All Culture articles – Page 20
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ReviewCasting aside visions of jetpacks and spacestations
Cinema and architecture from Metropolis to Bladerunner long reflected each other's zeal for imagining the future.
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ReviewColquhoun's essays: Philosophy in practice
A new book of Alan Colquhoun’s writings reveal a man bent on using rationale to underpin architectural discourse
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ReviewCities of the Lens
A recent Architecture Foundation debate explores how the camera can help construct an ‘alternative urbanism’
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ReviewAuerbach: Opportunity from chaos
Courtauld Gallery exhibition shows Frank Auerbach’s paintings were inspired by post-war destruction and the pace of change
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ReviewLiterature on the domestic interior
Stefan Muthesius’s new book, The Poetic Home, lacks a broader cultural reference of 19th century interiors
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ReviewCroydon: The English everytown
This selection of council-owned artworks at the Museum of Croydon shows the borough as a microcosm of social history
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ReviewYorkshire's striking architecture heritage
A thorough revision of Pevsner’s survey takes full advantage of subsequent studies
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ReviewArtists in residence
Compton Verney gallery exhibition explores the relationship between artist and studio
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ReviewArchitecture on screen at the BFI
The British Film Institute’s architecture and film season, Of Dreams and Cities, runs this month at BFI Southbank, as part of the RIBA’s 175th anniversary celebrations
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ReviewMJ Long book is an adventure in inner spaces
Architect MJ Long’s new book reveals the stories behind some of her greatest studio commissions
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ReviewRetrospective on the Tyne
Lit & Phil’s exhibition is a fascinating examination of T Dan Smith’s part in creating Newcastle
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ReviewReturning hero
David Chipperfield brings his triumphal procession of international work to the UK for the first time at the Design Museum
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ReviewIncrease your word power with Ruscha at the Hayward
6a Architects has created a strong backdrop for LA-based pop artist Ed Ruscha’s work at the Hayward Gallery
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ReviewHistory of RIBA in eight chapters
Curator Alan Powers takes a celebratory tour round 175 years of thought-provoking design
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ReviewThomas Demand’s images at the Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
Demand exhibition captures key moments in post-war German history
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ReviewHead for the quiet life in public spaces
The Tranquil Spaces conference showed how designers need to get involved with forthcoming noise control measures
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ReviewDoshi’s philosophy of place
A new film explores Indian architect BV Doshi’s work and the bigger question of the professional’s role in providing socially relevant architecture
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ReviewWines reaches beyond the facade
Speaking at the Barbican Centre, it seems sustainability pioneer James Wines is still seeking the meaning of green architecture
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ReviewRotterdam’s indigestible exposition
The 4th International Architecture Biennale combines a vast volume of information with curatorial vagueness
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ReviewSemi-precious: The Freedoms of Suburbia
There’s plenty of special pleading in Paul Barker’s new book celebrating suburban life