All Culture articles – Page 15
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Film review: Inception
Christopher Nolan’s latest film offers a depressingly unrealistic idea of the architect mentality.
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Block magazine launched
This new architecture magazine’s first issue speaks for a growing culture of austerity chic.
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Permanently Magical
A new exhibition shows the latest attempt to renew Sir John Soane’s Museum
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Building a Library 22: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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IOWAC’s Studio in the Woods 2010
This year’s Studio in the Woods upheld its yearly outdoor tradition of enacting intellectual debate with chainsaws
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Columbia Building Intelligence Project Think Tank
A polemic against parametricism lit up Columbia University’s London event.
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Buildings of England: Berkshire
The expanded Pevsner guide provides a wealth of new detail and introduces the people behind the buildings
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Building a Library 21: The Hindu Temple
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Dot to dot results: July 9 2010
Last week’s winner was Celina Auterio of Zaha Hadid Architects, who identified Prague’s Rasin Building, aka Dancing Building, Fred & Ginger building by Frank Gehry
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Dot to Dot: 16 July 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday July 21 for a chance to win a copy of Bridge, by Peter Bishop.
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The American Department Store Transformed: 1920-1960, by Richard Longstreth
A new history of the golden age of American department stores is right on the money.
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Bas Smets, London Festival of Architecture
The landscape architect’s recent presentation revealed his commitment to process over PR.
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The New Décor and Ernesto Neto
The Hayward Gallery’s summer show is an uncomfortable journey into the world of interiors.
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Damascene: drawings by Michael Stiff
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Michael Stiff of Stiff & Trevillion Architects is exhibiting his pastel and pencil drawings depicting the ancient buildings of Syria.
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Dot to dot results: June 25
The winner of last week’s competition was Brian Sheriff of Gilling Dod Architects in Liverpool, who identified Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St Louis
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Building a Library 18: The Gothic Cathedral
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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The Surreal House exhibition
The Barbican Art Gallery’s attempt to examine the influence of surrealism on architecture proves monotonal and lacking in confidence
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The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment
Celina Fox has written an extraordinary account of efforts to combine the mechanical and liberal arts
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Dot to Dot: 25 June 2010
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday, June 30 for a chance to win a copy of Great Public Squares by Robert F Gatje.
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Building a Library 17: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library