All Protection of function articles – Page 3

  • SANAA's Serpentine pavilion
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: July 6 to July 12

    2009-07-06T09:00:00Z

    A chance to see the controversial artists, Gilbert and George’s new work at the White Cube, or arm yourself with the tools to construct a makeshift emergency shelter out of timber. For those who don’t already have Chelsea Barracks fatigue, there is the chance to debate the saga further at ...

  • Jeff Koons 'Popeye 2003' (Oil on canvas)
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: June 29 to July 5

    2009-06-29T09:00:00Z

    The much anticipated retrospective on Jan Kaplický opens this week at the Design Museum as well as a chance to enjoy Zaha Hadid’s transformed Manchester Art Gallery, with a Bach accompaniment. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy then how about testing your mettle against Popeye with Jeff Koon’s latest exhibition, ...

  • Elmgreen & Dragset, Prada Marfa, 2005
    Review

    BD's guide to your cultural week: June 22 to June 28

    2009-06-22T09:00:00Z

    Join in the discussion on new vernacular for London or take a secret glimpse below the streets of the Capital at the Ministry of Defence emergency environment. Or if you prefer to stay above ground, survey some of the biggest names in British sculpture at the Whitechapel gallery.

  • Manufactured Sites 2008 Courtesy Estudio Teddy Cruz.
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: June 15 to 21

    2009-06-15T09:00:00Z

    This week’s cultural highlights include Charles Jencks on the cosmos, a chance to pull up a pew with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret and see their furniture designs from the 50s, plus a close encounter with this year’s entries to the BP Portrait award.

  • Susan Haire: What is seen and what is hidden 2009
    Review

    BD’s Guide to your cultural week: June 8 to June 14

    2009-06-08T09:00:00Z

    In this week’s cultural guide artists take a destructive paintbrush to other artists' work, debates on the future of education, architectural collaboration and the Tate Modern opens its summer show on futurism.

  • Giuseppe Penone (reverse your eyes) 1970. photo by Paolo Mussat Sartor
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: June 1 to June 7

    2009-06-01T09:00:00Z

    Discover the creative force that has put London at the forefront of design for centuries at the design museum this month, or pop into the Nunnery Gallery to find out what artists have to say about the Olympics.

  • Iliana Boyiakis, ‘Untitled’, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
    News

    BD’s guide to your cultural week May 26 to May 31

    2009-05-26T08:30:00Z

    It’s RCA show time again and even the Lighthouse is tuning into the latest craze for Pecha Kutcha, this time on the subject of Glasgow.Or if that doesn’t get the cultural juices flowing then why not join the most controversial of the YBAs, Tracy Emin, for an opening night tipple ...

  • Nina Murdoch: In the Dark
    Review

    BD’s Guide to your cultural week: May 18 to May 24

    2009-05-18T09:00:00Z

    Learn first hand what life was like working with Le Corbusier, stretch those legs and explore the post-war housing of the Camden under architect Sydney Cook, or take a trip across the pond to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, in BD’s guide to your cultural week.

  • Matt Calderwood: Untitled
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: May 11 to May 17

    2009-05-11T09:00:00Z

    Don your scrubs for a Marylebone medical walk or find artistic uses for that mountain of carrier bags under the sink. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy then why not tune into some interesting concepts on the modern interior, or discover what inspired Christopher Wren.

  • An exhibit from London Yields at the Building Centre
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: May 5 to May 10

    2009-05-03T09:00:00Z

    Take in some sea air in Brighton, or listen to the finer points of critcs’ reactions to Bawden, Nash, Ravilious. Or if you’re just finding the daily grind too tiring, pick up tips on how to tend a vegetable patch on your own roof- all amongst some of the suggestions ...

  • Isa Genzken: Oil 2007
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: April 27 to May 3

    2009-04-27T09:47:00Z

    Uncover Le Corbusier’s hidden side and his influence on the Barbican estate, meet the pioneer of installation art in America and take a trip to the ends of the Earth without leaving the capital.

  • Matthew Houlding, NKB Bearings, Mixed media, 60 x 60 x 35cm, Image courtesy of Ceri Hand Gallery
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: April 20 to April 26

    2009-04-20T09:00:00Z

    Matthew Houlding’s exhibiton of impossible architecture opens in Liverpool, the world’s best furniture designers gather in Milan, and Japanese gardens come to the Barbican.

  • News

    Architects: give us protection of function

    2009-04-17T01:00:00Z

    An overwhelming majority of architects are in favour of a change in the law to protect architects’ function as well as title, new research by BD suggests

  • Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: April 14 to April 19

    2009-04-14T10:05:00Z

    This week, more Le Corbusier on film, and a new building project from Bristol’s Arnolfini.

  • Alison & Peter Smithson are part of the 'Architects who made London' lecture series at the Barbican this week
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: April 6 to April 12

    2009-04-06T09:00:00Z

    This week, works by Caruso St John go on show in Zurich, a star-studded Barbican debate asks if good design can change the world, and an exhibition of photos of interiors from high-rise Ethelburga Tower, Battersea, opens in London.

  • A baroque state bed
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: March 30 to April 3

    2009-03-30T09:14:00Z

    This week's cultural highlights include Pedro Costa's acclaimed 'Colossal Youth' at the Barbican and the opening of the V&A's new blockbuster summer show,' Baroque 1620 - 1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence'.

  • William Simpson, design for the internal decoration of The Great Exhibition Building of 1851 by Owen Jones, 1850.
    Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: March 23 to 29

    2009-03-23T09:00:00Z

    Talking heads this week include Stephen Bayley and Marc Auge at the ICA; Glen Howells at Manchester’s CUBE Gallery; and all-star cast Joseph Rykwert, Peter Rees, Ricky Burdett and Paul Finch at the Barbican.

  • Review

    BD's guide to your cultural week: March 16 to 22

    2009-03-16T09:19:00Z

    This week, debate urban renaissance, explore John Lautner's architecture or take on the planners at table football.

  • Opinion

    All in the name

    2009-03-13T00:00:00Z

    I do not support protection of function. Even in Europe, this does not apply to small projects

  • Review

    BD’s guide to your cultural week: March 9 to 15

    2009-03-09T09:42:00Z

    Choose between lectures on Lasdun, Niemeyer, experimental architecture and more; or catch the film of the architect of Birmingham’s controversial Central Library, John Madin.