Culture – Page 8
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ReviewNew 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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FeaturesSix 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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ReviewReview: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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ReviewReview: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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ReviewBook Club review: The Architecture School Survival Guide
Gem Barton reviews an essential read for architecture freshers
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ReviewBook 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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ReviewContemplating 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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ReviewReview: 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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OpinionArchitecture 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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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook Club review: Enric Miralles from Left to Right
This intimate portrait reveals an architect grounded in reality, says Daniel Parker
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ReviewNew 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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ReviewBook Club review: Forty Ways to Think about Architecture
Gem Barton finds much to chew over in this timeless book
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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
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ReviewWhen architects only tell one side of the story
Are architects complicit in creating narratives that ultimately serve to line developers’ pockets? Joanna Day was at an Architecture Foundation debate on the subject
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ReviewReview: Decision by Carsten Höller at the Hayward Gallery
There’s a lot to enjoy but this disorientating retrospective isn’t quite what it promises, finds Harriet Partridge