Urban Mutation

Centre Pompidou-Metz’s Japanese season features an exhibition that pays homage to key architects and urban developments in Japan from 1945 to today.

Nomadic Darkness

Joel Meyerowitz draws inspiration from the hours of dusk; capturing the stark moments of darkness in neighbourhoods from the 1970s and 1980s.

Community Landmark

A new iconic landmark is revealed ahead of next month’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. The latest addition to the city is the El Centro facility; a Northeastern Illinois University satellite venue.

Technological Innovations

SITE Santa Fe opens the doors of its new building this October with Future Shock, a large-scale exhibition that articulates the profound impact of the…

Progressive Constructions

The 2017 City of Culture has partnered with RIBA to commission Pezo von Ellrichshausen and Felice Varini to design a structure for the centre of Hull.

Political Structures

Monica Bonvicini develops an installation for Berlinische Galerie’s large exhibition hall comprised of gender-specific and power-conscious allusions.

Social Space

Toby Paterson returns to Edinburgh to create a new work inspired by Patrick Geddes’ surveys of cities as a means to study human activity and society.

Urban Manoeuvres

New York hosts the seventh edition of the Performa Biennial this November. This year’s collaboration, brings together creatives that consider urban life.

Global Imaginations

The Design Museum, London, has announced the shortlist for the 10th anniversary celebrations of the world’s best designs.

Spatial Environments

Ambienti/Environments centres on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm of installation art, along with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali.

Sublime Landscapes

Adam Jeppesen searches for the silence and spirituality in desolate landscapes and the physical elements in his latest exhibition, Out of Camp.

Sequential Urbanity

Swedish photographer Mårten Lange has released a The Mechanism, a despondent sequence that forms a sci-fi story about contemporary life.

Design Materials

Plywood: Material of the Modern World at the V&A, London, explores how a frequently overlooked material, plywood, has revolutionised design and creative practices over the past 150 years.

Critical Re-examination

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific architects of the 20th century, designing over 1000 buildings. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, stages a 150th anniversary celebration of his birth.

Creative Synergy

For the 2017 London Design Festival, the hub is at the V&A, further deepening the strong link between a world-leading collection of art and innovation.

Graphic Consideration

Emmanuelle Moureaux’s latest project, Creche Ropponmatsu Kindergarten, Fukuoka, further develops her explorations of colour.

Hyper-real Perspectives

Kate Ballis’s Infra Realism sits in the mysterious realm between reality and the surreal. Residing in a lucid dreamscape, it is familiar yet subversive.

Charting Photo-Modernism

E.O. Hoppé’s provides meditations on shifting ideals, revelling in the structural complexity and cultural acceleration that was unravelling in Germany.

Symbiotic Landscapes

Maik Lipp takes a clean, graphic approach to modern metropolis. Mixed Minimal isolates the beauty of lone architectural elements.

Aesthetica Issue 78

In this era of accelerating post-truth and digital manipulation, where fact converges with fiction, we must ask ourselves – what is going on?