The architect as a moderator of change With the exhibition "Small Scale, Big Change", the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is honoring socially motivated architecture from around the world. On display are eleven projects which, detached from the mainstream, help to improve local living conditions. As meager as the means may in some cases be, the impact this commitment to building has is astonishing.


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Kaleidoscopic urban planning The exhibition "Realstadt. Wishes knocking on reality's doors" is showing in Berlin more than 300 architecture and urban planning projects from all over Germany. The exhibition stretches across around 8,000 square meters, yet as far as content goes, the presentation leaves many questions unanswered and the exhibits are more like showy objects.


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As you like it! The specialist trade fair architect@work is intended specifically for architects, interior designers and planners. And has long since been established in other European countries. On December 8 and 9, it debuts in Germany, with Düsseldorf as the exhibition venue.


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Stylepark out and about From today the Internet platform Stylepark is also adapting to mobile end devices and from November 2010 Stylepark's very own app will be available. This way, the culture of design and architecture presented by Stylepark becomes an extremely handy reference when you are out and about.


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Making chairs! The exhibition entitled "Ideen sitzen / Ideas that sit well" at Hamburg's Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe invites visitors to peruse chairs, armchairs and sofas. The tour of the museum swiftly morphs into a voyage of discovery through the history of interior design, if not even the history of ideas and cultural history of recent decades.


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Added-value surfaces Berlin's Aedes gallery is holding a small but high-quality group exhibition on the topic of surfaces, called "Membranes, Surfaces, Boundaries. Creating Interstices".


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Brave new world "Interieur 2010" in Kortrijk has as its title "The New World". And the trade fair organizers believe that the new world is characterized by optimism not pessimism, by reflection not superficiality, by color not sobriety. And thus it is that the Interieur biennial once again takes its stand as a promising place within the design universe.


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American Modernism Dressed up in a Cocktail Dress We have recently seen the 100th anniversary of the birth of US architecture photographer Julius Shulman would have recently turned 100. With Richard Neutra as his patron, in the 1950s the self-taught photographer swiftly emerged as one of the most important architecture photographers in the United States. To this day, the narrative feel if his images is enthralling, evoking a world somewhere between reality and fiction.


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Selected exhibitors at Orgatec 2010 October 26th will see the presentation at Orgatec in Cologne of all the new products for the design of offices and public spaces. A list of selected exhibitors tells you which manufacturers are attending, and where to find them.

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What Bauhaus could never have imagined The latest tubular steel product from Thonet is a floor luminaire called "Lum". With its curved shape, it seems to bridge the gap between classic and contemporary tubular steel furniture. Let us take you on a tour of the history, spanning decades, of its development.


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Normal, active and passive: sitting Danish designer Kasper Salto dreamed up new chair for Fritz Hansen, a shell chair that allows for any number of different seating positions. Because you only sit healthily if you keep on changing your position. Nancy Jehmlich in conversation with Salto about today's challenges of designing a chair.


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You buy the ethics too Autumn is coming - and naturally enough people are starting to view life from a more contemplative angle. Capitalism at any rate doesn't take a break. So why should you not use the autumn to clarify a few mechanisms in the design of the world economy? The time-honored RSA not only makes this educational but also entertaining by having wonderful illustrations added to lectures.


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From A to Y Few are quite as conversant withthe language of fashion as Hussein Chalayan. It is no wonder, then, that the British fashion designer's retrospective - currently on show at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art - is based on the alphabet. This certainly does not mean, though, that the order of the characters is set in stone. Nor, indeed, that a final end point is visible. Chalayan's language incorporates the body, space, image, music, text and textiles, functioning on the borders of what can be said.

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Just stay calm It is not easy to portray design as a process. The book "Design is a nervous thing", which features the "Satellite"projects by the Stuttgarter Akademie der Bildenden Künste makes a stab at it - combining text and images. Sadly, it fails to achieve the right balance.

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Seismographs of Architecture Next Thursday and Friday, an expert architectural symposium at Pinakothek der Moderne will address the phenomenon of crossover between architecture, art and society. The events series, entitled "futureLAB by 3M", itself practices the selfsame principle of crossover.


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Finding out about the world of objects With his book "Design-Atlas von 1850 bis heute" Enrico Morteo presents a broad range of desirable worldly objects, and on 200 double pages explains how they were made, the effect they have, and the background to them.

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Back when Chandigarh was being built Ernst Scheidegger's photos of the Indian city of Chandigarh document the reality of a utopia being built. More than 50 years later and previously unpublished, the photos are now appearing for the first time in an illustrated book.

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Books, shelves sagging However promising the read may seem to be, there are always more interesting books than time to read them. Meaning that the stack of books and with it your bad conscience grow and you end up staring failure in the face. The tool of last resort: Clear the stack before the Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors again.


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