Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Assemble’s distinctive curation is low on models of buildings, instead presenting itself as an industrial warehouse space, but risks being more gnomic than ever as a result, says Rob Wilson
The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of sketches and concept drawings by architects and designers. Today’s sketches are by Robert Cox, a director at ADAM Architecture
Teshome Douglas-Campbell explores how a new show, ‘The World to Me Was Secret’, from Turner-Prize-winning artist Shani draws on influences ranging from the myth of Frankenstein to Charles Jencks’ own work
Looking around Belgium to see who was doing what with salvaged architectural materials, reuse activists Rotor came across something quite unexpected: the prolific, jaw-dropping work of artist-turned-builder Marcel Raymaekers
Raise the Roof: Building for Change, which questions the institute’s own attitudes on gender, ethnicity and race, comes at a time when the RIBA is examining its legacy and its future, writes Derin Fadina
Adding to its series of world architecture atlases, Phaidon’s new volume is dedicated to schemes that never made it to site. Rob Wilson previews it
Rakesh Ramchurn visits the Design Museum to see the first UK show dedicated to pioneering Italian designer Enzo Mari
The Mumbai practice’s takeover of Paris’s Fondation Cartier galleries and gardens presents objects and installations in a way that makes visitors find their own way through the spaces
Having worked with Le Corbusier, Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to the US at a time when it was lacking in Modernist architecture and went on to design much of the desert city of Palm Springs, where a new exhibition celebrates his work, writes David Brady
Newcastle University architectural historian Stephen Parnell asked his students to create one of the AR’s unpublished Manplan issues using ChatGPT and Midjourney. Images by Vincent Woehlbier and Arthur Belime
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