Veranda, Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milano. Image courtesy of Alessandra Cianni Zambotto Every summer, Milan Arch Week casts light on the architectural treasures of the Italian capital of design, offering tours and visits of house-museums. One of the most precious examples of Milanese twentieth-century architecture and lifestyle is the Villa Necchi Campiglio, tucked away on the central via Mozart. Designed by Piero Portaluppi in the 1930s and revamped by Tomaso Buzzi in the 1950

llustration: Anna Seibæk Torp-Pedersen Sonnet, Senior Curator responsible for twentieth-century and contemporary fashion at the V&A, met us with a welcoming smile in the John Madejski Garden, just before the public opening of the Exhibition Road Quarter at the V&A. An enterprising and positive-thinking alumna (MA 1998) who is soon to become the new Chair of the Courtauld Association, Sonnet is full of good advice, and is hoping to further support the Courtauld’s increasingly

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Panos Tzortzopoulos and Tom Morgan are recent graduates of Goldsmiths’ BA Design programme. Their final project — which featured in the Goldsmiths degree show - ‘Hyphen’ (16 June - 19 June 2017) — explores the notion of community within the dichotomous contexts of the Isle of Dogs and the Isle of Grain. The project interrogates the relationship between established communities and the ambitions of developers and suggests that collaborative, human-scale approaches to urban plan

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Chandigarh (after ‘Chandi Mandir’, a Hindu temple located nearby) is the capital of two states, Punjab and Haryana. Jawaharlal Nehru envisaged a new city which architecturally and politically departed from the past – a break from classical and colonial styles. Le Corbusier steered the design of the city, accompanied by European architects working under the same modernist rubric, including Pierre Jeanneret, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Efforts to train Indian students according

A few weeks before its closing date in June I visited ‘Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945’ at the Barbican. The exhibition eloquently told the story of post-war architecture in Japan, focussing on the interface between houses and their inhabitants. Whilst retaining more typical components of architectural culture, such as models and photographs, the exhibition’s curators also took the audacious step of recreating a full scale building at its centre - the Moriyam

Arctic Thirst, 2014, gouache on paper, 10.25” x 14.5”, from the Watershed Series Currently working in Port Townsend, Washington, the artist Karen Hackenberg talks to us about her recent trip to London, environmental concerns in the age of Trump, and her latest work. Between painting and traveling, it is possible to find Hackenberg combing the beaches of Discovery Bay. Not looking for shells or natural forms, she is most interested in the rubbish, the objects we purposefully i