•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 21, 2023
The Indian architectural practice wraps a decorated brick facade around a light-filled courtyard, to create a home in Chandigarh that breaks away from convention.
by Daria Kravchuk Nov 16, 2023
The Central Asian country is working to enhance social cohesion and ensure its presence on the global art stage.
by Manu Sharma Nov 02, 2023
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, divides the artist’s practice into two distinct sections.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Nov 02, 2023
A look into the paper architecture of the Italian radicalist and the act of drawing architecture as a proliferation of visionary ideas.
by John Jervis Sep 08, 2023
Richard Saltoun Gallery London's Peter Cook: Cities is a retrospective exhibition that coincides with the 60-year anniversary of Archigram’s first exhibition Living City.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 08, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks to Raymond Neutra about his father, Richard Neutra, whose modern houses and buildings are designed to stimulate healthy living.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Michael Rotondi of RoTo Architects who believes that an identity crisis in the formative years of his generation made architects inventive.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 23, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to New York artist Alexander Melamid who thinks contemporary art is harmful; yet, there is genius in every artist, if we take a good look.
by Zohra Khan Jun 22, 2023
The Indian fashion brand's creative team tells STIR about the art of curating a retail experience and why Raw Mango embraces oddities.
by Anushka Sharma Jun 12, 2023
The restaurant is perched on a bustling street in Barcelona, Spain, with each space drawing inspiration from Pablo Picasso's portraits of Jacqueline Roque.
by 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.
by Rahul Kumar May 25, 2023
Edifice Complex, a solo exhibition by Sameer Kulavoor at TARQ gallery in Mumbai, gives an insight into our contemporary socio-economic and political reality.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 07, 2023
In a conversation with STIR, architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara talks about extracting a 'paradise' through the rejection of Eurocentric metanarratives of architectural canon.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Mar 31, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews Owen Hopkins's new book Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects and finds it refreshing in its focus on architects and broad representation.
by Akash Singh Mar 27, 2023
'Classic meets Modern' in Beijing, by KiKi ARCHi, is an unlikely modernist home for the owner's collection of classic Golden nanmu wood furniture.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 27, 2023
Designed over the site of an abandoned 1950s petrol station in London, the building borrows its visual vocabulary from nearby railway arches and housing complexes.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 27, 2023
STIR interviews the author of Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection about Mies' pioneering exploits in urban housing, for the late architect’s 137th birth anniversary.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Feb 03, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke to Penelope Seidler, about her late husband Harry Seidler, when he initiated the Australian architect’s decade-long touring exhibit ending in March.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 13, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Yung Ho Chang about his father Zhang Kaiji, a long-time Chief Architect at the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design and Research.
by Sukanya Deb Jan 07, 2023
A major survey exhibition of Carolee Schneemann’s work looks at the artist’s masterful experimentations, across mediums of performance, installation, film and multimedia.
by Sukanya Deb Dec 14, 2022
For the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar Museums commissioned significant international artists to create public artworks, transforming the capital city Doha’s landscape.
by Aastha D. Dec 02, 2022
Green Modernism: The New View of Plants, a pilot project at the Museum Ludwig in Germany, looks at the anthropogenic history of plants.
by Sukanya Deb Nov 17, 2022
Rejecting the contradictions in the characterisation of his oeuvre by western institutions, Araeen considers the influence of Islamic thought in the development of modernism.
by Anmol Ahuja Nov 14, 2022
In a multifarious, layered conversation with Sebastien Ricard of WilkinsonEyre, STIR examines the newly opened Battersea Power Station in retrospect and the afterlife of its industrial heritage.
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 Sunena V Maju Oct 15, 2022
In the deserted field of Lithuania, AEXN architects etches Crematorium The Tumulus in the form of a burial mound covered with white linen.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 06, 2022
Through the intervention by Naso, Lago|Algo adorns a new identity with a restaurant and public gallery space inside the concrete shell of the modernist icon at Chapultepec.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 03, 2022
Marfa Ranch House designed by Lake Flato appears to have emerged from the landscape of Marfa with its ranch-style design, rammed earth walls and contextual architecture.
by Nadezna Siganporia Sep 16, 2022
Inspired by post-war modernism, the architecture of this family home in Hyderabad, by Kanan Modi Associates, sits at the intersection of tangible and intangible materials.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 15, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Boston architect Brian Healy about the need to study architectural precedents and building ideas on the shoulders of great masters.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 08, 2022
Winning the competition for the restructuring and extension of the new Fontvieille site, Studio Fuksas' proposal is a vertical park connecting the natural and urban landscape.
by STIRworld Jul 26, 2022
Speaking with the exhibition curators, STIR discovers insights about the wrought iron sculptures and paintings by Santiago Calatrava, on display at the Glyptothek in Munich.
by Anmol Ahuja Jul 21, 2022
Baring its pigmented concrete composition, the set of vertically stacked apartments in Coatepec, Mexico, boasts a shrunk-down footprint and stunning views for each unit.
by STIRworld May 25, 2022
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, RCA's new Battersea campus is a manifestation of the institute's transformation to a STEAM-focused post-graduate university.
by Zohra Khan May 24, 2022
The firm of Robert A.M. Stern was behind the revamp of the 120-year-old Beaux-Arts styled Schwarzman Center, dedicated to enriching student life and foster arts.
by STIRworld May 19, 2022
The sculpture-like residential high-rise by ACPV Architects is a subtle exhibitionist edifice in the native setting of Thailand’s capital, and the newest addition to the city’s dynamic skyline.
by Anmol Ahuja May 11, 2022
STIR mourns the demise of prolific structural engineer and designer Mahendra Raj (1924-2022), reminiscing his distinct works that truly married architecture and engineering.
by STIRworld May 09, 2022
Dartmouth College and Snøhetta reveal the first looks of their upcoming redesign of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, an improved gateway to the campus' dynamic Arts District.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 21, 2022
Designed by Splinter Society as a modernist extension to an existing Federation-style home, the Colonnade House explores new avenues in open living and rebuilding heritage.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 18, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Robert Stern about his new autobiography, Between Memory and Invention, to define his place in architecture and how he influenced it.
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