Lead — Architecture · Long read
Lina Bo Bardi's glass house has spent seventy years being misread. A new generation of practices, working at very different scales, are quietly pulling it back from the postcard and into a working idea about how a building can hold weather, plant life, and contradiction at the same time.
Six practices we keep coming back to
A husband-and-wife team converting industrial buildings without erasing them. Their tile work is the part you remember; the part to study is the way they leave the floors alone.
Profile by Iris Holm · 11 minLandscape practice with a deceptively small portfolio. Their projects rarely look new because they are not, in any straightforward sense, designed — they are repaired.
Visit by Tomás Reyes · 8 minType and signage for civic buildings. The new wayfinding for the Anahuacalli annex is the cleanest piece of public lettering we have seen in a year.
Visit by Owen Mehta · 6 minDispatches and short reviews
Featured dispatch · Venice
It is small, it is restrained, and it is doing something none of the bigger pavilions are managing this year — it is admitting what it does not know. Three days at the Biennale, with detours.
By Petra Lindh · 14 min · Photographs by Inés Karam
Short — under five minutes each
"The trade gothic revival is mostly being done by people who do not remember why we left."
From the Type desk, May 2A thread on what is missing from the Korean pavilion catalogue, with three pictures from the side gallery.
From Venice, May 1"You can tell whether an architect respects rain by what they do with the threshold."
From the Architecture desk, Apr 30A small correction to last week's piece on Niwa Office, with a photograph that explains the correction.
From Kyoto, Apr 29Five desks · one front page