All Book club review articles – Page 3
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ReviewBook Club review: Form Heft Material
The literal and figurative journeys that have brought David Adjaye to the eve of the opening of his Smithsonian are traced in this thematic collection
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ReviewBook Club review: Architectural Agents
Can buildings kill, maim and trigger addiction? And if so could they also be designed to have a positive effect on users?
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InspirationsBook review and competition: 50 Architects 50 Buildings - The buildings that inspire architects
BD’s long-running Architects’ Inspirations series is one of the magazine’s best-loved features. Now the twentieth-century buildings have been brought together for the first time in a new book. Paul McGrath takes a look.
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ReviewBook Club review: The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey
Nicholas Vaughan Roberts on an architect who could produce a set of scaled plans, sections and elevations in a weekend
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ReviewBook Club review: Concrete Concept
Simon Carne hopes this book will reach the unconverted, but warns of the perils of fetishising concrete without understanding its pitfalls
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ReviewPeter Aldington reminds us that we need slow architecture
Good architecture takes the kind of time that’s in short supply these days, says Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewBook Club review: Deployable Structures
From Buckminster Fuller to Adam Kalkin, these important and intriguing structures deserve a more heavyweight assessment than this pocket guide can deliver, says Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club review: Modernist Estates
Balazs Endrodi finds this richly illustrated hardback a pleasure to look at but a little disappointing to read
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ReviewBook Club review: Soundings from the Estuary
Paul Lincoln reviews a meditative essay in words and pictures
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ReviewAfter Chernobyl: Moving a whole town
Book Club: Balazs Endrodi, who grew up in one of the Soviet Union’s ‘nuclear cities’, reviews a new guide to the nation’s last atomgrad
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ReviewBook Club review: An Igloo on the Moon
This children’s introduction to architecture will delight adults too, says Gem Barton
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OpinionBritain's urban literacy is a national scandal
Critic Jonathan Glancey laments the loss of city making skills
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ReviewReview: Who are you calling a maverick?
Simon Carne takes issue with a slippery definition but admits Owen Hopkins’ new book and exhibition at the Royal Academy kick-start a great debate on the nature of architectural radicalism
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ReviewBook Club Review: 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Simon Carne is left underwhelmed by this slab-like book-as-building-material
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ReviewBook Club review: The Changing Image of Affordable Housing
Richard Timmins reviews a worthwhile study of an alternative approach to developing affordable architecture
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ReviewBook Club review: Pevsner - the BBC years
Matthew Elsinor reviews a heavyweight appraisal of Pevsner as broadcaster
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ReviewBook Club review: Estate and Context
Simon Carne reviews two books which address the same question from very different angles
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ReviewBook Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
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OpinionHolding guilty buildings to account
Novelist Orhan Pamuk, creator of The Museum of Innocence, questions whether buildings are really so sinless. His conclusion is welcomed by Annabel Wharton whose new book accuses an art gallery of murder
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ReviewNew titles to review in BD's autumn architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of 10 new titles