All articles by Sowmya Thuniki
Sowmya Thuniki
Richard Weston
When a professor of architecture finds that his work is ‘so last season’, is something seriously gone awry? Jamie Mitchell talks to Richard Weston, whose scan explorations into rocks, fossils and stones have found their way on to fashion items and accessories…
If You Build It, Will They Come?
Edwin Heathcote chaired a packed Architecture Foundation event to listen to architects’ presentations and discussion about new cultural projects. The big issue was, is there any steam left in the Bilbao Effect (the architectural extravaganza of Gehry’s Guggenheim transforming the city into a destination)?
Il Mio Milano: Philippe Starck on the Milan Salone
Blueprint catches up with design maestro and Salone veteran Philippe Starck on the eve of the world’s biggest design event, to find out what he’s upto and where he will be hanging out.
Richard Seifert: Reputations Reassessed
A catastrophic technical failure that wiped out any presentation visuals for an hour did not stop the Twentieth Century Society‘s Catherine Croft delivering a talk on the UK’s most successful commercial architect of the post-war era, Richard Seifert.
Simon Starling’s Black Drop
Oxford’s moniker as ‘the city of dreaming spires’ is invariably harped upon in the guidebooks. Though once immortalised in the poetry of gentleman-scholars, the city’s architectural beacons of power and learning are probably more often remembered today on the smartphones of the omnipresent herds of tourists who roam the city centre.
RIBA acquires Charles Correa archive: India’s ‘greatest’ architect
Celebrating 50 years of architectural work in India and the recent acquisition of his archive, RIBA is launching a new exhibition this spring – Charles Correa: Indian’s Greatest Architect.
Review: Black Eyes and Lemonade at the Whitechapel Gallery
Popular, outsider and ‘folk’ art seems to be undergoing somewhat of a resurgence over the last few years, brought back not least by the Museum of Everything‘s irregular appearances in spaces around London (and now the world). From March until September, East London’s Whitechapel Gallery is getting in on the action with an archive exhibition drawing on an exhibit first shown at the gallery in 1951.
Design Days Dubai 2013
Design fairs are becoming de rigeur for any city worth its cultural salt; increasing critical and commercial importance is transferring from traditional hubs of design, like Milan and Frankfurt, towards emerging markets such as Moscow, Gwangju and Mumbai.
Back to School in Brazil: aberrant architecture’s Venice Takeaway
Next up from the public programme of Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture at the RIBA: aberrant architecture‘s findings from their research in Brazil, which uncovered Oscar Niemeyer’s radical, experimental school-building programme during the 1980s in Rio de Janeiro. Led by Niemeyer, the scheme built over 500 prefab primary schools, known as CIEPs (Integrated Centres of Public Education).
Fischli & Weiss: Rocking the Serpentine
Probably the most basic of existential statements would be to pick up an object – a rock, let’s say – and deliberately place it atop another. Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ latest work exaggerates the profundity of doing so with two huge boulders in central London.