“All Monuments Must Fall.” Four words, calling out and calling up. An indictment of police terror, a demand for an end to impunity. The Critical Studies Seminar of the CCC Research-based Master…
All those who have visited the Venice Biennale have noticed a monument on the waterfront in front of the Giardini, almost in front of the Swiss Pavilion. It is the famous memorial…
In this essay, Javier Fernández Contreras examines the implications of architectural photography’s daytime tropism. While Modernism saw the development of an architectural thinking inspired by nocturnal leisure and entertainment venues such as…
The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…
In this conversation, Richard Levene returns to the origins of the leading architecture magazine El Croquis, which he co-founded as he was finishing his architecture studies in 1982. Originally published as a…
This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…
Raising of Chicago, a visionary project of the 19th century engineering, was a project consisting of lifting the whole city up to 14 feet above the city’s original location. Such projects blending…
In 1935, during French colonialism in Maghreb, the Franco-British moviemaker Edmond Thonger Gréville finished his movie Princess Tam Tam, starring Joséphine Baker as a poor young Tunisian woman named Aouïna. In the…
Aude Fellay has interviewed designers for this special feature dedicated to the issues facing contemporary fashion shows. Although they all condemn the industry’s overproduction and the image effects, at the expense of…
For the first time, the Department of Interior Design has been commissioned to design the scenography of the fashion show for the Fashion Design graduates’ collections which will be held on 8…