All Book club review articles – Page 6
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ReviewBook club review: Architecture Post Mortem
This collection of essays tracks the interaction of architecture’s literal and metaphorical deaths, says Jon Astbury
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ReviewBook Club review: Old Buildings, New Forms
Bollack’s book is a timely, critical overview of new insertions to existing buildings, says Alice Haugh
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ReviewBook Club review: You Can’t Change China, China Changes You
Zac Carey reviews architect John van de Water’s Beijing odyssey
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ReviewBook Club review: No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture
Karandinou’s book asks us to question the limits of architecture in order to embark on a more multi-sensory experience, says Daniel Stilwell
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ReviewBook Club review: The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
An attempt to chart the development of the British home falls flat
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ReviewBook Club review: Explore everything: Place-hacking the City by Bradley Garrett
Attempting to apply a heavy theoretical justification to urban place-hacking might be a bit of a stretch, but this book still manages to challenge conceptions about the limits of the city
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ReviewBook Club review: Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Eric J Cesal
Down Detour Road paints an accurate picture of the architecture profession
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker
Despite the plethora of books already published on Kahn, this one manages to offer something new
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ReviewBook Club Review: Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Personal observations and detailed research take this book beyond a simple collection of projects
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ReviewBook Club Review: China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing by Charles D. Musgrove
A rich and refined account of the ‘Nanjing Decade’ with chapters so thorough they could stand alone
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ReviewBook Club Review: Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living by Avi Friedman
A good overview of environmental dwellings let down by a lack of consistency in the details
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ReviewBook Club Review: Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi
A promising handbook struggles to pitch itself at the right level
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ReviewBook Club Review: Weather Architecture by Jonathan Hill
Hill’s arument may contain some incontinuities, but his passion for user-based design shines through
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ReviewBook Club Review: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea by Inha Jung
An insightful study of Korea’s struggle to maintain tradition and consistency against the unstoppable force of modernisation
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ReviewBook Club Review: The View from the Train, by Patrick Keiller
Keiler’s essays have been published before, but this collection brings new clarity to his work
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Xmas Meier
Local residents obsess over Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in the suburbs of Rome
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo
Helmet-mounted cameras provide a vertiginous trip up Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao
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ReviewAlison Smithson: portrait of a pioneer
Rachel Cooke’s new book, Her Brilliant Career, tells the stories of 10 women who led inspirational lives in the 1950s. Here we present an extract from the chapter devoted to Alison Smithson
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife
Housekeeper Guadalupe gives a sharp assessment of Rem Koolhaas’ Maison Bordeaux
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Inside Piano
The fifth book in the Living Architectures series which looks at the experiential qualities of three Renzo Piano buildings