Culture – Page 16
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ReviewHigh Rise at the National Theatre
Photographs from a five-year project exploring the relationship between high rise developments and the city below
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ReviewBook Club Review: Four Emperors and an Architect, Alicia Salter
A work of direct tone, giving knowledge at each page turn
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Urban Masterplanning Handbook, Eric Firley and Katharina Gron
Christopher Gray reviews a deep resource for architects, urban designers and planners
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ReviewGreen Fuse: The Work of Dan Pearson
A new Garden Museum exhibition places Dan Pearson’s wide-ranging career in context, writes Ellis Woodman
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part III
The last in our new series on the role of drawing in architecture explores the urbanism of the future
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part II
The second in our latest series on the role of drawing in architecture looks at the building site and the ruin
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part I
The role of drawing in architecture: Historian Nicholas Olsberg and critic Niall Hobhouse look at the way architects have employed drawing to imagine realities far removed from their own
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ReviewPrefab: Palaces for the People
A new photography exhibition documents the UK’s threatened prefabs
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ReviewHenri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light
New York’s MOMA show places Henri Labrouste at the turning point between classical and modern thinking
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ReviewMore Book Club titles up for grabs!
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Pevsner’s biography and Norman Foster on art, to mimicry in contemporary China and a new edition of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster’s Junkspace/Running Room
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ReviewNew titles added to BD's Book Club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Robert Adam’s Grand Tour and Imperial Gothic to Globalisation and urban masterplanning
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ReviewPevsner’s architectural glossary app
The new Architectural Glossary app wears its learning lightly
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ReviewBook Club Review: Dwelling with Architecture, by Roderick Kemsley and Christopher Platt
A carefully considered book that leaves the reader hungry for more detail
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: My Childhood My Ain Folk My Way Home
An uncompromising trilogy about childhood laid bare
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ReviewBook Club Review: Edward Durell Stone, by Mary Anne Hunting
A preamble through early work of post-modernism’s precursor
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ReviewBook Club Review: Zaha Hadid and Suprematism, by Galerie Gmurzynska
A beautifully illustrated portrait of Zaha Hadid’s affiliation with the Russian Supremacist art movement
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ReviewIn Search of Classical Greece at the British Museum
A chance meeting brings halcyon views of Greece, caught against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, to the public eye
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ReviewBook Club Review: Sharp words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp, by Dennis Sharp and Paul Finch
A welcome addition to the Architectural Association catalogue
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ReviewBook Club Review: Birmingham Town Hall, by Anthony Peers and Frank Salmon
A passionate account of the building’s construction and history