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A selection of articles on architecture and design by Robert Such.

Here are a few articles on architecture and design that I’ve written over the years. They include profiles on leading architects and lighting designers, and published pieces on just about anything from hotels to art installations.

Tadao Ando

By Robert Such. Published in mondo arc. The Minamidera Art House Project guide, standing at the entrance to the rectangular wooden building that houses James Turrell’s …
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Martin Klaasen

By Robert Such. Published in mondo arc. Throughout his long and distinguished career, lighting designer Martin Klaasen has been involved in a long list of iconic …
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Monika Gora’s Glass Bubble

By Robert Such. Published in Landscape Architecture Magazine. Standing in the courtyard of a retirement home for the elderly in the Swedish city of Malmö, Monika Gora’s 35-foot-high …
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Doubts and Hopes. A Conversation with Kent Karlsson

By Robert Such. Published in Sculpture Magazine. Dreams, memories, politics, history and religion inform the artworks of Kent Karlsson. The Swedish artist works everyday objects and iconic …
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So Tschumi

By Robert Such. Published in World Architecture. Between Paris and Disneyland, on a growing university campus, stands Bernard Tschumi’s Ecole d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée. His trademark industrial …
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Hi Hotel

By Robert Such. Published in Frame Magazine. The 38-room Hi Hotel in Nice may occupy a narrow spatial footprint, but its cultural reach is far wider, …
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With Plants Sprouting From Walls, it’s the Chia Pet of Buildings

By Robert Such. Published in The New York Times. A new apartment building in Montpellier, in the south of France, is designed to sprout vegetation from …
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Rule breakers

By Robert Such. Published in Domus. Life, energy and movement are some of the meanings for UnSangDong, the name chosen by Jang and Chang Hoon Shin …
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Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda lights up Amsterdam

By Robert Such. Published in Architectural Record. Although widely known as a composer of electronic music, 42-year-old Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda began working with light as …
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Profile of Rogier van der Heide

By Robert Such. Published in mondo arc. “I don’t do lighting for buildings, I do lighting for people.” Robert Such speaks to the Global Leader of …
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Light box

By Robert Such. Published in The Architectural Review. Apparently just a gleaming metal box, Dominique Perrault’s new mediatheque contains some intriguing surprises. Located in Venissieux, a southern …
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Bending the street

By Robert Such. Published in Domus. Ever since 1975, when Christian de Portzamparc designed Les Hautes Formes in Paris’ 13th arrondissement, France’s social housing agencies have been …
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Nouvel approaches

By Robert Such. Published in Blueprint. Paris has many presidential ‘grand projets’ – including the Musée d’Orsay, the Opéra Bastille and the arch at La Défense …
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Altering form and sound with movement

By Robert Such. Published in Architectural Record. Despite its name, Son-O-House is not a house but a permanent public artwork that is both a pavilion and …
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Natural Justice

By Robert Such. Published in World Architecture. “It was the most impossible site for a law court,” says Christian de Portzamparc, architect of the Palais de …
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Remember Paris?

By Robert Such. Published in The Independent on Sunday. Paris is many things: chic, sophisticated, stylish. But one thing it isn’t is mould-breaking. Modern Parisians are …
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Profile about light artist Yann Kersale

By Robert Such. Published in Lighting Equipment News. A mid-afternoon stroll around French artist Yann Kersalé’s garden wasn’t such a good idea. Not if I wished …
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90s Sci Fi meets 70s Hi Tech

By Robert Such. Published in Architectural Design. Before we tackle the story behind Jakob and MacFarlane’s installation-cum-architecture at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, let us suggest a …
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Denmark landmark

By Robert Such. Published in Hospitality Design. Looking like an outsized piece of elaborately folded paper, the new Bella Sky Hotel just outside the Danish capital …
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Screen Dreams

By Robert Such. Published in The Independent and Courrier International (French title: En balade dans les salles obscure). I pressed my nose up to the …
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Toh Yah Li

By Robert Such. Profile article about lighting designer Toh Yah Li. Published in mondo arc. One of the first professionals to become a Certified Lighting Designer …
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Nuances in the quality of light

By Robert Such. Published in Architectural Record. For almost two decades, visual artist Stephen Hennessy has fashioned spectacular custom light fittings for civic, commercial and residential …
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    • Architectural Design
    • Architectural Record
    • Blueprint
    • Courrier International
    • Domus
    • Frame Magazine
    • Hospitality Design
    • Lanscape Architecture Magazine
    • Lighting Equipment News
    • mondo arc
    • Sculpture Magazine
    • The Architectural Review
    • The Independent
    • The Independent on Sunday
    • The New York Times
    • World Architecture