Architecture

Culture clash: how Venice battled to keep the Modernists out

The Biennale is celebrated for a collision of the contemporary and the historical, but newer architecture remains hidden behind the city’s venerable walls

Incense: the secret ingredient in G.F. Bodley's architecture

Kenneth Powell locates G.F. Bodley in the Aesthetic Movement

Architects vs Prince Charles: if the column goes, we go

Why Robert Venturi threatened to walk out after royal objection to false column on Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery

America is easier to see, but the whole picture remains elusive: Alexander Alberro on the Whitney’s opening exhibition

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

New Whitney and Broad Museum on trend with vast column-free space

Super-sized, flexible spaces are the latest must-have, but curators and budgets can suffer

Russian dealer to help Abramovic get Montenegro art centre off the ground

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>

Don’t be scared of what will be: the Medieval way of art and death

The union of devotional imagery and religious observance was a comfort

MoMA builds a new audience for Latin American architecture

Sixty years after a landmark architectural survey, the New York museum picks up where it left off

V&A Cast Court restored to Victorian splendour

£2m, two year refurbishment to open next month

Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays

Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built

Venice Architecture Biennale: Architecture as a living organism

Rem Koolhaas’s Biennale reflects his discipline not just as a technical process but as the embodiment of human experience across the ages.

New monument to mark Malevich’s grave

A competition to be held for a monument to mark lost resting place of the Russian avant-garde

Interview: architect Jacques Herzog on Art Basel’s new hall

The co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron architects on remodelling Messe Basel and the end of Modernity

Design Miami/Basel to relocate to more spacious hall in exhibition complex

Change was inevitable if the fair was to stay in Basel, as the limitations of the original site would have restricted its growth

Obituariesarchive

Obituary: Gae Aulenti

One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay

Interview with Oscar Tuazon: Sculptures you are supposed to play with

Artist Oscar Tuazon on his Public Art Fund project for Brooklyn Bridge Park

Are too many museums relying on too few architects?

Famous name or talented newcomer—how art museum architects are chosen today

Arles cultural centre falls foul of planning rules

French heritage authority wants Gehry-designed towers moved to reduce their impact on the city’s archaeology.

Berlin and Warsaw team up to preserve socialist heritage

Though reconstruction efforts after the devastation of war differed wildly between the two cities, the dialogue will be vital to conservation efforts

Piranesiarchive

Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions

Newsarchive

Restored 18th century parlour from Connecticut open for public viewing at Yale University Art Gallery

Yale prepares for the 2012 installation of its decorative arts galleries by reconstructing a period room

Shenzhenarchive

Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: Two cities grin and bear it for one uneasy biennale

Interesting work, relaxed censorship and sheer scale belie tensions in joint Hong Kong-Shenzhen project

Booksarchive

Book review: The trade in architectural salvages

John Harris investigates the mainly US market for parts of European buildings

Tate expansion by Herzog & de Meuron secures $100m from British state

Swiss duo stake claim to be the art world’s favourite architects

Interview with Olafur Eliasson on his pavilion in the park for the Serpentine

The Danish artist, whose Weather Project transformed Tate Modern, discusses his building for the Serpentine Gallery