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What the map does not know: Examining the land in Photographic Geomancy
Sep 12, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Sep 12, 2025
Fotografiska Shanghai’s group exhibition considers geography through the lens of contemporary Chinese image-making.
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South Asian art in focus: Key conversations from the India Art Fair Talks Programme
Feb 14, 2025by 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,
'Temple of the Deep' is a monolith to healing and resilience at Burning Man 2025
Feb 14, 2025by 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.
Leilah Babirye’s art celebrates queer Ugandan identities
Jan 08, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 08, 2025
Curator Natasha Becker discusses the artist’s expression of queer pride through sculptures made from urban refuse.
Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Constructing shared worlds through fabric
Jan 01, 2025by 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.
Maryam Yousif’s ‘Riverbend’ challenges western perceptions of Iraq
Nov 24, 2024by 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.
'Get in the Game': How sports shape the rules of contemporary art, design and culture
Nov 20, 2024by 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.
'Liberatory Living' celebrates the power of design to shape Black spaces
Oct 09, 2024by 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.
Digital art museum teamLab Borderless Jeddah arrives in Saudi Arabia
Aug 27, 2024by 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.
Canoa expunges the veiled aura of backend processes in design and architecture
Jun 13, 2024by 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.
Sadie Barnette reimagines a historical gay bar at the Walker Art Center
May 02, 2024by 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.
Towards an architecture of emotional abundance with John Jennifer Marx
May 02, 2024by 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.
Richard Serra (1938 - 2024), the artist who rethought contemporary sculpture
Apr 19, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 19, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the American sculptor who drew on space, volume and gravity to craft his gigantic sculptures.
Rohini Devasher on the ‘digital twin’ and the Sun as her central protagonist
Mar 23, 2024by 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.
179 Lincoln Street is a transformative revival of a historic Beaux-Arts gem in Boston
Oct 03, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Oct 03, 2023
Atelier Cho Thompson's renovation delicately balances past and present in the heart of Boston's business district.
Stanley Saitowitz says the role of architecture is to liberate its inhabitants
Aug 23, 2023by 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.
Addressing the miscellany of obstacles that thwart inclusive design, with Chris Downey
Aug 04, 2023by 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.
SAW renovates a Spanish Revival style home ground up in San Francisco
Feb 20, 2023by 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.
Faulkner Architects conceives CAMPout, a largely 'fire-proof' residence in California
Jan 13, 2023by 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.'
The Middle Half: transforming the 1962 hillside home in Mill Valley
Dec 20, 2022by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Dec 20, 2022
San Francisco-based Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) transforms the mid-century modern home by opening the core.
Hanging by a moment: A home suspended between two hills in California
Oct 17, 2022by 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
Actionable idealism advocate Jeanne Gang wins the 2023 Charlotte Perriand Award
Oct 06, 2022by 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.
Exploring Oakland-based artist Carissa Potter's romantic vision of the world
Aug 16, 2022by 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.
Burning Man returns to Nevada desert with the theme 'Waking Dreams'
Jul 27, 2022by 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.
Art collective teamLab explores the heritage of Japan’s Kairakuen Garden
Mar 27, 2022by 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.
Word of Mouth
Jan 08, 2022by 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.
UNSCRIPTED with Yves Béhar: The ocean is my happy place
Oct 08, 2021by 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.
Sound and video art pundit Barbara London curates ‘Seeing Sound’, a travelling exhibit
Sep 15, 2021by 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.
San Francisco Design Week highlighted the role of power in creative disciplines
Aug 10, 2021by 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.
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?
‘Uncanny Valley’ interrogates the multifaceted possibilities of technology
Oct 22, 2020by 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.
Rangr Studio designs a radiant, earthquake resistant House of Light in Berkeley Hills
Sep 23, 2020by 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.
Ode to 'Steinabad': Joseph Allen Stein's affair with light, landscape and architecture
Apr 10, 2020by 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.
Sketching The Hibernia in San Francisco – a drawing tutorial by Dan Hogman
Feb 12, 2020by 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.
Sketching Transamerica Pyramid, Sentinel Building – a drawing tutorial by Dan Hogman
Jan 08, 2020by 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.
Sketching the Museum of Ice Cream, US - a drawing tutorial by Dan Hogman
Dec 18, 2019by 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.
Lenny Maughan marathons his way through San Francisco to create art
Dec 17, 2019by 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.
Sketching the de Young Museum - a drawing tutorial by Dan Hogman
Nov 20, 2019by 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.
Emerging Objects studio creates 3D printed mud objects at the scale of architecture
Oct 31, 2019by 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.
Sketching the Palace of Fine Arts - a drawing tutorial by Dan Hogman
Oct 23, 2019by 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.
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