All Culture articles – Page 7
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Technical
Crouch 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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Review
Review: 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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Review: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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Review: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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Contemplating 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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Review: 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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Book 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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Book 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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Book 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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When 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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Review: 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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How 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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Review: 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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News
Assemble to turn RIBA into brutalist playground
Turner-shortlisted architects aim for blockbuster summer show
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Learning 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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Smiljan 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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Jan 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
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The impossibility of rejecting history
Bernard Tschumi recalls his father, modernist architect Jean Tschumi
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The drawings of a master
Hugh McEwen recommends a visit to the RIBA’s Mackintosh exhibition – especially for fed-up students
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Learning from the Koreans
The Cass’s latest cultural exchange is full of playfulness, Phil Pawlett Jackson finds