Culture – Page 7
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ReviewReview: RA Summer Exhibition architecture room
There are moments of richness in this year’s architecture room, but there is also a great deal of mediocrity, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewWe're in the middle of a housing crisis, but RIBA's saccharine show offers no serious solutions
The perennially moribund Royal Institute belatedly weighs in on Britain’s acute housing crisis with a let-them-eat-cake exhibition of sickly home sweet homes, says Phil Pawlett Jackson
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ReviewBook Club review: Concrete Concept
Simon Carne hopes this book will reach the unconverted, but warns of the perils of fetishising concrete without understanding its pitfalls
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ReviewPeter Aldington reminds us that we need slow architecture
Good architecture takes the kind of time that’s in short supply these days, says Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewBook Club review: Deployable Structures
From Buckminster Fuller to Adam Kalkin, these important and intriguing structures deserve a more heavyweight assessment than this pocket guide can deliver, says Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club review: Modernist Estates
Balazs Endrodi finds this richly illustrated hardback a pleasure to look at but a little disappointing to read
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ReviewBook Club review: Soundings from the Estuary
Paul Lincoln reviews a meditative essay in words and pictures
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ReviewAfter Chernobyl: Moving a whole town
Book Club: Balazs Endrodi, who grew up in one of the Soviet Union’s ‘nuclear cities’, reviews a new guide to the nation’s last atomgrad
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ReviewBook Club review: An Igloo on the Moon
This children’s introduction to architecture will delight adults too, says Gem Barton
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OpinionBritain's urban literacy is a national scandal
Critic Jonathan Glancey laments the loss of city making skills
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ReviewHigh Rise and Hinterland: Modernism's morality plays
JG Ballard’s brutalising tower and Gillespie Kidd Coia’s abandoned seminary were both designed to usher in a better world. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks what went wrong
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ReviewReview: Who are you calling a maverick?
Simon Carne takes issue with a slippery definition but admits Owen Hopkins’ new book and exhibition at the Royal Academy kick-start a great debate on the nature of architectural radicalism
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ReviewBook Club Review: 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Simon Carne is left underwhelmed by this slab-like book-as-building-material
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ReviewReview: Creation from Catastrophe
What architecture ‘really is’ is at stake in a new exhibition at the RIBA comparing historic disaster responses with a new movement of community-led rebuilding approaches. Phil Pawlett Jackson questions the dichotomy
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ReviewBook Club review: The Changing Image of Affordable Housing
Richard Timmins reviews a worthwhile study of an alternative approach to developing affordable architecture
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ReviewBook Club review: Pevsner - the BBC years
Matthew Elsinor reviews a heavyweight appraisal of Pevsner as broadcaster
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ReviewBook Club review: Estate and Context
Simon Carne reviews two books which address the same question from very different angles
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ReviewBook Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
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ReviewReview: The World of Charles and Ray Eames
The Barbican’s visually stimulating show is full of surprises, finds Joanna Day
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OpinionHolding guilty buildings to account
Novelist Orhan Pamuk, creator of The Museum of Innocence, questions whether buildings are really so sinless. His conclusion is welcomed by Annabel Wharton whose new book accuses an art gallery of murder