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Category Archives: architecture

THE SERPENTINE PAVILION

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

For weeks now we’ve been wanting to let it elegantly slip in that oh, by the way, our hugely popular issue #22 with Ai Weiwei is dangerously close to being sold out, so if you should happen to want one, you should really go here now, and don’t say we didn’t warn you – but [...]

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ARCHIZINES BERLIN

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

We mentioned Archizines, an online archive for architecture periodicals, before, and editor Elias Redstone has done a great job touring the collection around the world in one large traveling exhibition. Tomorrow and just in time for the Gallery Weekend, the archive will find its way to Berlin, at Do You Read Me?!’s Reading Room, accompanied [...]

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CHAOTIC AND POETIC

Monday, April 23, 2012

Melting, skeletal sculptures; order in disorder. Are the sculptures of Syrian artist Diana Al Hadid from a dystopian world?

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TALDANS IN JUDSON CHURCH

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A performance by the Turkish contemporary dance company Taldans in Judson Church New York City where the legendary Judson Dance Theater was performing in 1960s.

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THE BIG CRUNCH

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Raumlabor is a collective working on contemporary architecture, art and urbanism. Besides marketstand structures of Markthalle IX and an exhibition space for Transmediale 12, installations such as the lovely lady Rosy or the bug like structure, made out of used materials, are designed by these Berlin based architects.

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Ai Weiwei is also an Architect

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mathieu Wellner, our friend and interviewer of mono.kultur #22, will give an introduction to  Ai Weiwei’s work as an architect in Graz tonight. Don’t miss it!
Although Ai Weiwei had already successfully realized more than 60 different building projects, three years ago, he and his team Fake Design decided to take on no further commissions. They had [...]

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ARCHIZINO MILANO

Friday, January 27, 2012

The idea of a traveling magazine library might not be new, but there are few who pursue this with such vigour as Elias Redstone with his Archizines collection, gathering a rather excellent selection of printed matter on architecture. Previously on display at the Architectural Association and now in the permanent collection at the library of [...]

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THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Sometimes the best ideas are the most obvious ones, and you wonder why no one’s thought of them before. For instance, why should bridges be suspended high above the waters they cross? Why not make them on water level? It must have been a moment for excitement for Dutch Ro-Ad architects when they came up [...]

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Hammer and sickle disappear from central Berlin

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aeroflot throws its iconic Berlin signage out with the trash
One of the last hammer and sickle emblems in Berlin has disappeared from its prominent place in the centre of the city.
The hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism and the Soviet Union – was removed from most public buildings across the former [...]

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ARCHIZINES

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Whereas, over in London, Elias Redstone, the founder of the online architectural magazine library Archizines, has curated a show of 60 architectural titles at the renowned Architectural Association, including our almost sold-out issue #18 on MVRDV. Follow his week of guest-posting some of his personal favourites over at It’s Nice That this week, or even [...]

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