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'The Color Black' traces multiple pathways through art and architecture
Jan 15, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 15, 2025
The 2024 book presents essays by Mohsen Mostafavi and Max Raphael that explore the colour’s significance through the ages.
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Stillness in architectural narratives: The best of architectural photography in 2024
Dec 27, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Dec 27, 2024
STIRred 2024: A round-up of the best of the year’s architectural narrativisation through books and exhibitions that capture the possibilities and realities of built environments.
Dot, blob, line and form: Visual designs from 2024 transcending medium and muse
Dec 21, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Dec 21, 2024
STIRred 2024: From drawings, sketches and posters to digital illustrations, typeface designs and data visualisations, STIR revisits the best of graphic and visual designs from the year.
Words, spaces & discourses: a look at the best design and architecture books of 2024
Dec 20, 2024by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2024
STIRred 2024: We recount titles published this year that inspired, provoked and provided insight, with topics ranging from propaganda graphics to sacred modernist architectures.
Toppling geography and time: The works of Dayanita Singh
Dec 18, 2024by Chintan Girish Modi Dec 18, 2024
With her solo exhibition, Photo Lies on view at JNAF, Mumbai, Singh talks about the deceptive potential of photography that makes the medium a joy to play with.
The inimitable compositions and details of 'Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings'
Dec 13, 2024by STIRworld Dec 13, 2024
This photo essay accompanies two excerpts from the book published by Prestel, which "responds to the need to evaluate Scarpa's work within the history of architecture".
Embodying the sacred and profane in Iwan Baan’s images of 'Rome – Las Vegas'
Oct 17, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 17, 2024
The Dutch photographer trains his meticulous eye on the image of Rome and Las Vegas, taking inspiration from Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s book on Vegas' symbols.
Alastair Phillip Wiper captures the uncanny and the paradoxical in ‘Underground House’
Oct 02, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Oct 02, 2024
In his ongoing series How We Learned to Stop Worrying, the photographer explores architectural remnants of the nuclear age and their influence on politics and culture.
We built this 'Photo City': How images have shaped urban perceptions at V&A Dundee
Sep 02, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 02, 2024
An ongoing exhibition at the museum in Dundee details the intertwined histories of photography and cities, questioning if it’s the city that forms the image or vice versa.
'Brutalist Plants' visually chronicles eco-brutalist aesthetics on a global scale
Aug 15, 2024by Jerry Elengical Aug 15, 2024
Created by Olivia Broome, the photo book published by Hoxton Mini Press features a vast selection of images documenting the organic synergy between béton brut and nature.
'Reimagining' the city this June: Must-see events at London Festival of Architecture
May 31, 2024by STIRworld May 31, 2024
As the LFA steps into its 20th year, STIR picks the best of exhibits that explore, celebrate and probe the multifaceted landscape of contemporary architecture across London.
Photographing the multivalence of 'Sacred Modernity' with Jamie McGregor Smith
May 16, 2024by Jincy Iype May 16, 2024
With Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture, Jamie McGregor Smith visually surveys the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe.
Lessons in humility, joy, and care: The most STIRring conversations from 2023
Dec 21, 2023by Zohra Khan Dec 21, 2023
STIRred 2023: From discovering the enigmatic world of Ferrari to exploring the craft of collecting and the value of architectural joy, we take a look at our best conversations.
Visual vignettes of creativity and humanity: the best of photography in 2023
Dec 18, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 18, 2023
STIRred 2023: STIR celebrates powerfully creative photographic works from across the disciplines of architecture and art this year.
Architectural photographer Ezra Stoller "felt a responsibility to record history"
Dec 15, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 15, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Erica Stoller, the daughter of photographer Ezra Stoller through whose eyes we see some of the most iconic 20th century buildings.
UHA upholds persistence and growth with their retrospective 'Reflection—Projection'
Dec 15, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2023
UHA's founding director Jonas Upton-Hansen and director Ricardo Mateu recall a decade of learning, purpose, and planning with their retrospective held at the STIR Gallery, New Delhi.
Ruin, rudiment, rumination, and reclamation: the primeval allure of 'Green Urbex 2'
Dec 13, 2023by Anmol Ahuja Dec 13, 2023
Returning with a host of new photographs in his second book of the same name, Romain Veillon continues his exploration of a post-human planet in the present.
Books on architecture and design coordinating discourse and knowledge
Dec 12, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 12, 2023
STIRred 2023: From heartfelt autobiographies to activist readings, STIR recounts books published on global design and architecture that enabled creative learning and propagation.
Jim Stephenson on joy and the value of 'use and mess' in architectural photography
Dec 01, 2023by Zohra Khan Dec 01, 2023
The UK-based photographer elaborates on the meaning of ‘architectural joy’ and ‘people watching’, referencing his travelling installation, The Architect has Left the Building.
Christopher Herwig reveals anomalous bus stops in the former Soviet Union
Oct 19, 2023by Almas Sadique Oct 19, 2023
Soviet Bus Stops, a photography project spread across two books and a documentary film, traces Herwig’s process chronicling expressive artistic bus stops built in erstwhile Soviet nations.
Behind the lens: Capturing architectural narratives through words
Sep 27, 2023by Keziah Vikranth Sep 27, 2023
Five prominent architectural photographers tell STIR about the buildings they most enjoyed shooting and the concealed adventure behind the images they produce.
'What Mad Pursuit' at Teatro dell’architettura: architecture as photography and vice versa
Sep 04, 2023by Eleonora Ghedini Sep 04, 2023
Showing works by Aglaia Konrad, Armin Linke, and Bas Princen, the exhibition at Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio reflects on the relation between architecture as the photographic subject and the exhibition space.
'Brutalist Paris': uncovering unknown facets from within the known city
Jun 08, 2023by Sunena V Maju Jun 08, 2023
The book Brutalist Paris by Nigel Green and Robin Wilson, published by Blue Crow Media, presents the first cohesive study of brutalist architecture in Paris.
Roland Halbe tries to capture images capable of carrying you away
Feb 20, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Feb 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Stuttgart-based photographer Roland Halbe who believes that his best images are those that are improvised.
'Morphogenesis - Doha Icons' celebrates Doha's contemporary architecture
Dec 08, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 08, 2022
As Doha is prepared afresh to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, photographer Pygmalion Karatzas reveals its modern architectural landscape, captured with a monochrome format.
'Nortigo' by Pygmalion Karatzas abstracts architecture from the ground up
Nov 15, 2022by Jincy Iype Nov 15, 2022
A portmanteau formed of 'north' and 'vertigo', Nortigo is an architectural photography series by Pygmalion Karatzas documenting specific buildings and their elements across the US.
A paradoxical romance of eternity: Eternal Monuments in the Dark by Yang Xiao
Nov 03, 2022by Jincy Iype Nov 03, 2022
Speaking to STIR, the Chinese photographer summarises her travels to 40 countries over 10 years, for her futuristic architectural photography series, Eternal Monuments in the Dark.
Sebastian Posingis on the freedom arising from the inability to visualise photographs
Sep 06, 2022by Zohra Khan Sep 06, 2022
The German photographer who's been documenting Geoffrey Bawa’s works for a decade, discusses his unmethodical approach to his craft and the feeling of Bawa’s architecture.
Dezeen Awards 2021 winners champion sustainability and vigour in design
Dec 14, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Dec 14, 2021
Now in its fourth year since its inception in 2018, Dezeen Awards continue to highlight the best in the fields of architecture, design, and other allied disciplines, globally.
Romain Veillon captures abandoned spaces reclaimed by nature in ‘Green Urbex’
Nov 17, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Nov 17, 2021
Delving on the dire question: “What would the Earth look like if man disappeared suddenly?”, French photographer Romain Veillon captures enduring architecture in ruin, bloom, and transition.
Thibaud Poirier explores the revised gospel of modernist churches with Sacred Spaces
Oct 24, 2021by Jincy Iype Oct 24, 2021
With Sacred Spaces, Poirier photographs the glorious insides of modernist churches, contemplating what makes these religious structures sacral and contemporary.
Edmund Sumner, Rob Gregory on the evolving contemporary Indian house
Oct 13, 2021by Jincy Iype, Anmol Ahuja Oct 13, 2021
STIR engages in an inquisitive conversation with the photographer and author of Contemporary House India to gauge the essence of the modern Indian residence.
James Kerwin photographically chronicles ghost towns of the world with Uninhabited
Mar 04, 2021by Jincy Iype Mar 04, 2021
STIR chats with Kerwin about his ongoing photography series Uninhabited, which highlights the intrigue, beauty and solitude that reside within abandoned structures of the world.
Bijoy Jain X Iwan Baan: Cross Border Conversations
Nov 03, 2020by Zohra Khan Nov 03, 2020
STIR X LOCO Design bring architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai with Dutch photographer Iwan Baan to share thoughts on travelling and stillness as part of the same continuum.
Edmund Sumner X Vladimir Belogolovsky: Cross Border Conversations
Sep 10, 2020by Zohra Khan Sep 10, 2020
STIR X LOCO Design bring architectural photographer Edmund Sumner with critic and curator Vladimir Belogolovsky to discuss the nuances of storytelling with two different mediums.
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