Ian Volner

New York

Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Design writer for The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Harper’s inter alia. New book "Jorge Pardo: Public Projects” out now from @PetzelGallery

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Articles

CookFox Transforms a 19th Century Manhattan Storehouse into a Modern Workplace

3 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Ian Volner

ProjectsBuildings by TypeAdaptive Reuse and RenovationInfrastructure & Industrial ProjectsWood ProjectsWorkplace Design Architects & Firms In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible.
In Venice, an Architecture Biennale with a Dystopian Flair

4 weeks ago | architecturalrecord.com | Ian Volner

Architecture NewsArchitecture Festivals I have seen the future. And it’s a headache. Carlo Ratti’s international exhibition at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale is intended to be a searching, no-bad-ideas rap session on the human prospect—the possibilities, pitfalls, and space-faring AI-assisted freak-outs confronting global civilization in the 21st century.
A mad weeklong sprint around Salone del Mobile and satellite Design Week fairs

4 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Ian Volner |Kristine Klein

As moviemaking is to Los Angeles, so design is to Milan. Homewares and interior fittings are the lifeblood, mythic history, cocktail chatter, and standard billboard fare of Italy’s commercial capital, and never more so than during Salone del Mobile, the mega-function that rolls into town every April.
Architecture and Trump

1 month ago | artforum.com | Ian Volner

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How One Architect Reimagined a Centuries-Old College Campus

1 month ago | thegrandtourist.net | Ian Volner

This article is from our first-ever print issue, available for order online now. David Kohn is used to going his own way.
The Frick reopens after a yearslong renovation by Selldorf Architects

2 months ago | archpaper.com | Ian Volner |Kristine Klein

Rockefeller had more of it. Mellon did more with it. Barnes had more interesting ideas about it. But in the annals of great early 20th-century art collectors, no other plutocratic culture vulture quite measures up to Henry Clay Frick—not, at least, when it came to an eye for the good stuff.
RECORD Talks with Carlo Ratti, Curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Ian Volner |Carlo Ratti

Architecture NewsInterviews Curating the Venice Architecture Biennale is never an easy job. At the best of times, the role entails a hefty logistical lift, marshaling some 750 participants from around the world and then bringing them together on a tiny, damp, expensive island. But in the present global situation, with cultural and economic conflict seemingly at every hand, it takes a special kind of daring to stage-manage architecture’s biggest international show.
Travis Jeppesen around Venice Gallery Weekend 2025

2 months ago | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist |Davida Fernandez-Barkan |Ian Volner

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The English Design Company Established & Sons Embraces a Reset

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Ian Volner

One pandemic, a number of Brexit-related disruptions and a few more staff switches later (Mr. Wrong left again two years ago, this time for the office-design specialists Orangebox), and today Established & Sons is ready to show that it has learned the fundamentals.
Building Culture by Julian Rose

2 months ago | artforum.com | Ian Volner

On Julian Rose’s Building CultureBuilding Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space, by Julian Rose. Princeton Architectural Press, 2024. 368 pages.