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Media Matters in Landscape Architecture

Rene Submissions — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:15:00 +0000

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture makes a unique contribution to landscape architectural praxis for its explicit framing of “environmental media” in terms of its dual meaning within our discipline. In the sciences, environmental media are the materials of the natural world—soils, air, water, plants, microbes. Within STS and media studies, “environmental media” refers broadly to the relationship between environmental issues—such as pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change—and the creation and application of the tools, interfaces, and images, through which information about these issues is conveyed. This book focuses on how these two distinct understandings of environmental media coalesce within the discipline

Beyond the Lone Architect: Beatriz Colomina on Gender, Media, and Collaboration

Romullo Baratto — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0000

Architecture has long been framed as the work of singular visionaries, yet Beatriz Colomina, a leading theorist, historian, and curator, challenges this notion, arguing that architecture is inherently a collaborative endeavor. She critically examines how the myth of the lone genius—almost always depicted as male—has erased the contributions of countless women and entire teams involved in the design process. For Colomina, rethinking architecture means recognizing the complexities of collective work and dismantling the historical biases that have shaped the discipline's narratives.

Architecture and Communication: Dissemination, Curators and Architecture News

Nicolás Valencia — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

In 1999, Birgit Lohmann and Massimo Mini co-founded designboom, self-proclaimed as the "first online architecture and design magazine." Seven years later, Facebook transitioned from Ivy League universities to massive audiences, while the first tweet was posted on formerly-known Twitter. Sixteen years have passed since these milestones.

7 Alternative, Interdisciplinary Graduate Courses for Architects

Suneet Zishan Langar — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:30:00 +0000

As final juries draw to a close, graduating architecture students are left with a crucial decision to make. While some might take a plunge into the scary real world looking to gain professional experience, others might choose to further reinforce their architecture education and skill set. Of the latter, most enroll in an MArch program, or take well-trodden paths into urban design and planning, landscape architecture, historic preservation, or theory and criticism. But in an increasingly complex world faced with myriad problems, what about those graduate architects looking to bolster their education in other related disciplines that will give them a more unique perspective on design problems? Here, we shortlist seven alternative, interdisciplinary graduate programs offered by architecture schools worldwide.

How to Get a Job in Architecture Without Any Experience

Carlos Montilla — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:00:00 +0000

I believe one of the biggest problems recently graduated architects are encountering is their lack of professional experience. That’s totally normal. Without knowing what to do, finding employment in architecture can be very costly, both financially and time wise.

6 Reasons Cities Are Located Where They Are

Niall Patrick Walsh — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Frank Lloyd Wright once described cities as both ‘our glory and our menace’. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, architects are becoming increasingly interested in their origins. Many fields of historical, geographical, and spatial research are devoted to exploring the evolution of cities, revealing a set of similarities across the globe. In a recent video, Wendover Productions described a common set of characteristics linking some of our largest cities, six of which we have outlined below.

Call for Entries: COCA.17 MediActions (Deadline Extended)

Rene Submissions — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Architecture is no longer just a product of design and construction but also a vehicle of a social action. Communication and mediation are key to this process. The role of architects has to do more with interdisciplinary teamwork than with authorship.

Being an Architect: Then Versus Now

Sharon Lam — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Architecture, as a profession and discipline, has come a long way since Vitruvius. It continues to evolve alongside culture and technology, reflecting new developments and shifting values in society. Some changes are conscious and originate within the field of architecture itself, made as acts of disciplinary or professional progress; others changes are uncontrollable, arising from architecture's role in the wider world that is also changing. Below are just some of the changes that have taken place in recent decades:

The Blog As A Museum: Meganom Makes its Online Exhibition Debut with Thngs

Sharon Lam — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:30:00 +0000

Our experience of information is changing. We now consume more and more information digitally, with much of this being non-textual. Videos, photos and GIFs have become commonplace, with technology allowing these mediums to be as easily shareable as text. This gives way to another trend: the increase in the number and accessibility of online platforms. Not only is more information being digitized, but more dynamic ways of digitization are being developed; multimedia articles and online exhibitions, for example, hope to provide a more engaging way of sharing information.

#donotsettle Shows Us 6 Ways Visiting Buildings is Different to Viewing Them in the Media

Sharon Lam — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:30:00 +0000

New from the Belgian-Indonesian vlogging architect duo #donotsettle comes “6 Things You Don't See From Architecture Media (Until You Visit Them).” Known for their user-oriented architecture videos, in this video they present something slightly different to the usual, using a quick tour across several international cities to visit buildings by the likes of Herzog & de Meuron, Unstudio and OMA to demonstrate to viewers all of the experiential aspects of architecture that are often lacking in architecture media.

Ulterior Motives: OMA/AMO's Reinier de Graaf on "Research," Europe and the 2014 Venice Biennale

Reinier de Graaf — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:00:00 +0000

The following interview with Reinier De Graaf was first published by Volume Magazine in their 48th issue, The Research Turn. You can read the Editorial of this issue, Research Horizons, here.

P.O.P. [Published on Paper] A Talk of Slow Architecture Media

Rene Submissions — Tue, 17 May 2016 21:30:00 +0000

why?
Today we are in the midst of a paradox: although fast, web-based media seems to threaten the very existence of slow architecture media, the amount of p.o.p. magazines has increased in the last few years. Furthermore, and discarding arguments about fast consumption of information, some editorial projects aimed at a slow and attentive audience have managed to succeed in the middle of a huge flow of information. It seems that once the novelty of fast media has decreased, p.o.p. architecture magazines have regained the space they once had. However, are they the same kind of magazines we once knew? How can we explain the fact that an old format may stay alive against all odds? Is it stubbornness, nostalgia, or is it something else? The reasons behind this paradox are what we would like to discuss and explore in this session.

what?
P.O.P. will be a roundtable on printed architecture magazines which seeks to discuss the contemporary resurfacing of the stubborn and yet amazing endeavor of publishing on paper. We have gathered some of the most interesting editorial projects of the contemporary scene not only to share experiences and knowledge but also to witness a plethora of different discourses that still consider the p.o.p. format structural for architecture.

who?
Volume (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) presented by nick axel
The Real Review (London, uk) presented by shumi bose
ARQ (Santiago, Chile) presented by francisco díaz
San Rocco (Milano, Italy) presented by matteo ghidoni
The Avery Review (New York, usa) presented by james graham
Arquine (Mexico df, Mexico) presented by alejandro hernández

Roundtable moderated by: marcelo lópez-dinardi A(n) Office (New York)

when?
Wednesday May 25th, 2016. 3:00 – 4:30 pm

where?
Cotonificio Auditorium, Università IUAV di Venezia
Venice, Italy.

Organized by:
Schoo of Architecture at Universidad Católica de Chile
Università IUAV di Venezia

Monocle 24 Investigate What it Takes to Cover Architecture and Design

AD Editorial Team — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0000

This edition of Section D, Monocle 24's weekly review of design, architecture and craft turns its editorial gaze back to their "own turf" to consider ways in which publications cover design and architecture, both in print and online. The episode asks whether "traditional magazines are as influential as they used to be," and whether or not "clicks and online-only articles can actually pay the bills?" In search of answers, Monocle's Henry-Rees Sheridan talks to ArchDaily's co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, David Basulto, along with European Editor-at-Large James Taylor-Foster, about the origins of the platform – and more.