Events

The post-World War II suburbanization of America was driven by the housing needs of nuclear families, the nation’s leading demographic. In 1950, these families represented 43% of our households; in…

Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA, at the Noguchi Museum, presents a selection of 26 lamps created by the leading French design studio in collaboration with five designers. Over the…

Each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, a city of more than 75,000 people rises out of the dust for a single week. During that time, enormous experimental art installations…

During the early 2000s, Oslo became one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. New apartment buildings began rising ever faster and higher, and in ever denser configurations. With its…

Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966-1976 addresses the idea of utopia as a tool for social critique. Organized by Palazzo Strozzi and curated by Pino Brugellis, Gianni Pettena, and Alberto Salvadori, the exhibition…

Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space is a new commission by Sam Jacob Studio which leads the visitor through deceptive murals, cunning architectural structures and a newly…

Santiago Ramón y Cajal made transformative discoveries of the anatomy of the brain and nervous system, work that led to his receiving a Nobel Prize in 1906. This founder of…

Azzedine Alaïa, a master of cut, tailoring, fit, innovative form and materials, is the focus of this Design Museum exhibition. The museum worked closely with Azzedine Alaïa in planning the…

In 1995 a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Japan with its epicentre at the major port city of Kobe. More than 6,000 people were killed and 200,000 made…

NatureStructure aims to present a new model for the relationship design and the built environment can have with nature. As the impact of floods and droughts increase and pollinator populations and natural habitats decrease, efforts…