Dezeenwire: Citizen Architect, a 60-minute documentary about late architect Samuel Mockbee of pioneering American undergraduate programme Rural Studio, premieres at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 March. www.citizenarchitectfilm.com
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March 15th, 2010
March 15th, 2010
Dezeenwire: Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore reports on Make It Right, actor Brad Pitt’s project to rebuilt a district of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina – The Observer
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March 14th, 2010
Dezeenwire: in an interview with the Sunday Times, engineer and inventor James Dyson reveals he is to stand down as chairman of Dyson and talks about the Ingenious Britain report commissioned by the Conservative Party, in which Dyson sets out ways to make Britain a leading high-tech exporter – Sunday Times
Related stories: Air Multiplier fan by Dyson; The Wind by Issey Miyake with James Dyson.
March 10th, 2010
Dezeenwire: Justin McGuirk, editor of icon magazine, launches his new blog for The Guardian with an attack on designer Ron Arad, whose Ron Arad: Restless exhibition opened at the Barbican recently – The Guardian
Related stories: see our special Ron Arad issue of Dezeenwire.
March 10th, 2010
Dezeenwire: Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, and other key Apple staff explain the design of the iPad in a video on Apple’s website.
Related story: iPad by Apple
March 9th, 2010
Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a slideshow of the last collection by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last month aged 40. The collection was presented posthumously by his studio at Paris fashion week – The Guardian.
Related story: Alexander McQueen 1969-2010
March 9th, 2010
Dezeenwire: Bruce J Graham, the architect who designed America’s tallest building, Sears Tower in Chicago, has died at the age of 84 – Press Association
March 5th, 2010
Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have announced the category winners for the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards. See press release below. More »
March 3rd, 2010
Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have selected seven studios for the shortlist to design their new home in a 1960’s RMJM-designed building in west London, including David Chipperfield, Caruso St John and John Pawson - Architects Journal
March 2nd, 2010
Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey interviews architect I. M. Pei, who was recently awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture - Guardian.
See also: our Dezeenwire story announcing the award.
March 1st, 2010
Dezeenwire: architect Ole Scheeren is to leave Office for Metropolitan Architecture and establish his own studio - see press release below:
February 23rd, 2010
Dezeenwire: architect Alessandro Mendini returns as editor-in-chief of Domus magazine, 30 years after he first edited the Italian architecture and design title. He is to edit eleven issues, commencing with April 2010. See press release below. More »
February 22nd, 2010
Dezeenwire: former Evening Standard architecture writer Rowan Moore has replaced Stephen Bayley as The Observer’s architecture critic, starting off with a review of SANAA’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne – The Observer. See Dezeen’s story about the building here.
February 22nd, 2010
Dezeenwire: Design Academy Eindhoven is collaborating with auction house Sotheby’s to present its first exhibition of graduate work in the UK. More »
February 19th, 2010
Dezeenwire: Dutch designer Jurgen Bey has been appointed as director of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He is due to take up the post from 1 September 2010 - Sandberg Institute
