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VDF and MPavilion present video talks with Rem Koolhaas, Carme Pinós, Glenn Murcutt and more

June 25, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

For the second part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with Melbourne’s MPavilion, we present interviews with architects Bijoy Jain, Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten, Carmé Pinos, Sean Godsell and Glenn Murcutt. Tune in from 12:00pm UK time. MPavilion has teamed up with Virtual Design Festival today to celebrate the launch of its book MPavilion: Encounters with Design

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1zu33 creates bespoke spaces that “connect brands with people”

June 24, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Hansgrohe trade fair design by 1zu33

Munich-based architecture studio 1zu33 has created numerous spaces for brands including a snowy forest within a pop-up restaurant and a tranquil interior for a Aesop. The studio was founded in 2009 by Hendrik Müller and Georg Thiersch, who both studied architecture at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart, partly under David Chipperfield. Working exclusively in the field of

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“We want to tackle the uncomfortable subjects,” says Afterparti in London Festival of Architecture film at VDF

June 24, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Members of architecture collective Afterparti

Siufan Adey and Thomas Aquilina of Afterparti present the architecture collective’s manifesto in the second part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with the London Festival of Architecture. Afterparti, which was born out of the New Architecture Writers (NAW) programme for emerging BAME writers, creates zines –non-commercial magazines – and events that promote underrepresented voices in

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Design Museum, Kvadrat, Piet Hein Eek and Rem Koolhaas feature at VDF this week

June 22, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Virtual Design Festival schedule week eleven

Week 11 of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Danish textile company Kvadrat and a series of conversations with the architects behind Melbourne’s annual MPavilion designs. Tuesday sees a takeover from the Design Museum, which will unveil work by its designers in residence. Among them are architect Stiliyana Minkovska, who designed a series of undulating

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Ibiye Camp discusses how post-lockdown architecture could be designed digitally in film for VDF

June 18, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Ibiye Camp for LFA and VDF

The London Festival of Architecture has teamed up with Virtual Design Festival to show a selection of movies from its series Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation, starting with a short film from artist and architect Ibiye Camp. Camp’s work encompasses everything from clothing to upcycled material, technological installations and film. “The material and medium

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Stellar Works, Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom, Winy Maas and What Design Can Do feature at VDF this week

June 15, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Virtual Design Festival schedule week ten

Week ten of Virtual Design Festival features talks with architects and designers including Mariam Kamara, Lee Broom and Winy Maas, as well as collaborations with brands such as Stellar Works, Vitra and Rado, and organisations Mindcraft, London Festival of Architecture and What Design Can Do. The tenth week of VDF starts today with an interview

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Mork-Ulnes constructs raised Skigard Hytte cabin using detached log cladding

June 14, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Mork-Ulnes Architects' Skigard Hytte in Kvitfjell, Norway

Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed Skigard Hytte, a modern mountain cabin raised on pillars and made entirely from wood. The cabin in Kvitfjell, Norway is the first project that architects Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes, who work together as Mork-Ulnes Architects, have made from the ground-up for their family. Skigard Hytte consists of a regular grid of

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H&P Architects tops Vietnam house with plantable roof to create “cube of earth”

June 9, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
AgriNesture by H&P Architects in Mao Khe Town, Vietnam

H&P Architects has designed the AgriNesture house in Vietnam to have a large space for agriculture so that its owners can grow their own food. The house in the town of Mao Khe in QuangNinh Province was designed by H&P Architects to create a growing space as millions of hectares of agricultural land have been lost in the

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Arthur Mamou-Mani shares unseen drone footage of Burning Man project Galaxia at VDF

June 8, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Arthur Mamou-Mani's Galaxia temple for Burning Man 2018

As part of today’s VDF collaboration with Arthur Mamou-Mani, the French architect speaks about his Galaxia temple at the 2018 Burning Man festival and shares previously unseen aerial footage of it. Mamou-Mani has shared the drone footage of his Galaxia project ahead of a virtual-reality tour of his Burning Man projects, which will take place

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Ini Archibong, Fornasetti, Teresa van Dongen and a virtual tour feature at VDF this week

June 8, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
The schedule for week nine of the Virtual Design Festival

Week nine of Virtual Design Festival opens with a virtual-reality tour with architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, who will show us around VR versions of his Catharsis and Galaxia buildings created for the Burning Man festival. The tour, taking place today, will follow a live interview between Mamou-Mani and Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Also on

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