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Live interview with Eric Höweler as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 21, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Architect Eric Höweler will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 2:00pm UK time. The Boston-based architect will discuss his work with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Höweler is the co-founder of architecture practice Höweler + Yoon, which he

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Live interview with Standard Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 14, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Standard Architecture will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 5:00 pm UK time. The founders of the Los Angeles-based architecture and interior design firm, Silvia Kuhle and Jeffrey Allsbrook, will discuss their work with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

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Live interview with Ben van Berkel as part of Virtual Design Festival

May 13, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it here live from 3:30pm UK time. The Dutch architect will discuss the work of UNStudio with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Van Berkel founded the studio together with Caroline

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Studio Natalie researching local materials for interiors projects after being stranded on coral island

May 4, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In the most exotic VDF video message we received, interior designer Natalie Papageorgiadis explains how she found herself stranded in the Maldives as the world went into lockdown due to coronavirus. Papageorgiadis is the founder of London-based interior design studio Studio Natalie and appears in the video with its managing director Stuart Trevor on an

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Live interview with architect Dong-Ping Wong as part of Virtual Design Festival

April 30, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0
Live interview with architect Dong-Ping Wong as part of Virtual Design Festival

Architect Dong-Ping Wong is speaking to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Wong, who is the founder of New York-based studio Food New York, is discussing his work with Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. His firm frequently works with fashion designer Virgil Abloh, having designed

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“Our priority is to play our part in society at large” says Ben van Berkel

April 29, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel says the architecture firm is researching “how design can support the sectors that are in need” after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, in a video message for Virtual Design Festival. “Our priority is, of course, to safeguard our employees, our business and our running projects, but also to play

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Tokyo has cells for living, working, eating, entertainment and sex says Martin van der Linden

April 23, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, video blogger Martin van der Linden uses some of his favourite architecture books to explain the order behind Tokyo’s apparently chaotic urban landscape. “When first-time visitors come to Tokyo, they are often overwhelmed by its chaotic urbanity,” he says. “Buildings jumbled together with no sense of coordination

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Everyone in the creative industries is “wondering what our role is” says Beatrice Galilee

April 22, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Beatrice Galilee has curated an online design symposium for Virtual Design Festival, which will be broadcast from 1:00pm UK time later today. In this video message, she questions the role of the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic. Galilee is a co-founder and curator of The World Around, an architecture and design conference, which had

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Shinto temple gates are “symbolic entrances into a new world” says Martin van der Linden

April 21, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. The Shinto religion is practised throughout Japan in temples that feature several gated entrances called torii. “Gates can be found throughout the world, not just in Japan,” van der

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“I am irrational and the work stops me going mad” says John Pawson in Dezeen’s latest podcast

April 21, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

The latest episode of Dezeen’s Face to Face podcast features architectural designer John Pawson, who recounts his brief spell as a Buddhist monk, how Calvin Klein changed his life and explains how minimalism helps calm his “untidy mind”. Listen to the episode below or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts to catch the whole series. In the Face

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