Strelka Mag

07.09, Architecture

A guide to ‘Future Architect’ conference at Strelka

Featuring top architecture schools, firms, and design studios from the UK, US, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, and Russia, the Future Architect conference will take place at Strelka Institute on September 10-12. Learn about some of the renowned speakers coming to Moscow.

07.09, Architecture / News

What will a standard Russian apartment look like in the future?

The jury of the competition, which is being operated by Strelka KB, has shortlisted the top 20 layout designs for standard housing in Russia.

30.08, Education

‘We Have Always Been Posthuman’: What will shape The New Normal’s final year

Strelka Institute has begun admissions for the last year of The New Normal speculative design think-tank. Strelka Mag outlines the upcoming year’s main themes.

27.08, Education

Join Strelka's The New Normal postgraduate program 2018/19

The admission cycle for the third and final year of the The New Normal program is launching on August 27.

24.08, Future

New Babylon: Radical hospitality in a world beyond labor

An excerpt from Mark Wigley’s essay about an architectural paradigm of free space and time afforded by automation.

17.08, Cities

‘Tashkent Loves You’: Strelka KB starts ambitious project to revitalize Uzbek capital

Strelka KB is going international, beginning to work with cities in former Soviet countries. Tashkent is the first such city to become a partner in an extensive cooperation program.

15.08, Future

Geocinema: Filming at planetary scale

What if billions of cell phones, CCTV cameras, and satellites were used as one camera?

10.08, Art & Science

Gosha Rubchinskiy & Vladimir Paperny join urbanists’ intervention into Russia’s top modern art gallery

The experimental exhibition “Tretyakov: An Other Edition” at Moscow’s New Tretyakov Gallery offers an alternative perspective on one of Russia’s most important museums and its 20th century art collection.

06.08, Art & Science

Politics & aesthetics of Putin’s Russia as seen through Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Zaryadye Park

“Portal Zaryadye” – an exhibition just opened at Moscow’s Schusev Museum of Architecture – cracks open Moscow’s high-profile park and offers an insight into modern Russia and where it is headed.

01.08, Art & Science

Alexander Brodsky explores iconic Soviet concrete fence in latest oeuvre

“Villa PO-2,” the funeral of the fly, and other highlights of Archstoyanie – Russia’s largest land art and architecture festival.

24.07, People

Rem Koolhaas: ‘Beauty can give you a false sense of existential security’

The founder of OMA sits down with the veteran Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner for an extensive interview about the legacy of Soviet modernism, the city of the future, and post-human architecture.

19.07, Cities

How to turn an abandoned construction pit into a city’s top public space

Khokhlovskaya Square – a sleek amphitheater in central Moscow, which replaced a stalled construction site and became a new type of public space in the city and a unique case of preservation – has won the Moscow Urban Forum award for best urban design.

11.07, Future

AI taking control of food chain

As automation is gradually transforming agriculture, what would happen if artificial intelligence learned to farm and cook?

04.07, Art & Science

Dutch artist’s intervention ‘softens’ imposing Soviet landmark

Conceptual artist Marinus Boezem revisits the monumental architecture of Moscow’s Gorky Park through site-specific artworks and installations.

02.07, Art & Science

‘An ideal never fully achieved’: Reflecting on modernism through a non-existent city

A Polish photographer reapplies the ideals of modernism by creating his own “imaginary architecture.”

27.06, People

In search of a new temporality: How our present is governed from the future

Berlin-based philosopher Armen Avanessian travels the world, seeking to create platforms for a different future and to abolish the distinction between theory and practice. Moscow is his latest stop.

26.06, Cities

Strelka KB receives special mention in LILA landscape award

Competing with 119 offices from around the world, Russia’s leading urban consultancy firm has been awarded special mention in the Office category of LILA 2018.

21.06, Cities

Radical grassroots intervention transforms Stalin-era outdoor theater site

Collectively designed, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded by local community, Stage creates a unique public space in Dnipro, Ukraine.

21.06, Art & Science

Manifesta 12: Looking at the world through Palermo's eyes

The 12th edition of Manifesta has kicked off in Palermo, considering the city as a complex political body and an incubator of different global conditions.

20.06, Cities

Strelka KB shortlisted for LILA landscape award

Strelka KB has been announced as one of five finalists for the Landezine International Landscape Award in the ‘Office Profile’ category.