Chinese architect Liu Jiakun has been named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that “celebrate the everyday lives of people”. Liu is the 54th laureate of the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is considered the most significant award in international architecture. This year’s jury, chaired by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, … Read more
Painter and cofounder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture spoke with Metropolis about the early days of OMA, pursuing a career as an artist, and her new solo show at the Carnegie Museum of Art. By Molly Heintz
In the final installment of our summer series, Curbed’s architecture critic re-reads all 1,344 pages of the Dutch architect’s “S,M,L,XL” Curbed’s architecture critic Alexandra Lange takes a fresh look at classics of the architectural canon. S,M,L,XL does not hide its ambition: 1,344 pages. Three inches thick. A dictionary, a chronology, a comic, an excerpt from … Read more
“Koolhaas’s heroic trajectory provides an impossible formula for success, combining unquestioned genius with a waning culture of willingness to embrace the figure of the starchitect Rem Koolhaas does not do small talk. I discovered this last year in Melbourne when attempting to break an awkward silence between us. Wasn’t Australia a long way to come … Read more
Alejandro Zaera-Polo in conversation with Roemer van Toorn The Berlage Institute from A to Z RvT Universities and schools of architecture help people to become an architect, in the same way you learn to be a lawyer or a doctor. With Wiel Arets as dean the Berlage-Institute was after another kind of teaching. The students … Read more
“The longer I work at O.M.A., the less I understand how architecture is developed,” said a former colleague from O.M.A. to me recently, as we were speaking about his work. Does the office have the character of a Zen Buddhist monastery, in which believers’ certainties are systematically destroyed in order to reveal to them the … Read more