by Laura Rote | Dec 11, 2019 | Insights
1. I’d wish I’d known succinctly that hard work would pay off. I was frustrated by the perceived ghosts you’d hear about. I thought you needed glowing accreditations and prestigious college degrees and a host of frivolities like “good looks” and “family money” and...
by Kimberly Hughes | Dec 5, 2019 | Architecture
The award-winning architect is known for projects like his stacked rock house in Chile, a music hall that opens into a Hungarian forest, and minimalist homes all over Japan. He has a global following, with one fan describing the effort to find one of his Tokyo...
by Stephen Gossett | Jul 24, 2019 | Interviews
I first encountered Tatiana Bilbao’s work in person in 2015, when she exhibited her now much-acclaimed flexible prototype for social housing at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The house can be built for as little as $8,000, but its modular design guarantees true...
by Haydee Touitou | Jul 22, 2019 | Interviews
If you went to high school in France in the early 2000s, you had to take a course called Technologie, our version of Home Ec where we learned to use a soldering iron, make a bike light, or—and I’m quoting the curriculum—appreciate “the evolution of objects through...
by Dianne Pineda-Kim | Jun 21, 2019 | Interviews
Tucked away from Gangnam’s sleek, urban surroundings is a quiet, unassuming residential building that ironically houses the workspace of Moon Hoon, a Korean architect known for his oftentimes playful, outlandish creations. But if there’s any indication of his...
by Zoe Sessums | May 30, 2019 | Interviews
In the back corner of a large building in Dumbo, bars and shops at the base and a maze of offices and studios throughout, I find my way to an assembly of colorful, thin, planar elements: creatures, structures, surfaces. This is the space of Marc Fornes, architect and...
by Leanne Wong | May 28, 2019 | Architecture
“We have many great, international-standard architects in China, but talking rights still go to Western architects.” It’s a bold statement, and one made by a particularly unassuming figure. Dressed casually in a worn-in cardigan and flat cap, Beijing-based architect...
by Chris Force | May 23, 2019 | News
Sixtysix magazine is back with our sophomore print issue, delving further into “the craft of creativity” with living legends and emerging voices of the global design community. The nearly 200-page issue is available worldwide now. The Spring/Summer 2019...
by Stephen Gossett | Feb 14, 2019 | Architects, News
The five finalists have been announced for the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture, more popularly known as the Mies van der Rohe Award. The coveted prize is handed out biennially, honoring outstanding contemporary architecture completed within the previous...
by Chris Force | Jan 18, 2019 | Recommended
Quick. What do a biker cap, Gucci wallpaper, and architectural chocolate have in common? Not much, to be honest, aside from the fact that we’re fond of them all. We quickly rounded up six recommended faves that recently hit our radar—a few guilty pleasures and some...
by Marco Villca | Dec 26, 2018 | Architects
Freddy Mamani Silvestre is not like other Bolivians. An indigenous Aymara (a prominent indigenous group in Bolivia and Peru, with smaller populations in Argentina and Chile), Freddy once lived in a small house made of earth blocks and paja brava, a local grass, in the...
by Maia Welbel | Apr 30, 2018 | Architects, News
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a private residence in the Barkhiva Forest near Moscow that pushes the boundaries of structural possibility. The Capital Hill Residence belongs to businessman and philanthropist, Vadislov Doronin, who requested a view of the forest...
