All Book club articles – Page 3
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ReviewBook Club Review: Concrete: Photography and Architecture, Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig, Urs Stahel
300 photographs with insightful essays demonstrate the deep bond between architecture and photography
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ReviewBook Club Review: Sex and Buildings, Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams introduces a wide ensemble of psychologists, quacks, hippies and architects all in search of libidinal paradise
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ReviewBook Club review: Memories of Cities: Trips and Manifestoes
An eclectic and personally driven homage to the built environment
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ReviewBook Club Review: Brick by Brick, David C. Robertson with Bill Breen
A must-read for Lego enthusiasts that boasts valuable lessons for business development
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ReviewBook Club Review: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Jean-Louis Cohen
A collection of essays accompanying MoMA’s New York exhibition finds Le Corbusier’s work still fascinating
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ReviewA special edition of BD's Book Club
In this special edition of BD’s Book Club, we are giving you the chance to read and review one of five titles from the Living Architectures series
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ReviewBook Club Review: Irony or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture, Emmanuel Petit
This well-researched book concentrates on a worthy thesis but could do with the deft touch of an editor
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ReviewNew titles to review for BD's Book Club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, covering topics from sex and buildings, to Kabbalah and architecture, concrete and Le Corbusier
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ReviewBook Club Review: Moving: Norman Foster on Art
An intriguing addition to our understanding of one of Britain’s most high-profile living architects
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Architecture of Natural Light, Henry Plummer
A thoughtful journey through the several possible results of the synergy between architecture and natural light
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ReviewBook Club Review: Imperial Gothic, G. A Bremner
An honest and critical reassessment of ecclesiastical projects of the British colonies
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ReviewBook Club Review: Detail in Contemporary Bar and Restaurant Design, Drew Plunkett and Olga Reid
An in-depth examination of restaurant design that provides any future globetrotters with a list of places to eat across the world
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Globalisation of Modern Architecture, Robert Adam
Robert Adam laudably tackles a wide-ranging subject in this stimulatingly written book
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ReviewBook Club Review: Four Emperors and an Architect, Alicia Salter
A work of direct tone, giving knowledge at each page turn
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ReviewMore Book Club titles up for grabs!
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Pevsner’s biography and Norman Foster on art, to mimicry in contemporary China and a new edition of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster’s Junkspace/Running Room
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ReviewNew titles added to BD's Book Club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Robert Adam’s Grand Tour and Imperial Gothic to Globalisation and urban masterplanning
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ReviewHot off the press
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from the influence of Russian Suprematism on Zaha Hadid to a history of Birmingham Town Hall
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ReviewA German solution to the challenges facing the NHS
BookConstruction and Design Manual: Medical Practices by Dorte Becker and Philip MeuserDom Publishers, HB, 400 pages, 2010, £59.55In Germany, with the privatisation of healthcare, the role of the doctor has changed in recent years to become that of “health adviser”. With this change “clients” (the new term for patients) have ...
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ReviewYael Reisner's casual socialising digs deep on the subject of beauty in architecture
The glittering cast at least tells us that, for Yael Reisner, compiling Architecture and Beauty was an enviable exercise in casual socialising — visiting Venice with Cook, gabbling with Gehry in LA, even lunching in London with Woods.
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ReviewAutumn 2010 titles for review
This season’s bookclub examines the early life of Pevsner, before he landed on our shores and intimate conversations with some of architecture’s best-known figures.