All Culture articles – Page 19
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ReviewChronicles of Nairnia
Jonathan Meades entertaining talk on Ian Nairn failed to do justice to the legendary architecture critic
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ReviewFilms reveal secret lives of buildings
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne’s films show how buildings negotiate the difficult years following their completion
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ReviewChipperfield seeks ideas over polish at this year’s RA Summer Exhibition
David Chipperfield talks about the challenges of curating the architecture section of the 2010 Royal Academy summer show
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ReviewGothic architecture and 19th century photography
Gothic architecture’s complexity made it ideal for the pioneers of photography who could capture every detail
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ReviewThrowing new light on Ruskin’s Stones of Venice
Robert Hewison’s new book, Ruskin on Venice, tells the story behind his writings
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ReviewMaking Hackney central
A new book celebrating the Hackney Society’s 40th birthday shows that it has much to celebrate
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ReviewBack to the land
A talk at the Architecture Foundation by three of Norway’s top young practices brought together the country’s mystical landscape and urban culture
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ReviewHow Muschamp put the spirit in Manhattan
New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp’s legacy is a crop of new buildings rather than his journalism
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ReviewWhen Birmingham was workshop of the world
A new book shows how Birmingham’s industrial rise was echoed by a growth in architectural talent
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ReviewChanging the face of the Highlands
A new account of how the Scottish Enlightenment recreated the country’s architecture tells a broader story of people and place
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ReviewFrozen excitement: Glasgow School of Art marks its centenary
A symposium put Mackintosh’s building in its rightful place
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ReviewArchitectural drawing out of the wilderness
Laura Oldfield Ford’s ferocious line drawings call for a transformation of everyday space
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ReviewWitherford Watson Mann’s urban forest trail
This Rome exhibition follows a series of ‘walks’ through London’s edges
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ReviewUnderneath architects’ book covers
You can learn a great deal about architects by snooping through the collections on their library shelves
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ReviewDieter Rams’ machines for living with
The Design Museum’s Less is More exhibition reveals how Rams’ architectural training brought about a modernist revolution in product design
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ReviewStern’s bulletins from the front line of architecture
The theories in Robert Stern’s new book Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism sound convincing, but the realities surround us
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ReviewArchitects on the epiphany of inhabitation
Curated by Juhani Pallasmaa, the V&A’s second Sustaining Identity symposium discussed the spirit of place with speakers Charles Correa and South Africa’s Gawie Fagan
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ReviewMcMorran & Whitby book does them justice
A new book by Edward Denison celebrates Donald McMorran and George Whitby as significant figures within the history of 20th century British classicism
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ReviewAthanasius Kircher: The man who knew everything
Newly expanded version of Joscelyn Godwin’s book uncovers a vast treasure trove of work by the Roman critic and philosopher Athanasius Kircher
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ReviewSaarinen: Captain America
New York exhibition reveals Eero Saarinen was nothing less than an architect of the US’s ascent as a superpower