Culture – Page 8
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Opinion
Holding 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
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Review
Review: Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the late US sculptor’s work is full of shadows, literal and figurative, finds MJ Wells
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Review
New titles to review in BD's autumn architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of 10 new titles
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Features
Six of the best twentieth-century houses
Elain Harwood picks some favourites from a new book for the Twentieth Century Society which she edited with Alan Powers – Houses: Regional practice and local character
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Review
Review: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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Review: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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Review
Book Club review: The Architecture School Survival Guide
Gem Barton reviews an essential read for architecture freshers
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Book Club review: Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
John Pillar reviews a collection of essays that challenges architects to work for and learn from the creativity of the global south
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Review
Contemplating the bother of suburbia
Generations of planners and architects have tried to ‘solve’ the suburbs. They’d have been better off enlisting the locals, the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival heard
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Review
Review: Palladian Design – the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
The second big Palladio exhibition in less than a decade includes some great contemporary projects, but there are a few surprising omissions, finds MJ Wells
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Opinion
Architecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future
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Review
Book review: The Barbican - Architecture and Light
Ike Ijeh enjoys a portrait of the Barbican as spirited as Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s masterpiece itself
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Book Club review: Enric Miralles from Left to Right
This intimate portrait reveals an architect grounded in reality, says Daniel Parker
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Review
New titles to review in BD's summer architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of nine new titles
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Review
Book Club review: Forty Ways to Think about Architecture
Gem Barton finds much to chew over in this timeless book
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Book Club review: The Evolution of Shell Lace Structure
This readable book explores one practice’s ingenious approach to efficient structural design, says Matthew Shanley
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Book Club review: Architectural Modelmaking
This generously illustrated guide shows models remain an important part of the design process, says Richard Timmins
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Book Club review: Michael Wilford - Selected Buildings and Projects
This detailed monograph focuses a critical eye on the breezy renders produced for so many projects, writes Benjamin Machin
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Book Club review: Improbable Libraries
A new global survey of libraries is a delightful reminder of the diversity of the building type, says Stephen Smith
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Book Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain