All Book club articles – Page 6
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Book Club: November titles up for review
Titles up for review in November in BD's Book Club take in a broad range of interests from modern Swedish design to portable architecture.
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Official Beijing buildings book
Drawings, plans and dramatic photos show how Beijing was constructed in time for the 2008 games
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Fat and (un)happy
Architect and critic Elizabeth Farrelly has used architecture as her jumping off point to explore the connections between our environment and over-consumption.“Welcome to Blubberland, a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: ...
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Cocktails and the Endless City
Publication of The Endless City was marked on Wednesday (12th March) with a discussion between the title’s editors and world city experts. At a cocktail reception at London’s Tate Modern gallery, editors Ricky Burdett, centennial professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the London School of Economics, and Deyan Sudjic, Design ...
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Twisted view
If gullible clients are being ripped off, this disappointing book fails to explain why, says Catherine Croft
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Win a copy of Architecture in Detail
We have five signed copies of Graham Bizley's collection of detail drawings, Architecture in Detail to give away.
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Win a copy of Britain's Lost Cities
Enter our competition to win a copy of Gavin Stamp's sobering collection of essays on post-war British architecture.
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The joy of car parks
FIRST PERSON: Simon Henley, author of a new book on parking architecture, explains his passion IMAGES: Six of the best OPINION: A fascinating account long-overdue COMPETITION: Win a copy of the book
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Conscientious objector
From sandals to sensuality, a new book completes Bernard Rudofsky’s life story
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Century in a nutshell
This thorough, thoughtful and balanced history is a must-read, discovers Thomas Muirhead
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The post man still delivers
Thirty years after his seminal book on po-mo, Charles Jencks continues to grapple with the world after modernism. As his latest book on the subject is published, he speaks to Ellis Woodman
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Emerging from the bamboo curtain
Yung Ho Chang’s book reveals a new Chinese architectural identity, believes Nicholas C Thompson
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Beauty treatment
The latest in a long line of books on the arts and crafts movement looks impeccable, but brings little new illumination.