Architects Billie Tsien & Tod Williams have been at the forefront of crafting buildings for the past 30 years. As an act of profound optimism, they view architecture as having the potential to give a sense of grace to life. Speaking of their work on public buildings, they shed light on their studio practice where […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #60: Billie Tsien & Tod Williams
Hella Jongerius’s process-driven approach calls into question many of the standard presumptions of the design profession. In our interview, she discussed her critique of contemporary culture’s obsession with the new, and her ongoing attempt to “search beyond appearances,” transcending industrial systems of production: “a search for quality, for oxygen.” Watch the conversation here: […]
Carla Fernández & Pedro Reyes are a creative couple living and working in Mexico City. As a fashion designer collaborating with communities and a sculptor working with social interaction, they share a fierce passion for the preservation of indigenous, modernist, and contemporary Mexican culture. Speaking from their celebrated self-designed home as laboratory, they presented their […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #58: Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández
Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of the architecture and design firm SO-IL discussed their international practice, which ranges across scales from the object to the city. Whether designing seating or an entire museum, SO-IL’s work is always activated by the core principle of increasing public awareness about our social and physical surroundings. Watch the […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #57: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu
London-born Beatrice Galilee is the cofounder and executive director of The World Around design conference. Over the past decade, her positions and projects have ranged from the Metropolitan Museum’s first associate curator of architecture & design to co-curating three architecture biennales, to launching the popular lecture series, In Our Time, A Year of Architecture In […]
Felix Burrichter is the editor of PIN-UP – “the only biannual Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” – now approaching its fifteen-year anniversary. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, he told the story of this inventive and influential publication, and also talked about three curatorial projects: ‘Superbenches’ in Järfälla, Sweden; ‘Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau’ at the Swiss […]
As museums around the world struggle to reopen, the MAXXI architecture museum in Rome has launched the innovative Casa Mondo exhibition on Instagram. @maxxicasamondo is the museum’s first digital exhibition and may even be the first of its kind to draw on archival material, feature a fully designed digital exhibition space by Formafantasma, and commission […]
Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin, curators at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, have built Australia’s most ambitious museum program for contemporary design. In this conversation with Glenn Adamson, they described past commissions and exhibitions, and offered a sneak preview of the design components in the forthcoming NGV Triennial. Watch the conversation here: […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #53: Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin
Ekene Ijeoma is an artist based between Brooklyn and Boston working at the intersections of life experiences, data studies, performance, and social efficacy creating artworks ranging from apps and websites to music performances and interactive installations. Through multiple fields of research, he translates data into multimedia using computational design and conceptual art strategies. Ekene recently […]
Dan Barber, a leading voice on local food and sustainability and the ceramist Gregg Moore discussed how their conversations and Gregg’s craftsmanship draws on the materiality of the farm landscape to provide a deeply thoughtful and aesthetically resolved dining experience. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #51: Dan Barber and Gregg Moore
Montreal natives and twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart are the founders of GOODEE, an e-commerce direct-to-consumer platform that brings together the values of good design and good purpose across the home, beauty, accessory, and design stories told on the site and embodied in the brands featured. Our conversation will span the broad range of […]
Read More… from Design in Dialogue #50: Byron and Dexter Peart
