All Culture articles – Page 7
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ReviewHigh Rise and Hinterland: Modernism's morality plays
JG Ballard’s brutalising tower and Gillespie Kidd Coia’s abandoned seminary were both designed to usher in a better world. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks what went wrong
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ReviewReview: Who are you calling a maverick?
Simon Carne takes issue with a slippery definition but admits Owen Hopkins’ new book and exhibition at the Royal Academy kick-start a great debate on the nature of architectural radicalism
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ReviewReview: Creation from Catastrophe
What architecture ‘really is’ is at stake in a new exhibition at the RIBA comparing historic disaster responses with a new movement of community-led rebuilding approaches. Phil Pawlett Jackson questions the dichotomy
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TechnicalCrouch End Picture House, by Panter Hudspith
Having given new life to a nondescript 1950s building, this £4.5m north London picture house is setting new standards for sustainable cinema design
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ReviewReview: Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the late US sculptor’s work is full of shadows, literal and figurative, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewReview: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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ReviewReview: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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ReviewContemplating the bother of suburbia
Generations of planners and architects have tried to ‘solve’ the suburbs. They’d have been better off enlisting the locals, the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival heard
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ReviewReview: Palladian Design – the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
The second big Palladio exhibition in less than a decade includes some great contemporary projects, but there are a few surprising omissions, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewBook review: The Barbican - Architecture and Light
Ike Ijeh enjoys a portrait of the Barbican as spirited as Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s masterpiece itself
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ReviewBook Club review: Improbable Libraries
A new global survey of libraries is a delightful reminder of the diversity of the building type, says Stephen Smith
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ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
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ReviewWhen architects only tell one side of the story
Are architects complicit in creating narratives that ultimately serve to line developers’ pockets? Joanna Day was at an Architecture Foundation debate on the subject
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ReviewReview: Decision by Carsten Höller at the Hayward Gallery
There’s a lot to enjoy but this disorientating retrospective isn’t quite what it promises, finds Harriet Partridge
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ReviewHow do you solve a problem like education?
From making insurance sexy to strengthening hierarchies, Harriet Partridge tries to capture all the ideas flowing at a debate on how we should train architects
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ReviewReview: Architecture gallery, RA Summer Exhibition
Ian Ritchie’s curation explores the relationship between buildings and their evolving landscapes, finds Paul McGrath
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NewsAssemble to turn RIBA into brutalist playground
Turner-shortlisted architects aim for blockbuster summer show
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ReviewLearning from the Smithsons
Social housing design is back on the agenda but there are no stock answers. Joanna Day joins the conversation at an exhibition by Karakusevic Carson Architects
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ReviewSmiljan Radić’s pavilion is set free in Somerset meadow
Hauser Wirth’s architecture season explores the boundaries between architecture, sculpture and landscape. Alice Haugh is impressed
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ReviewJan Kaplicky and the art of drawing
Richard Rogers, Amanda Levete and David Nixon recall the Future Systems founder at the launch of a new book of his drawings