Even Milan, the home of the busiest design event of the year, the Milan Furniture Fair, which is held every April, is to host Milano Design Weekend in early October.
Acts range from Leon Russell to North Carolina bluegrass to reggae to a Phish tribute band called Strange Design; weekend admission generally runs around $12. Head back into town for drinks and a stellar sunset from the roof of downtown's beautiful Market Pavilion hotel.
Overall, the experience of teaching in the lab and now designing weekend programs with Dr. Rubinstein has been extremely fulfilling.
As part of the Digital Futures UKMX, a series of maker events between the UK and Mexico, this last weekend saw Mexican artists and technologists come to London's V&A for the museum's Digital Design Weekend.
53 true tales of love were translated into 3D-printed mandalas in LOVE PROJECT - EXPERIMENT 2, a live, interactive performance from Guto Requena, the cyber-architect who took a stand against Brazil's ugly buildings, and D3 at São Paulo Design Weekend in 2014.
Use of solar energy through passive heating is numerically evaluated for different passive designs of weekend houses with one wall made completely of masonry and with other walls made of two layers: a masonry layer and a thermal-insulation layer.
Then, in the mid-1970s, a coffee table he had designed one weekend for no other purpose than to fill a space in the family home suddenly became a major commercial breakthrough.
Now their architects, Adam Weintraub and Mishi Hosono, have designed a weekend house for them in Pennsylvania.
"He fell in love with the area and asked me right away to design a weekend house for him there," Mr. Klotz said.
So it's no surprise, then, that when Richard Gluckman designed a weekend house for himself on the East End of Long Island, he went modern.
