Founded in 1995 in memory of the April Revolution in 1960 and the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980, the Gwangju Biennale is one of the oldest and most renowned modern art biennales in Asia. Under the direction of such prominent curators as Yong-woo Lee, Massimiliano Gioni, Okwui Enwezor, Charles Esche, Hou Hanru, Hong-hee Kim, Kwangsoo Oh, Wan-kyoung Dung, Young-chul Lee, Kerry Brougher, Suk-won Chang, and Harald Szeemann, Gwangju Biennale has established itself as a major play...

What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.

This book was not guided by theory, yet it grew out of a search for new ways to look at authorship, ideas and inspiration. The experimental and playful character of the project itself, with its unpredictable outcomes, allowed for a much needed change of perspective—away from the traditional approach to creation characteristic of modernity and towards inspirat...

Nosso Lar, Brasília onderzoekt de relatie tussen spiritisme en Modernism in Braziliaanse architectuur. Centraal in het boek staat een systematische vergelijking van de spiritistische stad Nosso Lar (1944), zoals beschreven door het medium Chico de Xavier; en de modernistische ideaalstad Brasília (1956), de hoofdstad van Brazilië, naar een ontwerp van Lúcio Costa en Oscar Niemeyer.

Jonas Staal (1981) is beeldend kunstenaar. In zijn werk staat de relatie tussen kunst, democratie en propagan...

With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the...

Footprint #28 examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to ...

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.

The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...

"In dit huis zullen de muren lesgeven", verkondigde het sovjet persbureau Pravda in 1962 bij de opening van het Paleis voor Jonge Pioniers in Moskou. Terloops toont deze verklaring een steeds terugkomend motief in de geschiedenis van de architectuur voor de jeugd: de aanspraak op te kunnen voeden door middel van de gebouwde omgeving. De jeugd werd gezien als ideale doelgroep voor deze sociaal-constructivistische benadering, vanwege hun ambivalente positie: wel objecten van sociale wetgeving m...

'Reuse to Reduce. Architecture within a Carbon Budget. The Case of BioPartner 5'is a plea by Popma ter Steege Architects to embrace the circular transition as a chance for a more meaningful architecture. An architecture that employs the necessary reuse of building materials to rethink our needs, way of building and aesthetics. It is a plea for design shaped by planetary boundaries and the use of a carbon budget as a tool for this. It wants to help shift the discourse on circularity towards de...