Bjarke Ingels has spoken of his desire to replace Modernism's "boring box" legacy with new kinds of localised architecture at a lecture at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ transcript). More about BIG wants to create new styles of vernacular architecture, says Bjarke Ingels
News: British curator Beatrice Galilee has been appointed to a newly created role as curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. More about Beatrice Galilee appointed architecture and design curator for The Met
Lisbon Architecture Triennale: following budget cuts, boycotts and lukewarm reviews, Lisbon Architecture Triennale curator Beatrice Galilee defends the event that opened in the Portuguese capital last week and explains why she believes architecture exhibitions don't always need to be about buildings (+ interview). More about "Exhibitions are places to be occupied, not just things to be observed" - Beatrice Galilee
Milan 2013: Congolese music performed with mobile phones, carpentry workshops making fantasy coffins and a photo-documentary inspired by the failed Zambian space programme are all part of an exhibition of African design and culture in a Milanese department store next week (+ slideshow). More about Afrofuture at La Rinascente
Curator and writer Beatrice Galilee proposes that architecture and design exhibitions need to be about more than just "sticking furniture on plinths" in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. "It's just not good enough anymore," she says. More about "There's a real sense of urgency for a more critical design" - Beatrice Galilee at Dezeen Live
News: architects, curators and students can now apply to participate in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which takes place from 12 September to 15 December 2013. More about Call for entries to Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Dezeen Wire: details have been announced for the third edition of architecture festival the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which will take place from 12 September to 15 December 2013 in the Portuguese capital under the title "Close, Closer". More about Details announced for Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked Lab curated by Beatrice Galilee. More about Hacked Lab at La Rinascente
Dezeen Wire: British curator and writer Beatrice Galilee has been named as the chief curator for the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which will take place between October 2013 and January 2014. More about Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013 appoints new chief curator