My cousin Perla gave me Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, I think after a not so easy trip we took together to a freezing Rome over New Year’s. We also visited Hadrian’s Villa, which is one of her favourite places. Although I have been to the villa a couple of times, I remember it as […]
Intended to reveal a history of women architects in Warsaw, the exhibition ARCHITEKTJI at ZODIAK Warszawski Pawilon Architektury (18.7.25 – 19.10.25) deploys an elegant curatorial structure to reveal the breadth of this history in parallel with five more intimate thematic and biographical stories. The exhibition is arranged in two parts. Within the loggia-like ground floor […]
This is a major monographic exhibition about the philosophy, work and material culture of leading architect and educator, Anupama Kundoo. The large temporary exhibition gallery of the Architektur Zentrum Wien is remade to evoke the atmospheres and material techniques of Kundoo’s Wall House of 2000 built in Auroville where the architect lived until 2002 and […]
Abigail Van Slyck examines the gendered implications of “the tendency to sacrifice the historic interior” in the name of “emphasizing the integrity of the architectural shell” through the preservation of historic early 20th century American libraries. The text examines how these preservation projects facilitate the erasure of traces of women’s labour in library spaces. Van […]