WEEK IN REVIEW

BIG EARS LISTEN WITH FEET: WORLD ONLINE PREMIERE ON DESIGNBOOM

designboom partners with bêka & lemoine for the world online movie premiere of ‘big ears listen with feet’. the acclaimed artist-filmmaker duo has focused their latest documentary focusing on the moving personal story of thai architect boonserm premthada. the full movie will be available to watch for free at the top of this page from 25 to 27 november, 2022. ahead of the premiere, we spoke with ila bêka, louise lemoine and boonserm premthada to learn more about their collaboration. read our interview in full here.

REM KOOLHAAS EXPLAINS ‘RECYCLING BEAUTY' AT FONDAZIONE PRADA

fondazione prada unveils 'recycling beauty', its latest exhibition in milan offering an unprecedented study dedicated entirely to the reuse of greek and roman antiquities in post-antique contexts. during the opening, designboom caught up with OMA's rem koolhaas to learn more about the design and layout he developed for the exhibition. ‘we tried to avoid socles as we know them,' the renowned architects tells us, 'the exhibition is about re-use (of elements of antiquity) and we decided to ‘recycle’ some of the material of previous exhibitions we did together for the fondazione.'

FRUIT MEETS CHAIR IN AI-GENERATED SERIES

'what happens when fruit becomes furniture?’ in his playful AI series, ‘fruity’, architect and professor frank jacobus employs midjourney to envision new forms of hybridity and cross-pollination where a ripe cantaloupe, passion fruit, grapes, and papayas transform into surreal chair designs. see more submissions by our readers here, and find out how to upload your own project here.

the weekly is an inside review curated by sofia lekka angelopoulou.