Culture – Page 13
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ReviewAnti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture & Design by Gavin Stamp
Gavin Stamp’s Apollo columns reveal his passions
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ReviewBook Club Review: China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing by Charles D. Musgrove
A rich and refined account of the ‘Nanjing Decade’ with chapters so thorough they could stand alone
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ReviewWhy city planning needs the human perspective
Bird droppings and perfume bottles at a lively and provocative Urban Thresholds Conference
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ReviewBook Club Review: Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living by Avi Friedman
A good overview of environmental dwellings let down by a lack of consistency in the details
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s — 1980s
Part III in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1900 — 1930s
Part II in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1815 — 1900
This selection of drawings chronicles the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewBook Club Review: Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi
A promising handbook struggles to pitch itself at the right level
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ReviewNew titles to review in December's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from the history of the British home to the way we’ll live next - the aerotropolis
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ReviewBook Club Review: Weather Architecture by Jonathan Hill
Hill’s arument may contain some incontinuities, but his passion for user-based design shines through
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ReviewIan Nairn: Words in Place by Gillian Darley and David McKie
Thirty years after his death, a new study explores Ian Nairn’s life and work
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ReviewBook Club Review: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea by Inha Jung
An insightful study of Korea’s struggle to maintain tradition and consistency against the unstoppable force of modernisation
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ReviewNew titles to review in November's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from interior design and sustainable homes to Louis Kahn and China’s contested capital
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ReviewBook Club Review: The View from the Train, by Patrick Keiller
Keiler’s essays have been published before, but this collection brings new clarity to his work
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Xmas Meier
Local residents obsess over Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in the suburbs of Rome
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ReviewPop Art Design at the Barbican Art Gallery
Steve Rose discovers pop art’s deep and lasting influence on architecture
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ReviewBook Club Review: Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo
Helmet-mounted cameras provide a vertiginous trip up Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao
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ReviewRemaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
“Gentrification is sold as trickle-down – but instead brings wholesale destruction and displacement of communities”
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Review50 films for Architects: La Promesse
Hard-hitting film set in a dreary nowhere city is a tale of cruelty and redemption
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ReviewAlison Smithson: portrait of a pioneer
Rachel Cooke’s new book, Her Brilliant Career, tells the stories of 10 women who led inspirational lives in the 1950s. Here we present an extract from the chapter devoted to Alison Smithson