Mexico's first biodesign exhibition, at the Museo Franz Mayer, treats plants, fungi and microbes not as raw material but as fellow designers, and asks us to take a humbler seat at the workbench.

A desert exhibition lands in the heart of the Marais this September, as AlUla and Lafayette Anticipations pair centuries of Saudi craft with contemporary French collecting, proof that sand and concrete have more in common than the map suggests.

The firm that built M+ hands over its sketchbooks. Discretion, it turns out, was never the point.

Everyone blames the delay on a dead genius. The real culprit is a business model and it is one every self-funded museum should study.

Charles Eames drove through Nuevo León nine years before he ever met Ray, a footnote so small he barely mentioned it for decades. Now it's the opening scene of Mexico's first-ever Eames retrospective.

Uzbekistan has just become the first country in Central Asia to see its twentieth-century architecture recognised by UNESCO, and Tashkent's modernist landmarks are now, officially, the youngest buildings on the World Heritage List.

Concrete convictions: how seven newly independent nations built their identity in glass and reinforced concrete, and why MoMA's latest show could not have landed at a more Instagram-ready moment.