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Semana Carlos Motta
September 21–24 marks Semana Carlos Motta, or Carlos Motta Week, with a series of New York events to celebrate the work of the Brazilian architect and furniture designer known for his use of...
written by: Erika Heet09.19.10 -
Speed Limits at the Wolfsonian
It's easy to forget, considering how much technology we interact with today, that the roots of modernism have everything to do with making sense of the machine. The industrial machine offered modes...
written by: Aaron Britt09.17.10 -
Dwell at Architecture and the City
Indian summer is all well and good, though in San Francisco the real treat of September is the SF AIA's Architecture and the City festival. It runs the gamuts from tours to lectures to talks, and...
written by: Aaron Britt09.15.10 -
Bangkok's Storied Shophouses
Cities and countries have many faces, and the one known to travelers and foreigners often differs from that of the everyday. In his photo series "Shophouses" German photographer Peter...
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Peter Nitsch09.14.10 -
Nature/Data at Industry Gallery
On Saturday, Industry Gallery in Washington DC opened the show Nature/Data to showcase the work of the New York–based Italian architect and furniture designer Antonio Pio Saracino. Taking the...
written by: Aaron Britt09.13.10 -
"Fare" Trade Furniture
As Andy Freeberg perused Chelsea's galleries he noticed an interesting phenomenon: at some of the most prominent galleries, the only human presence was a person's head poking from the top of an...
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Andy Freeberg09.12.10 -
Urban Africa and Sustainable Futures
This weekend marks the end of two exhibition's at London's Design Museum. Closing are Urban Africa: David Adjaye's Photographic Journey, which opened March 31, and Sustainable Futures: Can Design...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.10.10 -
Photos of Brasilia at 1500 Gallery
I've always been fascinated with instant cities, usually planless boomtowns based on a quick commercial strike or immediately evolved to absorb the overflow of some metropolis. But occasionally...
written by: Aaron Britt09.08.10 -
SFMOMA talks Olivetti's Design
Earlier this year SFMOMA hosted a big extravaganza marking the opening of it's 75th anniversary show 75 Years of Looking Forward. In addition to finely-curated group of paintings and objects, a...
written by: Aaron Britt08.31.10 -
Architecture + the City Kicks Off
This weekend, the seventh annual Architecture + the City kicks off in San Francisco. Organized by the American Institute of Architecture San Francisco chapter and the Center for Architecture +...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.27.10 -
New Cottages at Fallingwater
This weekend, Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater exhibition closes at the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Earlier this year, the Western...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.22.10 -
James Dyson Award Finalists
The James Dyson Award, which "seeks to single out the best in problem-solving student design," recently announced their regional finalists, selected from over 500 submission entries. The...
written by: Jaime Gillin08.13.10 -
Herman Miller in Syracuse, NY
We've sent Dwell senior editor Aaron Britt to Michigan to visit the Herman Miller factory and Herman Miller has sent some of its collection to Syracuse, New York, for the new Good Design: Stories...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.11.10 -
Dreamlands
There are moments now and then that the architecture of our imaginations becomes the architecture of an actual place. Amusement parks can bring Hogwarts castle and the lands of Pirates of the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.03.10 -
Industry Gallery: Getting to Now
Industry Gallery in Washington DC is the only gallery dedicated to 21st-century design in the US, and they've got a new show up right now that's of some interest. Getting to Now: Pathways to 21st...
written by: Aaron Britt07.30.10 -
TechnoCRAFT
Out-of-the-box is so old school. On view now at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco is TechnoCRAFT, an exhibit that exhibit focuses in on the current trend of adapting a mass...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake07.24.10 -
Our Cities Ourselves at AIANY
Our world is becoming more and more urban. Today, as Dwell contributor Mark Lamster reported for our June 2010 Megacities issue, more than 75 cities boast populations of more than 5 million. While...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake07.21.10 -
Films for Design Aficionados
In conjunction with TechnoCRAFT, an exhibition at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that explores the fading boundary between the role of designer and consumer, curator Joel Shepard...
written by: Jaime Gillin07.20.10 -
Canada's Design Domestic
Design Domestic is a photo-based exhibit featuring nine Canadian designers and artists in their homes. Through the photos and objects presented, the exhibition captures glimpses of some of...
written by: Diana Budds07.19.10 -
Land Use Survey at Jen Bekman Gallery
Land Use Survey is a new show up at the gallery Jen Bekman in New York through August 15th. It's a group show that ranges across media that tries to understand how we use land in America, and it's...
written by: Aaron Britt07.17.10
