All From the Archive articles – Page 9
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FeaturesCampaign for a free-range education
Richard Murphy compared students to battery hens at the 1980 Schools of Architecture festival.
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FeaturesBorn to be wild
BD talked to Tony Cloughley in 1975, a week after this portrait appeared in Cosmopolitan
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FeaturesPaper prodigy
Rem Koolhaas gave the audience a glimpse of things to come at an ICA debate with Massimo Scolari in 1983
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FeaturesAnd on the fifth day...
In 1983, a group of Northampton Jehovah’s Witnesses built their own meeting hall in less than 100 hours
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FeaturesCould things only get better?
More than 13 years on, south London’s Aylesbury Estate is finally being demolished - but what of the promises it witnessed at the dawn of the Blair years?
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FeaturesFrom the archive: ArtNet special
It may have only had a five-year life-span, but Peter Cook’s ArtNet, founded and closed in the seventies, had considerable impact on London’s architectural community.
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FeaturesCooking up a storm at the ArtNet rally
This poster for Peter Cook’s Architecture Rally drew a lot of traffic to BD’s letters page in 1978
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FeaturesPlacing women
Date 1978Location ArtNet, LondonHelen Chadwick’s exhibition, In the Kitchen, took the form of a series of full-scale mock-ups of domestic appliances – a stove, a sink with Ascot, a washing machine and a fridge – each of which was rendered in shiny soft vinyl and incorporated a female volunteer.The entombed ...
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FeaturesA banquet fit for a historic towns crit
Adrian Gale, Peter Cook and Richard MacCormac were among those dining out in Devon in 1988.
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FeaturesPerchance to dream of wharf wonders
Aldo Rossi’s unrealised buildings for Canary Wharf looked to Shakespeare’s Verona and Venice for inspiration
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FeaturesI feel a sneeze coming...
Defeat was on the cards for Victoria Maitland when her world record was smashed by this master stacker 73 years later
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FeaturesVenturing inside the belly of the beast
David Foster’s dinosaur proposal won a 1975 competition for an extension to the Natural History Museum
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FeaturesPortrait of the architect as a young man
This picture of John Tuomey accompanied a London lecture - and came just ahead of his great professional partnership with Sheila O’Donnell
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FeaturesBehnisch lines up his Olympic team
The architect is shown with the people who worked on Munich’s record-breaking 1972 stadium
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FeaturesStill allies after more than 20 years
This photograph accompanied a profile of Allies & Morrison on the eve of their lecture in the RIBA’s Young Lions series.
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FeaturesPiers Gough’s father caught knapping
BD visited an exhibition of sculptor Peter Gough’s work.
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FeaturesSartorial stature
Architect and critic Stephen Gardiner’s strong opinions were matched by his distinctive wardrobe.
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FeaturesThe spy whom RIBA loved
We remember the rise and fall of former honorary RIBA fellow Anthony Blunt.