Jun Aoki

Part good neighbour and part recluse, N is a house with a split personality. The latest from Tokyo architect Jun Aoki, this two-story block adorned with a pitched roof, brick chimney and mullioned windows greets the street amiably. But the heart of the house is a cavernous, underground box completely sequestered from view. While the iconographic upstairs contains just bedrooms, the buried inner sanctum downstairs holds the combined kitchen, dining and living room.

KEMISTRY,Pure Yet Complex

 if you are in or around East London in the next week and a bit we suggest that you pop into Kemistry gallery for their current exhibition ‘Pure Yet Complex’ by Sanderson Bob.

Kemistry is small independent gallery dedicated to exhibiting the work of outstanding designers both past and present, located in Shoreditch, London. 

Forms of Inquiry Project

London based designer Zak Kyes, Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design brings together new works by a range of international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation. The exhibition features projects that have originated as self-propelled inquiry, either professional or personal, and have been developed into a myriad of media and forms including typography, writing/curatorial projects, installations, interactive works, publications and speculative proposals, that draw a relationship between architectural and graphic design.

The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines

The recent resurgence of interest in the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s has largely neglected the role of the many experimental publications that were the engine of that intensely creative period. Assembled together for the first time, these remarkable documents offer a unique view of a key period of architectural innovation and challenge today’s architects to provoke a similar intensity. This exhibition tracks the critical function of the little magazine in architecture during these years.

CCA