Paul Makovsky

Explore Helsinki Design Week 2026 and see how Aalto, Futuro House and a car-free bridge make longevity architecture’s radical future.

Maison&Objet’s Most Interesting Story Isn’t the Furniture. It’s Who Gets to Design the Future.

Explore the Juhani Pallasmaa library in Helsinki and discover how 12,000 books shaped one of architecture’s greatest thinkers. Read more.

Can a 90-Year-Old Vase Capture the Personality of a City?

Explore Architecture & Design Film Festival 2026 at MoMA, from Smiljan Radić to Renzo Piano, and discover what happens after buildings open.

See why the Architecture Billings Index July 2026 fell to 46.6 as firms face the longest ABI slump on record. Read the latest data.

Explore Utopian Hours 2026 in Turin, where Peter Cook and urban innovators rethink the future of cities. Discover what comes next.

Explore Maison&Objet September 2026 and discover how food, fragrance, wellness, craft and fashion are redefining the business of interiors.

Discover how the Issey Miyake Paper Log turns pleating waste into furniture and sculpture. See the Tokyo exhibition through September 13.

Modernism has often told a story about subtraction. It has favored the stripped-down object, the heroic male architect, the clean line, the industrial future, the liberation of design from ornament. But in early 20th-century Vienna, another version of modernity was taking shape—one made from textiles, ceramics, fashion, graphic design, interiors, social networks, and opulent surfaces. […]