All Book club articles – Page 6

  • November's Book club titles for review
    Review

    Book Club: November titles up for review

    2008-11-06T10:38:00Z

    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.

  • The layout of modern Beijing, highlighting some of Arup's major projects in the city
    Review

    Arup in Beijing: the lowdown

    2008-08-06T15:29:00Z

    Arup's huge influencing in shaping Beijing is detailed here

  • Central Zone Beijing Olympic Green
    Review

    Official Beijing buildings book

    2008-08-06T15:24:00Z

    Drawings, plans and dramatic photos show how Beijing was constructed in time for the 2008 games

  • Review

    Fat and (un)happy

    2008-03-14T09:41:00Z

    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: ...

  • Review

    Cocktails and the Endless City

    2008-03-14T09:38:00Z

    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 ...

  • Gehry’s Stata Center at MIT
    Review

    Twisted view

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    If gullible clients are being ripped off, this disappointing book fails to explain why, says Catherine Croft

  • Review

    Win a copy of Architecture in Detail

    2007-11-29T19:52:00Z

    We have five signed copies of Graham Bizley's collection of detail drawings, Architecture in Detail to give away.

  • Review

    Win a copy of Britain's Lost Cities

    2007-11-23T13:10:00Z

    Enter our competition to win a copy of Gavin Stamp's sobering collection of essays on post-war British architecture.

  • News

    The joy of car parks

    2007-09-07T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Review

    Conscientious objector

    2007-08-31T00:00:00Z

    From sandals to sensuality, a new book completes Bernard Rudofsky’s life story

  • Rebel modernists: Alison and Peter Smithson’s Economist building in London, 1964.
    Review

    Century in a nutshell

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    This thorough, thoughtful and balanced history is a must-read, discovers Thomas Muirhead

  • Jencks: “The last thing I want is a new hegemony.”
    Review

    The post man still delivers

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Colin St John Wilson: A “wholly convincing” thesis.
    Review

    What is greatness?

    2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

    Colin St John Wilson’s new book challenges modernist dogma.

  • A marriage of the tradcitional and the modern — Qiandai property Showroom, Shanghai, 2006, by Atelier Zhang Lei.
    Review

    Emerging from the bamboo curtain

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Yung Ho Chang’s book reveals a new Chinese architectural identity, believes Nicholas C Thompson

  • Gamble House in Pasadena, by Greene and Greene, shows the distinctive style of the arts and crafts movement in the US.
    Review

    Beauty treatment

    2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The latest in a long line of books on the arts and crafts movement looks impeccable, but brings little new illumination.