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F5: Melanie Courbet Shares the Spark Behind Her Gallery + More

Design Milk

Influenced by her French and Tunisian parents, along with her own travels and collaborations, Melanie Courbet founded Les Ateliers Courbet in 2013. The organization includes two schools, over 500 students, adult literacy, a health program, and long-standing micro-loan programs for women.

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Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism, the Exhibition

Design Milk

Thallus, Installation, 2017 Sculpture developed by ZHA CODE with ZHD in collaboration with AiBuild, Odico Formwork Robotics, Armadillo Engineering © Photo Courtesy of Hong Kong Design Institute. Morpheus Hotel & Resort at City of Dreams, Cotai, Macau, 2013-2018 © Photo Courtesy of Hong Kong Design Institute.

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Highly regarded for her versatility and hands-on approach, Bargmann received her BFA in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University before earning her Masters in landscape architecture at Harvard. Her firm, Tawaw Architecture Collective h as offices in both Phoenix and Calgary.

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“Could Policy-Making be Considered Architecture?” A Q&A with Frida Escobedo

Azure Magazine

Her other most distinctive works include the Echo Pavilion at the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City (2010); the restoration of La Tallera, a cultural centre in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2012); and the Civic Stage for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013). Being a designer, what I try to do is not simply accept a program handed to me.

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Magical Imperfection: A New Documentary Explores the Life of Raymond Moriyama

Azure Magazine

“While I was living in the internment camp, my thoughts were on fighting for equality, inclusion and democracy,” he told Azure in 2013. Emphasizing tactility and interactive learning, the Toronto institution’s design and program reimagined what a museum can be. But the trauma was formative. Then came architecture.

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Where did this interaction come from??—?a brief history of interaction design

UX Collective

Max Ernst put an ax beside his sculpture to be used by the visitors “in case they did not like the object”. Happening In the early 1960s , Nicolas Schoffer created the series of “CYSP” (Cybernetic-Spatiodynamic) sculptures capable of responding to changes in sound, light intensity, color, and movement, of the audience.

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In ‘The Order of Things,’ Wim Delvoye’s Playful Installations Reimagine a Museum’s Historical Collection

Colossal

All images © Wim Delvoy, courtesy of Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, shared with permission In 1802, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova produced a marble sculpture known as “ Venus Italica ,” notably commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte and intended to replace another Venus statue at the Louvre in Paris. x 52 x 26 centimeters.

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