George Kafka

2 weeks ago | frieze.com | George Kafka

Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits The Airbnbs are booked up, the Aperol has been ordered, the awards have been polished. The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale will soon be upon us, and this intense jamboree of architectural thinking and making comes at a fraught time for the discipline.

Oct 2, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Amadou ZEBA |George Kafka

In Kaya, Burkina Faso, Nomos has overseen the expansion of a medical centre using Nubian vaults and banco techniquesIn Kaya, a city in central Burkina Faso, 100km or so from the capital Ouagadougou, a woman has travelled more than 300km to receive treatment at a new medical facility. She has a problem with her foot, and is examined in the Centre Médico‑Chirurgical (CMC) Kaya’s new banco (mud brick) building, completed earlier this year. She is satisfied with her treatment.

Sep 30, 2024 | architectural-review.com | George Kafka

L’Atelier Senzu’s pedagogical pavilion is the first loadbearing rammed earth building in Paris‘For rammed earth, you always need good boots and a good hat.’ David Dottelonde of L’Atelier Senzu is not providing safety advice for construction workers, but explaining the visible exterior elements of Pavillon Le Vau, a charmingly squat structure nestled in the forecourt of the École Élémentaire Publique Le Vau, in eastern Paris.

Sep 6, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Marianne Thode Krogh |George Kafka |Clayton Aldern

Not long ago, I worked closely with the architect Søren Pihlmann when he was transforming a villa just north of Copenhagen. I was the client, he was the architect, and, because architecture is also my field—I am an art historian, writer, and curator—we decided to frame our collaboration as a project where we both would both contribute to the processes essential for its artistic development.

Aug 26, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Zach Mortice |Shane Reiner-Roth |Michael Webb |George Kafka

There is a lesser-known shadow twin to Daniel Burnham’s epic 1909 Plan of Chicago, which synthesized many elements of contemporary urbanism we have come to expect from cities: comprehensive parks and highway systems, an orderly street grid, preserving the city’s waterfront as a public amenity, and coherent neighborhood-scaled civic centers.