Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been confirmed as the next curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale. He says he aims to “give a new look” to architecture’s basic elements “to see if we can discover something new about architecture.”

“Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue,” said critic Paul Goldberger of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who died Monday at age 91.

Speculative design studio Metahaven, featured in our touring exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production, opens a new show at MoMA PS1 on Jan. 20. Organized by former Walker curator Peter Eleey, it includes new work about a new cloud-hosting enterprise in Iceland.

With its new site, Nothing Major, Pitchfork is taking on visual culture: “We love the bedroom GIF-makers, the resurgent craftsmen, the by-hand-typographers, vintage album cover aficionados, upstart brands as well as unsung classics, and amazing underdog projects…”

Unbeige gives building-of-the-year honors to Swiss architecture firm (and Walker expansion designers) Herzog & de Meuron for the Parrish Art Museum: It’s “a stealth beauty, an extruded artist’s studio that appears as a bleached, barn-like structure.”

Completed late and over budget, the Stedelijk’s new “ridiculous looking” bathtub-shaped addition by Benthem Crouwel represents “civic icon-envy,” writes Michael Kimmelman, who says it’s a desperate response to the Guggenheim Bilbao.

It’s a new age of printing, as Amanda Ghassaei demonstrates: she’s devised a way of converting digital audio files into 3D printable 33 rpm records. She’s printed out singles by Nirvana, the Pixies, and others.

Under the motto “books in an expanded field,” Badlands Unlimited aims to challenge ideas about publishing to encompass everything from art shows curated for the Kindle and iPad to experimental typography and artist e-books. In an interview with Barcelona-based Latitudes, Badlands’ Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, and Micaela Durand discuss their work “embracing every facet of a book’s social life today.”

So Matt Olson of ROLU (the Minneapolis-based landscape and furniture design studio) approached me a few weeks ago to talk about a potential project for their big display at this year’s Art Basel Miami/Design Miami. He came to me with the idea of coming up with a cheap zine that would talk about ROLU, include […] So Matt Olson of ROLU (the Minneapolis-based landscape and furniture design studio…