All Review articles – Page 106
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ReviewModel behaviour
A new book on architectural models provides a rich source of fascinating images for a craft that is gaining renewed importance
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ReviewIn search of perfection
A utopian novel about a crazed architect provides the inspiration for an exhibition at Chelsea College of Art.
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ReviewThe unsung hero of architecture
Architect turned composer Iannis Xenakis is the da Vinci of modern music
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ReviewSkinheads and me
In the summer of 1972, on the last day of school, the sound of Alice Cooper’s Schools Out seemed to follow me as I walked to the bus-stop on my journey home to freedom. What I was not aware of at the time was that this summer was about to ...
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ReviewGray areas remain unexplored
A retrospective on pioneering modernist Eileen Gray needs more explanation, says Catherine Croft
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Rebuilding the urban myth
Is Chicago constrained by its own history? BD reviews a book that challenges the city’s history
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ReviewIn the hot seat
This coated foam furniture suitable for both indoor and outdoor use is designed by Feek, one of 450 exhibitors at next week’s 100% Design 2005 extravaganza.
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ReviewChoral music and me
As a choral singer, one experience that remains with me strongly was singing the Verdi Requiem with the Cambridge University Music Society under David Willcocks.
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ReviewIn the mood to take off again
A new book on Eero Saarinen is right to applaud his newly fashionable status
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ReviewSeamus Heaney and me
Sometime in the 1980s the poet Seamus Heaney addressed Irish architects (and students like me) on the poetics of architecture — it was liberating advice.
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ReviewShacks in bleak landscapes
With just two days to go before the artworks for Alex Hartley’s latest exhibition need to be sent off for framing, the artist is holed up in his studio, a workshop-like space on a hidden and unexpectedly rural lane in residential north London.
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Engineer of his own image
An intriguing book on Brunel may be too eager to believe the man’s own hype
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ReviewJohnny Cash and me
I am a Johnny Cash fan. It is hard to put my finger on what specific affect he has had on my architecture — there are no ranches or haciendas in the portfolio as yet — but I rarely work without him. I listen to him a lot, an awful ...
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ReviewTour de France and me
For me, the bicycle still holds the same promise of liberation that was at the core of the modernist dream. It’s a relationship that’s picked up on in the music of bands such as Kraftwerk and Campag Velocet. The whole pageant associated with the Tour de France feels like a ...
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Charting Londons changing canvass
Sonia Soltani on a show looking at land development’s effect on art