Culture – Page 17
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ReviewPost-war Britain starts here
As the ICA marks the 60th anniversary of Parallel of Life Art, we reflect on the impact of a seminal exhibition
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Mill and the Cross
A lesson in turning two dimensions into three
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ReviewBook Club Review: Long Island Modernism 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski
An important historical account of the growth of modernism on Long Island
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ReviewWilliam Burges and the High Victorian Dream by J Mordaunt Crook
William Burges was a romantic and a dreamer, and his richly detailed work well deserves this weighty volume
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ReviewItalian duo redefine radical at the AA
Dogma’s AA Gallery show is conceptually rich yet visually seductive
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art by Fiona MacCarthy
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art Fiona MacCarthy Royal College of Art 288 pp, £40.00 At its foundation in 1837, the Government School of Design was established at Somerset House with just 17 students to form the world’s first publicly funded school of ...
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ReviewBook Club Review: Hotel Lobbies and Lounges by Tom Avermaete and Anne Massey
Concrete case studies, critical essays and the 1990’s film Pretty Woman
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ReviewInspirations: Architects and the buildings that inspire them
A new exhibition of Ed Tyler’s photographs recalls the highlights of interviewing architects about their inspirations
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ReviewPiranesi’s rebuilt reality
The Italian artist’s drawings of Paestum, on display at the Soane Museum, are not as innocent as they look
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ReviewBook Club Review: Lincoln Center Inside Out, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Nicholas de Klerk looks at a book that is as large and as heavy as the building it describes
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ReviewSergison Bates Architects: Buildings
A new book shows how Sergison Bates’ sensitive yet radical housing stands out from the crowd
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: Faust
Murnau’s film leaves neither time nor space for things to unfold slowly
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ReviewBook Club Review: James Wyatt: Architect to George III, by John Martin Robinson
A detailed and fascinating narrative of Wyatt’s extraordinary life
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ReviewFrozen Relic: Arctic Works by Scanlab
AA exhibition reveals the hidden depths of the Arctic with 3D images
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ReviewBook Club Review: Naked Architecture by Valerio Paolo Mosco
Nicholas Roberts struggles to see ‘naked’ as a potentially useful metaphor for architecture
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ReviewThe real designs for living
The question of how to display the everyday is raised once again by the Design Museum’s new exhibition
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ReviewPrototyping Architecture
Design’s tense relationship with technology is well captured at the Building Centre
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ReviewHot off the press
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from the influence of Russian Suprematism on Zaha Hadid to a history of Birmingham Town Hall