Winner of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Alejandro Aravena sees the award as an opportunity to deal more quickly with urgent challenges. He told DW why the German refugee crisis is actually relatively small.
Following Barack Obama and the Rolling Stones, now Richard Wagner has landed in Cuba. The opera “Tannhäuser" has premiered in Havana.
Movimentos began hosting exciting dance events ten years ago. Among the guest artists this time is the Akram Khan Company from London with striking choreographies about globalization, homeland and love.
The only woman ever to win a Pritzker Prize, the visionary and experimental architect Zaha Hadid died unexpectedly this week at the age of 65.
Dominic Schmitz - from Islamic extremist to author and actor.
An exhibition in Bonn explores what makes the legendary Bauhaus school of design so timeless. These architects and artists came up with a revolutionary idea that is now taken for granted: Everything is design.
Katja Birker takes in a jazz concert at the Media Harbor, discovers modern architecture and finds out what a Büdchen is.
For many, Paris is almost synonymous with architectural magnificence. But among its abundant historical splendor, green spaces are few and far between. A new project worth billions of euros aims to change that.
Tonight, the prestigious Pritzker Prize will be awarded in New York - that’s like the Nobel Prize in architecture. Many of the big stars in the field have had this honour: Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano – and the late Zaha Hadid. This year’s laureate: Chilean Alejandro Aravena.
Architecture meets social commitment - a winning combination for Alejandro Aravena. The Chilean has scooped the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture.
Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates what he calls "strand beasts" or beach beasts. They look like something out of a science fiction movie, move on their own and can harness wind power.
At the beginning of the 20th century, revolutionary designers gathered around Walter Gropius and established the Bauhaus movement. An exhibition in Bonn explores what makes the iconic style so timeless.
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards in the field, for his social engagement.
A man leaves the Islamist scene and takes to the stage; a biopic reveals the darker side of Fritz Lang and we say farewell to both architect Zaha Hadid and Nobel laureate Imre Kertész.
The former German foreign minister was born near Halle. His birth house was nearly demolished. Now it houses an exhibition dedicated to unity in Germany and Europe, as a tribute to his politics of reconciliation.