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To mark the centenary of the publication of the Futurist Manifesto of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro on the 20th February 1909, the Centre Pompidou currently presents “Le Futurism à Paris – une avant-garde explosive“. A visual sound installation by the artist Jeff Mills offers a contemporary [...]

How does it sound, when an artist marks a terrace with staves and the passersby serve as notes? Swiss artist Navid Tschopp has tested it with his art intervention Sigi Feigel Sonata. Swiss artist Navid Tschopp is known for his art interventions and performances such as Topological Agenda and his Weihnachtsaktion zur Finanzkrise (Christmas Campaign [...]

Shahryar Nashat’s third solo show at Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery Zurich is called “Because The Ultimate Foundation Is Not Founded”. “Facing Nashat’s artwork enables visitors to experience surprising juxtapositions of reverse moments which offer a most favourable opportunity to sharpen one’s own perception.” Excerpt of a statement on Shahryar Nashat by Denise Frey at the gallery’s [...]

While other artists paint with brushes, light, or sounds, American artist Wade Guyton (born in Hammond, Indiana in 1972) paints with an inkjet printer. For his exhibition at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, Wade Guyton uses canvases with a width of 1.75 meters. Because the printer can only process half of the width, Wade Guyton [...]

As part of the first edition of the St. Moritz Art Masters (SAM), there’s an exhibition with 5 sculptures of Frank Stella’s Bali Series and 3 sculptures of the Scarlatti Series (Courtesy Ficher Rohr Gallery, Basel). The exhibition is presented in the Paracelsus Building near the Hotel Kempinski, an old pump room of the St. [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

With the 2009 edition, Design Miami celebrates its 5th Anniversary. Design Miami starts a day earlier than the art fair Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), and presents works that could also easily be shown at ABMB, Maarten Baas’ Real Time project, for example, or the Workshop Workshop project by Jim Drain, Graham Hudson and P. [...]

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is considered as one of the most innovative interior architects and furniture designers of the 20th century. She developed designs for tubular steel furniture, particularly in cooperation with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Beginning in the early 1930s, she discovered photography as a medium that provided important impulses for her work as [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

Interview with producer Laurence Desarzens about Resfest Switzerland 2005. Resfest is a film festival taking place in several cities in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Zurich is the tour city in Switzerland with Resfest Switzerland being produced by Laurence Desarzens and Monica Pozzi. This year’s festival was held at the movie theater Riffraff in [...]