All Book club review articles – Page 2
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ReviewReview | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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ReviewReview | What is a queer space?
Stephen Molloy is entertained and impressed by the tender beauty of new RIBA publication Queer Spaces but is troubled by the lack of a clear definition of what they are. Co-author and editor Adam Nathaniel Furman explains why the book resists being pinned down.
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ReviewReview | There is nothing else remotely like it in modern architecture
Post modern architect John Outram’s colourful and exuberant style is back in fashion. Tony McIntyre reviews a major new book on the man and his work
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FeaturesThe bridges every architect should know
Marcus Binney leads a tour of the world’s most inspiring crossings
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NewsRA announces biggest investment in architecture this century
Two prizes and major new Chipperfield gallery spaces to be devoted to architecture
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FeaturesThe mysterious Indian architecture that's vanishing with barely a murmur
India was once covered by stepwells - a typology unique to the country - but they are now facing extinction. A new book by Victoria Lautman aims to draw international attention to these fascinating structures
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OpinionGentrification may be brutalism’s best hope
What’s happening at the Balfron has infuriated many but don’t be too quick to criticise, cautions Owen Hopkins. The alternative for many brutalist gems is oblivion
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OpinionWhy I welcome the rise of east London
Gentrification is not all bad, argues Charles Saumarez Smith, a long-standing resident of the East End
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FeaturesCan you design one of the world’s most famous buildings and be forgotten?
You’ve slaved for years over window details before finally getting to work on the project your grandchildren will talk about. But will anyone else remember you as they take a selfie in front of it? Eternal fame is far from guaranteed, cautions Jonathan Glancey
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FeaturesFrom the spoon to the city: Richard Rogers on Alvar Aalto
In his introduction to a new book on Aalto, Richard Rogers hails the Finnish architect’s sensitivity to detail at every level
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FeaturesHow business park architecture has traduced London's skyline
In this extract from his new book, Jonathan Glancey accuses leading architects of souring world-class views with a grubby provincialism
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ReviewCommunal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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FeaturesShould we be celebrating or lamenting Glasgow's 'renaissance'?
Glasgow once built more tower blocks than any city in Britain. In a demolition programme of similar ambition, a third have have been lost in the last decade. It’s time to reappraise the whole enterprise, says Johnny Rodger, co-author of a new book on the subject
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ReviewBook Club review: How to Read Towns & Cities
An appealing idea doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, finds Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club Review: Studio Craft & Technique for Architects
Every architect will find this handy guide to practical skills useful, says Matthew Elsinor
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FeaturesThe tragic myth of Scotland's modernist masterpiece
As a ruin, Gillespie, Kidd Coia’s Cardross Seminary has become a cult object. But the folklore obscures a much richer story, argues the author of a definitive new book
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FeaturesTwo years after Patty Hopkins ‘vanished’, women are still being airbrushed out of architecture
The issues raised by a new and wide-ranging exploration of gender in the profession are as relevant to men as they are to women, explains co-editor James Benedict Brown
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ReviewBook Club review: Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks
Benjamin Fallows thinks this book’s ‘pamphlety’ delivery obscures its important message on conservation
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ReviewWhy can’t architects write in a language normal people can understand?
A good book on a great architect is let down by its impenetrable prose, laments Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewNew titles to review in BD's summer architecture book club
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