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Extending the table: STIR in conversation with Koray Duman
Apr 02, 2026
An Eid dinner in New York becomes a lens into the Turkish American architect’s ideas of space, migration and community.
Farrokh Derakhshani on architecture awards and expanding notions of design
Oct 28, 2025
STIR speaks to the director of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture on the evolving role of award organisations in shaping the meaning of ‘good architecture’ rooted in local contexts.
Balkrishna Doshi’s final work finds its home on the Vitra Campus
Oct 26, 2025
The first and only built project outside of India by BV Doshi opened posthumously as an “invitation to embark on a journey of discovery” in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
An iconography of the past, a blueprint for the future: Building a Workshop with RPBW
Oct 24, 2025
STIR presents an exclusive video essay with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, journeying across its studios, spaces and methods in Paris and Genoa, and its projects worldwide.
Countermapping a Geology of Britannic Repair at Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Oct 10, 2025
Earmarking the Biennale's culmination, STIR speaks to the team behind this year’s British Pavilion, notably a collaboration with Kenya, seeking to probe contentious colonial legacies.
ADFF:STIR's London Curtain Raiser sets the stage for 2026 with dialogue and community
Oct 01, 2025
With a special screening and vibrant drinks reception, the Curtain Raiser at LDF 2025 showed how ADFF:STIR connects design, cinema, culture and storytelling at the seams.
Building through fragility: The making of a Pan-African Architecture Biennale
Aug 08, 2025
In a contemplative conversation with STIR, Somali-Italian architect Omar Degan outlines a biennale shaped not by spectacle, but by resistance, pedagogy and presence.
Philippe Rahm on reconsidering the tools of the discipline with climatic architecture
Jul 04, 2025
STIR speaks to the Swiss architect on his curation for BAP! 2025 in Versailles, his studio's research prerogatives and adapting to global warming as a central strategy for architecture.
Tosin Oshinowo on informal urbanisms in Lagos and the correct end of progress
Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
Phyllis Birkby’s lesbian feminist architecture and the probing of fantasy as resistance
Jun 20, 2025
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture at the Center for Architecture, New York, delves into feminist design as a lens to reimagine architecture.
A cabinet of curiosities, laid bare: V&A East Storehouse rethinks the museum archetype
Jun 13, 2025
STIR speaks to Elizabeth Diller and David Allin of DS+R, and Tim Reeve of V&A, on the accessible, custodial and generous nature of the new V&A Storehouse in London.
“Temporality has a presence,” says Marina Tabassum on the Serpentine Pavilion 2025
Jun 03, 2025
STIR interviews the Bangladeshi architect on her commission for the 25th Serpentine Pavilion, probing its parallels with her studio's work and its contextual and ephemeral ethos.
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