15/12/2020 architecture & interior
With a career that spanned over 78 years, 600 projects, and several continents, Oscar Niemeyer is the postmodernist voice of Brazil and worked until the age of 104. Look back at his legacy and how he used politics as a way to shape his design language.
Read more 10/12/2020 architecture & interior design & fashion
Functionalism just wasn't enough for a young troop of Milano designers and architects who were gathered in the apartment of Ettore Sottsass in 1980. These revolutionary mavens wanted to command attention and communicate a message, they wanted to challenge the status quo and show that design could be emotional, humorous, and sensual.
Read more 03/12/2020 architecture & interior
Ahead of time both in design and philosophy, Lina Bo Bardi was a pioneer who championed a new era of the female architecture and creating spaces for the public. She was the architect that used Modernism to connect people with spaces, her vision was to create a world centered around community and culture.
Read more 03/12/2020 architecture & interior
Ricardo Bofill represents the last dreamers of modernity, he encapsulates for all the virtues, the fulfilled dreams, and grand ambitions that the following generation has not been able to have. Apartamento magazine’s creative director Nacho Alegre reflects on the legacy of a fellow Catalonian.
Read more 17/11/2020 architecture & interior design & fashion
A select few are inscribed in history as pioneers of modern Italian design and architecture, Gio Ponti was undoubtedly one of them. A designer in the truest definition, today he is known as the ‘Father of Italian Modernist’ design.
Read more 01/11/2020 architecture & interior
Japan has long been wedded to the natural elements of wood in both design and architecture. Wood as materiality played a salient role in the cultural and ritual identities of the country, and again is becoming the component of choice. Discover three archetype from this growing movement.
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