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Riken Yamamoto.

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto wins 2024 Pritzker Prize

5 Mar 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Riken Yamamoto is the 53rd Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the ninth to hail from Japan.

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Acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author, racial advocate, and curator, Lesley Lokko is the first woman of African descent to receive the Royal Gold Medal 2024 for architecture.

‘Fierce champion of equity and inclusion’ Lesley Lokko awarded 2024 RIBA Gold Medal

31 Jan 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author, racial advocate, and curator, Lesley Lokko is the first woman of African descent to receive the Royal Gold Medal 2024 for architecture.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2024 designed by Minsuk Cho, Mass Studies. Design render, exterior view. Photo © Mass Studies.

Architect of 23rd Serpentine Pavilion revealed

25 Jan 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm, Mass Studies, have been revealed as the designers of the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion in London.

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Carlo Ratti has been appointed by La Biennale di Venezia to curate Venice's International Architecture Exhibition in 2025.

Carlo Ratti named curator of Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

18 Jan 2024, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Carlo Ratti, an esteemed architect, engineer, and academic, has been appointed by the board of directors of La Biennale di Venezia to curate the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in 2025.

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The house was the Aaltos’ home and studio, a place for living, working and learning-by-doing.

The passion projects of Alvar and Aino Aalto’s own home

8 Dec 2023, Sarah Lebner

A visit to the Aalto House in Finland, designed in 1936 by a young Alvar and Aino Aalto, is a lesson in experimentation and delighting in the imperfect.

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The 2023 Dulux Study Tour winners at Saint Benedict Chapel by Peter Zumthor. L–R: Tiffany Liew, Ellen Buttrose, Sarah Lebner, Bradley Kerr, and Edwina Brisbane.

From regional romanticism to reconciliation: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Vals, Zürich, Venice

6 Jun 2023, Linda Cheng

The final leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2023 Dulux Study Tour was like an architectural amazing race from Zürich to the Alpine Rhine Valley, back to Zürich, ending at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

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The 2023 Dulux Study Tour winners, L–R: Tiffany Liew, Ellen Buttrose, Sarah Lebner, Bradley Kerr and Edwina Brisban.

Palimpsest and palindrome: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Lisbon

5 Jun 2023, Linda Cheng

The 2023 Dulux Study Tour makes its way to Lisbon, a city where the time-space continuum is written into the urban fabric.

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The 2023 Dulux Study Tour winners at Amos Rex Art Museum by JKMM. L–R: Bradley Kerr, Sarah Lebner, Tiffany Liew, Ellen Buttrose, and Edwina Brisbane

Material culture: 2023 Dulux Study Tour, Helsinki

26 May 2023, Linda Cheng

The first leg of the 2023 Dulux Study Tour visited Helsinki: traditionally a city of red granite, copper and experiments with new materials.

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David Chipperfield.

David Chipperfield wins 2023 Pritzker Prize

8 Mar 2023, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The 2023 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to English architect David Chipperfield “for the rigour, integrity and pertinence of a body of work that – beyond the realm of the architecture discipline – speaks for his social and environmental commitment,” said the jury.

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SANAA directors Kazuyo Sejima (left) and Ryue Nishizawa.

2023 winners of Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes revealed

13 Feb 2023, Isla Sutherland

The Architectural Review and Architects Journal (AJ) have named the winners of the 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes.

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Balkrishna Doshi.

Pritzker laureate Balkrishna Doshi dies aged 95

25 Jan 2023, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Indian modernist architect, and winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Balkrishna Doshi has died at his home in Ahmedabad aged 95.

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Arata Isozaki.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect dies aged 91

3 Jan 2023, Isla Sutherland

Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has passed away at his home in the prefecture of Okinawa, aged 91.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023 designed by Lina Ghotmeh (render, exterior view).

Serpentine Galleries reveals 2023 pavilion

29 Nov 2022, Isla Sutherland

London’s Serpentine Galleries has announced the recipient of the 22nd pavilion commission is Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, whose structure will occupy the gardens of Serpentine South from June 2023.

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SANAA named winner of 2022 Praemium Imperiale for architecture.

SANAA receives Praemium Imperiale architecture award

19 Sep 2022, Isla Sutherland

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese architecture practice SANAA were awarded the prize for architecture in recognition of their contribution to the profession.

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Old City Itsukushima, Hiroshima Bay.

Experience the best of Japan’s built environment with an architectural travelling tour

20 Jul 2022, Isla Sutherland

Travelrite’s architecture tour of Japan returns following the Japanese government’s recent move to permit specialized group tours to enter the country.

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“The Laboratory of the Future” will be the theme for the 18th edition of the exhibition, which will hold the African experience at centre stage for the first time.

‘Laboratory of the future’: 2023 Venice Biennale theme revealed

14 Jun 2022, Isla Sutherland

The president of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto and exhibition curator Lesley Lokko have jointly announced the theme for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2022 designed by Theaster Gates.

Serpentine Galleries’ Black Chapel pavilion channels light from above

9 Jun 2022, Isla Sutherland

A central oculus in Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel emanates a single source of light to create a “sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality”.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Francis Kéré selected for 2022 Pritzker Prize Laureate

16 Mar 2022, Isla Sutherland

Architect, educator and social activist Diébédo Francis Kéré has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2022.

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Stahl House or Case Study House #22 by Pierre Koenig cantilevers dramatically over a clifftop in the Hollywood Hills.

Iconic Case Study house at risk

17 Feb 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

An icon of modernist residential architecture could be at risk, after the City of Los Angeles approved a development on the lot below the clifftop it sits on.

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Black Chapel by Chicago artist Theaster Gates with architectural support from Adjaye Associates.

Serpentine Pavilion channels spirit of the black chapel

10 Feb 2022, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Designs have been unveiled for the 21st Serpentine Pavilion in London by Chicago artist Theaster Gates with architectural support from Adjaye Associates.

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Lesley Lokko.

Lesley Lokko appointed curator of Venice Architecture Biennale

16 Dec 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Lesley Lokko will curate the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held in 2023.

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Balkrishna Doshi.

Balkrishna Doshi wins RIBA Gold Medal

13 Dec 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been named the winner of the Royal Gold Medal 2022 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

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CopenHill, or Amager Bakke, by Bjarke Ingels Group.

Bjarke Ingels Group wins 2021 World Building of the Year

9 Dec 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Bjarke Ingels Group’s waste-to-energy plant with a ski slope on its roof has been named World Building of the Year at the 14th annual World Architecture Festival (WAF).

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River Frames by PORT.

Vacant Chicago sites become canvas for fourth architecture biennial

21 Sep 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, themed The Available City, presents the more than 10,000 city-owned vacant lots for deeper engagement with the community.

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Alison Killing, the British-born, Rotterdam-based architect, and now Pulitzer Prize winner.

Architect wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing Chinese internment camps

29 Jun 2021, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A British-born, Rotterdam-based architect is part of a team whose investigation revealed secret prisons and internment camps built in China’s Xinjiang province to detain Muslim minorities.

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Alejandro Aravena.

Alejandro Aravena appointed chair of Pritzker Prize jury

30 Oct 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.

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The 2019 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.

World Architecture Festival postponed until 2021

28 Aug 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The organizer of World Architecture Festival and Inside World Festival of Interiors has postponed the twin design festivals until mid-2021.

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Somewhere Other by John Wardle Architects at the 2018 main exhibition.

Venice Architecture Biennale postponed until 2021

19 May 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again cause the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale to be postponed.

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Rifat Chadirji was born in Baghdad in 1926.

Father of modern Iraqi architecture dies of COVID-19

16 Apr 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Rifat Chadirji, the prominent Iraqi architect, photographer and author, has died in London at the age of 93 after contracting COVID-19.

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Can Lis by Jørn Utzon.

Desktop destinations: visit some faraway architectural gems

9 Apr 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

We round up some of ArchitectureAU’s most memorable “postcards,” where architects and writers report back on their visits to architectural wonders around the world.

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Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin, ‘supremely gifted’ theorist and architect, dies from COVID-19

27 Mar 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

American architect, theorist and urbanist Michael Sorkin has died in New York after contracting COVID-19.

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Vittorio Gregotti.

Forefather of Venice Architecture Biennale dies of coronavirus

17 Mar 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Vittorio Gregotti, an Italian architect who curated the first architecture show at the Venice Art Biennale in 1975, has passed away in Milan.

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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

Pritzker Prize awarded to all-female partnership

4 Mar 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Architecture’s highest honour has been awarded to two women for the first time in its history.

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Duomo di Milano.

Milan Furniture Fair postponed due to coronavirus

26 Feb 2020, Patrick Hunn

One of the world’s most design trade events has been postponed due to the largest outbreak of coronavirus outside of Asia.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2020 designed by Counterspace, Design Render, Exterior View.

All female, youngest ever team commissioned for 2020 Serpentine Pavilion

11 Feb 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

In its 20th year, the popular temporary architecture installation at London’s Serpentine Galleries will be designed by a South African practice headed by three women all born in 1990.

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Pakistan’s first woman architect Yasmeen Lari.

Humanitarian architect wins global women in architecture award

22 Jan 2020, ArchitectureAU Editorial

Pakistan’s first female architect, who’s had a decades-long career in humanitarian architecture, has been honoured in the 2020 W Awards.

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LocHal Architects by Civic Architects, Braaksma and Roos Architectenbureau and Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse.

‘Social condenser’ public library wins World Building of the Year

11 Dec 2019, ArchitectureAU Editorial

A Dutch library has been named the World Building of the Year at the 2019 World Architecture Festival.

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The view from the top of Pinnacle at Duxton.

A tale of two cities: Dulux DIAlogue on Tour, Singapore

15 Oct 2019, Felicia Toh

From socially conscious community projects to the Crazy Rich Asians side of design, Singapore is a city with two distinct identities.

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Matt Liggins inside the Vitruvian Tunnel.

Vitruvian Tunnel asks: ‘Is charm underrated?’

9 Oct 2019, Andrew Barrie

An installation in Auckland “remind us just how public-spirited and engaging architecture can be.”

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Split bamboo arched trusses were used for the community training centre, near Dawei; this solution was adopted because the local bamboo species is prone to splitting.

The bamboo frontier

9 Jul 2019, Richard Morris

Kiwi architect Richard Morris reflects on the trials, challenges and rewards of working with bamboo construction in Myanmar.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2019 Designed by Junya Ishigami, Serpentine Gallery, London

Meditation on a roof: Junya Ishigami completes slate-topped Serpentine Pavilion

21 Jun 2019, Patrick Hunn

The construction of the 2019 edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion comission in London’s Kensington Gardens has been completed.

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