Culture – Page 4
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ReviewCaruso St John’s collected works: ‘An insightful journey through a pivotal period in British architecture’
Edmund Fowles reviews the first volume of Caruso St John’s collected works
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ReviewReview | A moment in time: The disappearing architecture of the Bengali Renaissance
To fully understand the Bengali Renaissance we need to understand and preserve its architecture, writes Megan Kirkpatrick
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ReviewReview | Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Nicholas de Klerk is stimulated and inspired by Ruth Lang’s book on creative reuse
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ReviewReview | Brutalist Britain by Elain Harwood
Jenny Marris reviews a new book on the architecture that defined an era
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ReviewReview | Back to the Drawing Board: An Exhibition of Recent Work by James Willis & Carl Laubin
Two very different artists have found common themes and rediscovered the pleasure of the drawing board, writes Tony McIntyre
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ReviewReview | 21st Century Houses: RIBA Award-Winning Homes
Matthew Lloyd appreciates the production quality of a new book on RIBA award-winning houses, but wonders what happened to the floorplans
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ReviewReview | Birmingham: The Brutiful Years
Joe Holyoak welcomes a new book on Birmingham’s modernist architecture, but despairs at a civic culture that fetishises the wrecking ball
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ReviewReview | Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life
Patrick Lynch finds that a book on Sigurd Lewerentz reveals new perspectives on the Swedish architect while also reinforcing his enduring relevance to contemporary practice
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OpinionThe successful handover of our top practices matters to all of us
The UK’s top practices play a critical role in the life of the architectural profession and wider economy. Who runs them when their founders move on really does matter, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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ReviewReview | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
Emma Dent Coad enjoys a book on twentieth-century houses and wonders whether it has lessons to teach us about the current housing crisis
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OpinionNever mind the placemaking rules – this was London as theatre
Strolling around Whitehall and Horseguards is a dispiriting urban experience with little typological variety, but that is not the point, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionOverheating buildings are architects’ responsibility too
It’s time to rethink your attitudes to thermal comfort - if not for the sake of the planet, then for the sake of your insurance premiums, writes Eleanor Jolliffe.
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ReviewReview | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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ReviewReview | What is a queer space?
Stephen Molloy is entertained and impressed by the tender beauty of new RIBA publication Queer Spaces but is troubled by the lack of a clear definition of what they are. Co-author and editor Adam Nathaniel Furman explains why the book resists being pinned down.
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ReviewReview | Two rooms and two curators: this Summer Exhibition is mixing things up
The RA’s architecture room focuses on the climate emergency but only underlines the inadequacy of most architects’ responses, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | There is nothing else remotely like it in modern architecture
Post modern architect John Outram’s colourful and exuberant style is back in fashion. Tony McIntyre reviews a major new book on the man and his work
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ReviewReview | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | Straight Line Crazy: Forces that shaped our cities are still in evidence today
David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy is a powerful production that examines how an unelected planner can affect millions of lives, writes Thomas Lane
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FeaturesIt takes more than a design guide to produce quality council housing
Governance, procurement and culture are the real hurdles, says Claire Bennie
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OpinionIt’s time to start rebuilding the country
What’s done is done. Pragmatism and optimism are what we need now to get Britain back on the front foot, argues Chris Dyson