Culture – Page 20
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ReviewOle Scheeren ‘I deeply respect Rem’s work’
The partner at Buro Ole Scheeren on Rem Koolhaas, Beijing and architects’ terrible mistakes
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ReviewConcrete and Culture: A Material History by Adrian Forty
Adrian Forty’s new history of concrete takes an admirably even-handed approach to a material that polarises opinion
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ReviewA decade of capital designs
The London Design Festival is still pushing the boundaries as it celebrates its 10th year
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ReviewJohn Assael: ‘Barcelona has got everything’
The Assael co-founder on Victorian London, social housing and the polarisation of the architectural profession
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ReviewBjarke Ingels ‘Koolhaas is our Le Corbusier’
The founder of Bjarke Ingels Group on cartooning, Copenhagen and not asking a mother to choose between her children
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ReviewDirk Somers ‘I love the exotic side of the everyday’
The director of Antwerp-based practice Bovenbouw on school headmasters, Tokyo and urban aspirations
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Saragossa Manuscript
Outrageously elaborate sets and shifting tales make this highly fanciful account of the Napoleonic period a hallucinatory experience
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ReviewStirling & Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence by Mark Crinson
Crinson’s very readable study traces the origins of Stirling and Gowan’s creative approaches
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ReviewWhy We Build by Rowan Moore
Rowan Moore’s analysis of building through the ages delivers best when it comes to recent office gossip
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ReviewIndustri[us]: Festival of Upcycling
The creative spaces of east London’s Industri[us] upcycling festival well repay an Olympic detour
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ReviewFilm review: Eames: The Architect & The Painter
Misty-eyed anecdotes and creative anarchy go hand in hand in a film bursting with the energy of the Eames office
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ReviewStadia: Sport and Vision in Architecture
Sir John Soane’s Museum’s display of historic athletics venues charts the Olympic journey
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ReviewStreets ahead in Hackney
Eight architects unveil their visions of a deregulated east London street
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ReviewTop 50 Films for Architects: Man with a Movie Camera
Man with a Movie Camera brims over with fleeting impressions and closely observed human figures
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ReviewThe London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s book explains why London’s garden squares are still appealing
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ReviewTop 50 Films for Architects: Pixote
Pixote is a gruelling story of human waste but finds there is unexpected visual beauty in deprivation
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ReviewArchitecture students reveal how beautiful urbanism can be
European housing surveyed in new research from Stephen Bates and Bruno Krucker’s TU Munchen programme
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ReviewEelco Hooftman: 'You learn from nature’
The Gross Max founding partner on concrete gardens, lion taming and China.
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