Culture – Page 12
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ReviewBook club review: Architecture Post Mortem
This collection of essays tracks the interaction of architecture’s literal and metaphorical deaths, says Jon Astbury
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ReviewBook Club review: Old Buildings, New Forms
Bollack’s book is a timely, critical overview of new insertions to existing buildings, says Alice Haugh
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ReviewWilliam Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
V A exhibition explores how the 18 th century master of bling helped influence the nation
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ReviewBook Club review: You Can’t Change China, China Changes You
Zac Carey reviews architect John van de Water’s Beijing odyssey
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ReviewMartino Gamper — Design is a State of Mind
Serpentine exhibition teaches us to love our shelves again, says Pamela Buxton
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ReviewBook Club review: No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral in Architecture
Karandinou’s book asks us to question the limits of architecture in order to embark on a more multi-sensory experience, says Daniel Stilwell
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ReviewRuin Lust at Tate Britain
The Tate’s new show charts our obsession with decaying buildings from Pompeii to Hackney
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ReviewArchitectural wrangles within the Oxbridge quadrangles
Essays in this latest journal explore the negotiation between architects’ obligations to modernity and the maintenance of tradition
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ReviewJoseph Rykwert RIBA Royal Gold Medal lecture
Architecture critic Joseph Rykwert pays tribute to the past winners we never saw
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Passion of Joan of Arc
This silent classic may be an ordeal to watch, but it is beautiful in its obsessive concentration
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ReviewFernand Pouillon: master of the modern middle class
The work of Fernand Pouillon is given fresh perspective in this English edition
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ReviewThe Brits Who Built The Modern World
New TV series and RIBA exhibition chart the rise of British architecture’s ‘famous five’
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ReviewSensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined at the Royal Academy
Impressive line-up provides a rich sensory experience at the RA’s new show
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ReviewBook Club review: The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
An attempt to chart the development of the British home falls flat
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ReviewBook Club review: Explore everything: Place-hacking the City by Bradley Garrett
Attempting to apply a heavy theoretical justification to urban place-hacking might be a bit of a stretch, but this book still manages to challenge conceptions about the limits of the city
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ReviewBook Club review: Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Eric J Cesal
Down Detour Road paints an accurate picture of the architecture profession
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ReviewNew titles to review in January's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from architecture’s relation to modernity to Dutch post war era master, Hugh Maaskant
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker
Despite the plethora of books already published on Kahn, this one manages to offer something new
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ReviewGreat Estates: how London’s landowners shape the city
Back-slapping and self worship from the developer sponsors overshadows the real value of this exhibition at the Building Centre
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ReviewBook Club Review: Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Personal observations and detailed research take this book beyond a simple collection of projects