Culture – Page 2
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ReviewReview | London of the Future
Chris Dyson is challenged and inspired by a new book that plots multiple future trajectories for London
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ReviewReview | The architecture of Kay Fisker: ‘These titles should be compulsory reading on every architecture course’
Matthew Wickens reviews two recent books on Kay Fisker, the renowned Danish architect
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ReviewReview | Queer Nature at Kew Gardens
A new festival at Kew showcases a diverse range of voices and artists by exploring their relationship to plants and nature, writes Sarah Simpkin
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ReviewReview | RIBA Climate Guide
A new guide to delivering sustainable places misses an opportunity to highlight the centrality of reuse in addressing climate change, writes Laura Baron
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ReviewReview | Becoming Urban: The Mongolian City of Nomads
The challenges of a rapidly urbanising Mongolia are dissected and addressed in a new book, reviewed by Katharine Heron
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ReviewReview | Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter
Hugh Petter’s work offers a much needed riposte to the orthodoxies of much architecture and urbanism over the last 60 years, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
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ReviewReview | High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis
A new book on high streets invites us to see the retail crisis in a different light, and seek out innovative ways to reinvent our urban centres, writes Jennie Savage
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ReviewReview | Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice
Stephen Lovejoy reviews a new book that dissects the industry, while celebrating the value that architects can bring elsewhere
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ReviewReview | Peter Womersley, by Neil Jackson
James Grimley enjoys a new book on Peter Womersley and hopes that it acts as ‘a rallying call to action’ on preserving the architect’s work
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ReviewReview | Mousa to Mackintosh: the Scottishness of Scottish architecture
Roger Emmerson reviews a new book on the history of Scottish architecture
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ReviewReview | Norman Foster at the Centre Pompidou: ‘Definitive… for now’
This giant restrospective captures the rich diversity of Foster’s output, but leaves the man still something of a mystery, writes Sarah Simpkin
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ReviewHerzog and de Meuron at the Royal Academy: ‘This is not a retrospective’
The RA has mounted an exhibition that tells an intriguing and judicously edited story about the renowned Swiss practice, writes Daniel Elsea
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ReviewReview | Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person
A new book by Andy Field reminds Karl Singporewala of the vital importance of in-person interactions
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ReviewReview | Isaac Julien: What Freedom Means to Me
Nicholas de Klerk finds an exhibition at Tate Britain is a reminder that the creation of buildings and their use over time is an essentially collective human endeavour
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ReviewReview | At Home in London: The Mansion Block, by Karin Templin
Giles Heather finds a new book on the London mansion block uplifting, but wonders whether the contemporary typology needs to be better defined
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ReviewReview | The Deck Access Housing Design Guide
A new book on the history and design of deck access housing convinces Tony McIntryre that there is still much mileage in this particular typology
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ReviewReview | Housing for Hope and Wellbeing, by Flora Samuel
Stephanie Edwards welcomes Flora Samuel’s book on the challenges facing housing, as well as her optimistic call for action
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ReviewReview | Windows in Architecture, by Christopher Masters
Tony McIntyre enjoys a new publication from Merrell
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ReviewReview | Edward Cullinan Architects, by Kenneth Powell
A new book reveals the ‘somewhat eccentric sensibility of an often very good architect’, finds Patrick Lynch
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ReviewA Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape by Victoria Perry
Jeremy Musson finds that a new book on architecture and slavery is informative, but wonders where it leaves the debate about how to manage the built heritage that is its legacy