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Architecture - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Architecture

By featuring a wide range of international architects we aim to offer new and diverse perspectives on how creatives are reforming and reshaping the world around us. Find out more by scrolling through our archive of interviews.

Bianca Felicori: Forgotten 20th century gems
Milan Architecture

Bianca Felicori: Forgotten 20th century gems

You might see her running through the streets of Milano’s Corvetto neighborhood on her way to DOPO?—a project space she...
Nostalgia for the future: documenting Bucharest's crumbling modernist heritage
Bucharest Architecture

Nostalgia for the future: documenting Bucharest's crumbling modernist heritage

Nostalgia for the future: documenting Bucharest’s crumbling modernist heritage “Bucharest is a very interesting mix of different architectural styles including...
How new approaches in office spaces are promoting flexibility, creativity, and communication
Architecture

How new approaches in office spaces are promoting flexibility, creativity, and communication

Spread across five floors totaling 14,000 square meters, the Factory Berlin, Görlitzer Park campus not only boasts multiple community spaces,...
Treading socially constructed lines and borders with Paris-based activist magazine The Funambulist
Paris Architecture

Treading socially constructed lines and borders with Paris-based activist magazine The Funambulist

Beginning as a blog in 2010, and then transforming into a podcast in 2013 before becoming a print magazine in...
How architects and designers are revolutionizing the use of light—and making us feel better in the process
Architecture Design

How architects and designers are revolutionizing the use of light—and making us feel better in the process

In 1943, while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “we shape our...
Verena Konrad educates the public about Vorarlberg’s deeply rooted traditions of architecture and craftsmanship
Vorarlberg Architecture

Verena Konrad educates the public about Vorarlberg’s deeply rooted traditions of architecture and craftsmanship

A recent exhibition at the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut (vai) highlights the work of French architects Lacaton & Vassal. Best known...
Effortless design: Mark Randel’s architecture
Berlin Architecture

Effortless design: Mark Randel’s architecture

After 23 years working with David Chipperfield Architects, Mark Randel now focuses on his eponymous studio in Berlin, where he...
Exploring the changing landscape of Finnish design with interior architect Joanna Laajisto
Helsinki Architecture

Exploring the changing landscape of Finnish design with interior architect Joanna Laajisto

Joanna Laajisto is back at work in her storefront studio on Laivasillankatu, close to the main port of Helsinki after...
Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie makes the case for an expanded notion of classical music
Hamburg Architecture

Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie makes the case for an expanded notion of classical music

It’s an uncharacteristically warm afternoon in February and the observation deck at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is teeming with visitors. Free to...
Marc Koehler wants to build cities of the future, one flexible, sustainable community at a time
Architecture

Marc Koehler wants to build cities of the future, one flexible, sustainable community at a time

As an award-winning architect with his own architecture firm, Koehler’s childhood imagined cities have now developed into something far beyond...
Antonin Ziegler: Industrial yet serene residences
Paris Architecture

Antonin Ziegler: Industrial yet serene residences

“What makes Le 107 work is a mix of verticality and openness. It only has a 28 square-meter footprint, but...
Judith Haase fashions a unique architectural language rooted in austerity
Berlin Architecture

Judith Haase fashions a unique architectural language rooted in austerity

Judith Haase is sitting in the laid-back, understated far office in the Gonzalez Haase Atelier Architecture Studio. Over her shoulder,...
Room for inventions with the tech-focused architecture firm Barkow Leibinger
Berlin Architecture

Room for inventions with the tech-focused architecture firm Barkow Leibinger

Nestled between a handsome collection of hipster bicycles stands a colossal iron structure. This unfathomably heavy historical landmark is adorned...
Harnessing the power of positive energy with architect Zhang Xi
Zürich Architecture

Harnessing the power of positive energy with architect Zhang Xi

“Good feng shui, right?” says EXH founding partner and CEO Zhang Xi. She throws open the windows and between the...
Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values
Barcelona Architecture

Born out of the Spanish recession, the architectural studio Mesura carries moderation and respect as its core values

It was during the preceding decades, a time associated with the Spanish housing boom, that Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed and Carlos...
How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now
Cologne Architecture

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now

How do we want to live? Imagining the future of urban neighborhoods with The Sooner Now In terms of ingenious...
Casting the anguish and beauty of two cities with Aesop store design in Leipzig and Munich
Leipzig Munich

Casting the anguish and beauty of two cities with Aesop store design in Leipzig and Munich

Barely no other place manifests the history of an entire country like Nikolaistraße, a street that connects Leipzig’s main station...
Urban utopias born of human needs and speculative vision, The Sooner Now takes a closer look
Berlin Architecture

Urban utopias born of human needs and speculative vision, The Sooner Now takes a closer look

As a result, the act of “making is an empowering process,” explains Joe Halligan of the London-based art collective Assemble....
Tblisi: Urban informality in Georgia’s capital
Tbilisi Architecture

Tblisi: Urban informality in Georgia’s capital

Under communist rule, every single family was meant to be accomodated in urban units. In Tbilisi, many families found homes...
Victoria Okoye: Cities designed for residents
Sheffield Architecture

Victoria Okoye: Cities designed for residents

Over a cup of green tea at The Depot Bakery in Sheffield, the South Yorkshire city where she has been...
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