Tiffany Chu is a summer-intern-turned-contributing blogger for Dwell. Based in Boston, she is a recent graduate from MIT with degrees in architecture and comparative media studies. Besides writing and designing, her passions include photography, cartography, and all things Scandinavian. By day, she currently works at the design and innovation consultancy, Continuum. By night, she dilly-dallies in… more ›
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A Pilgrimage to Zumthor's Chapel
I recently made a Peter Zumthor pilgrimage to Switzerland, where many of his seminal works sit within a 40 mile radius one another in the northeastern part of the country. An architectural…
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Venice Biennale: Giardini
Although the Venice Architecture Biennale invades all nooks and crannies of the four-square-mile island, most of the festival's big-hitters reside under the roof of only one building, the…
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Follow Us, Friend Us!
Dear Dwell Reader: Many thanks to all of you—we've hit a couple milestones recently, and we wanted to share them with you. Last week, we unveiled our ten-year anniversary issue (on…
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Czech Trek at the Biennale
Out of all of the exhibits at the Venice Biennale this year, I spent the most time sitting and playing inside the pavilion of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Along with being interactive…
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Venice Biennale: Raumlabor Berlin
One of the most interesting things to see at an architecture festival is not necessarily the final aha! moment after a pavilion is finished, but the collaborative process of building. At this…
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Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 2
As promised, here is the second part of our grand tour through the national pavilions at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Sejima forecasted well - the strongest crowd-pleasers were not the ones that…
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Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 1
The concept of each country showing their best colors at the Venice Biennale began from 1895, in the same spirit of nationalism (or chauvinism) of the World's Fair. This year, proceeding…
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Venice Biennale: Arsenale
I was once told, "If you ever go to the Venice Biennale, you will see all of the architecture that the world will be seeing for the next two years." So here I am, at the opening of…
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The Design of the Paris Metro
The Paris metro was born with the same furor as the Eiffel Tower, right on time for the World Expo at the turn of the 20th century. Over the past few months, I've spent nearly an hour…
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The Red House, Paris
Ten years ago, there was a petite house in the Bastille area of Paris that sat tucked away behind the boulevard, surrounded on all four sides by a deserted factory. Today, that little house…
