• Back to School in Brazil: aberrant architecture’s Venice Takeaway

    15 March 2013

    Next up from the public programme of Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture at the RIBA: aberrant architecture‘s findings from their research in Brazil, which uncovered Oscar Niemeyer’s radical, experimental school-building programme during the 1980s in Rio de Janeiro. Led by Niemeyer, the scheme built over 500 prefab primary schools, known as CIEPs (Integrated Centres of Public Education).

  • Fischli & Weiss: Rocking the Serpentine

    10 March 2013

    Probably the most basic of existential statements would be to pick up an object – a rock, let’s say – and deliberately place it atop another. Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ latest work exaggerates the profundity of doing so with two huge boulders in central London.

  • INSTITUTIONALISED with Dan Hill, Jeremy Till & Wouter Vanstiphout

    5 March 2013

    On 12 March 2013, Blueprint has invited Dan Hill (Fabrica, City of Sound), Wouter Vanstiphout (Crimson Architectural Historians, TU Delft) and Jeremy Till (Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London) to have a public conversation on the subject of the modern architectural institution.

  • Aernout Mik: Communitas at the Stedelijk Museum

    5 March 2013

    The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam will host Dutch artist Aernout Mik’s solo exhibition Communitas this spring.

  • Review: Architecture & Beauty at the V&A

    3 March 2013

    This lecture was the third in the Architecture&.. series: a joint venture between the Royal College of Art, V&A and Architectural Review.

  • Rules (and regulations) Brittania at RIBA with Venice Takeaway

    1 March 2013

    The public programme complementing the Venice Takeaway exhibition, currently on display at the RIBA in London, is really stupendous.

  • What Design Can Do 2013: Urban-Think Tank, Dunne & Raby, Rahul Mehrotra..

    1 March 2013

    What Design Can Do (WDCD) is an annual two-day long conference in Amsterdam which, in the organisers’ own words ‘celebrates the power of design and its problem-solving abilities.’

  • Blueprint at Kinoteka Polish Film Festival with Tomasz Opasinski

    1 March 2013

    Blueprint has teamed up with Polish film festival Kinoteka, to kick it off with a talk by prolific digital film-poster designer and artist Tomasz Opasinski on 6 March 2013.

  • Eley Kishimoto at Centre Point

    28 February 2013

    Centre Point, the iconic 118m-high London skyscraper designed by Richard Seifert and George Marsh and finished in 1966, is the inspiration for a new fashion range from Eley Kishimoto.

  • Kinetica Art Fair 2013

    28 February 2013

    One, Two, Three is a digital/craft media hybrid installation by Trope Scope, one of a myriad of kinetic, cybernetic, and light-based artworks from 40 exhibitors shown at this year's Kinetica Art Fair, at Ambika P3, Marylebone Road, London, until 3rd March 2013. (Watch out for a review in our May issue).