctor Aug 27, 2024
The Tokyo-based digital collective's latest museum in Saudi Arabia, its first in the Middle East, reflects a desire to further the Saudi art and cultural scene.
by Almas Sadique Jun 13, 2024
With two recently held exhibitions and more in the pipeline, Canoa highlights how design processes can be mainstreamed to include inputs from stakeholders and collaborators.
by Manu Sharma May 02, 2024
Curator Henriette Huldisch talks about The New Eagle Creek Saloon, Barnette’s take on San Francisco’s first black-owned gay bar.
by Jincy Iype May 02, 2024
The monograph Towards Abundance: the Delightful Paradoxes of Gender advocates for a shift in design culture, from a mono-gender perspective to one of commonality and care.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 19, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the American sculptor who drew on space, volume and gravity to craft his gigantic sculptures.
by Deeksha Nath Mar 23, 2024
The multimedia artist talks to STIR about her ongoing solo exhibit in San Francisco and how her practice is edified by astronomical communities, knowledge systems and history.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Oct 03, 2023
Atelier Cho Thompson's renovation delicately balances past and present in the heart of Boston's business district.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 23, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Stanley Saitowitz about growing up in South Africa, his Transvaal House inspired by the local vernacular, and his subsequent work in America.
by Almas Sadique Aug 04, 2023
At the recently concluded UIA World Congress of Architects, STIR spoke with the architect to understand spatial issues that restrict a large populace from performing diurnal duties.
by Pallavi Mehra Feb 20, 2023
Architecture firm Spiegel Aihara Workshop has modernised the Wraparound House's foundation while maintaining its 1930s design aesthetic, located in the Marina District.
by Jincy Iype Jan 13, 2023
With an exterior made of non-combustible materials, Faulkner Architects has created a protective, modern form to withstand Californian fires, as a 'base camp for adventure.'
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Dec 20, 2022
San Francisco-based Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) transforms the mid-century modern home by opening the core.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 17, 2022
For the design of Suspension House, Fougeron Architecture remodelled a house nestled between two hills into a suspended steel structure spanning the creek
by Zohra Khan Oct 06, 2022
The American architect and founder of Chicago-based Studio Gang has been announced as the honouree of the award that celebrates trailblazers in architecture.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 16, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Carissa Potter Carlson reimagines the world as a loving place and inquires ideas of intimacy through her thoughtful art.
by STIRworld Jul 27, 2022
Burning Man makes its comeback at the Black Rock Desert after two years, with a host of massive, interactive art installations, and the community exploring various forms of creative expressions.
by Shraddha Nair Mar 27, 2022
The Tokyo-based international collective brings elements of fantasy and magic to Kairakuen Garden, one of Japan's Three Great Gardens that was built in the 1800s in Mito, Ibaraki.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jan 08, 2022
The visual, performing, and literary arts offer the most room for unspoken, intergenerational, gestural forms of citational practice within the feminist domestic.
by Zohra Khan Oct 08, 2021
In this UNSCRIPTED episode, Swiss industrial designer Yves Béhar reflects on his secret tryst with writing and why water means 'a moment of zen' for him.
by Shraddha Nair Sep 15, 2021
Curator Barbara London presents Seeing Sound at KADIST San Francisco, a multi-part sound art exhibition produced by Independent Curators International.
by Zohra Khan Aug 10, 2021
The San Francisco Design Week 2021 themed around 'Power' brought together different virtual discourses conveying a common message: with great power comes great possibility.
by Aastha D. May 19, 2021
Can architecture act as a measure in which the simultaneity of the planetary and the quotidian are read together?
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 22, 2020
With a range of artists and collectives, the exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco highlights that technology is changing the human modes of existence.
by Jincy Iype Sep 23, 2020
With large glazing facing panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay, Jasmit Rangr’s ivory white, three-storey home is built on an earthquake prone, inclined slope in California, USA.
by Jincy Iype Apr 10, 2020
STIR marks the birth anniversary of American architect Joseph Allen Stein, known for his ‘buildings in the garden’ such as the India International Centre and India Habitat Centre in Delhi.
by Dan Hogman Feb 12, 2020
Artist and architect Dan Hogman sketches the Hibernia bank building, designed by Albert Pissis, credited for introducing Neoclassical architecture to the city with this structure.
by Dan Hogman Jan 08, 2020
Artist and architect Dan Hogman sketches the two buildings that add to the skyline of San Francisco and sit in one frame like yin and yang.
by Dan Hogman Dec 18, 2019
Dan Hogman sketches this part-museum, part playground housed in a former bank building in San Francisco that makes fantasy a reality through its multi-sensorial installations.
by Sukanya Garg Dec 17, 2019
Artist Lenny Maughan uses the Strava app to create drawings of fruits, animals, famous figures and other things on his marathon runs.
by Dan Hogman Nov 20, 2019
Artist and architect Dan Hogman gives us a sketched reflection of M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, a monumental creation by Herzog and de Meuron.
by Zohra Khan Oct 31, 2019
Four theme-based, 3D printed mud structures reveal possible future of architecture in Mud Frontiers – an experimental project in Colorado, by the San Francisco-based studio.
by Dan Hogman Oct 23, 2019
Artist and architect Dan Hogman takes us to the iconic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, sketching the monumental structure built around a small artificial lagoon.
by NOWNESS Sep 06, 2019
A visit with the Swiss-born designer and entrepreneur at his impeccable home in San Francisco.
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