All Review articles – Page 11
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Great Estates: how London’s landowners shape the city
Back-slapping and self worship from the developer sponsors overshadows the real value of this exhibition at the Building Centre
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Book Club Review: Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Personal observations and detailed research take this book beyond a simple collection of projects
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Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture & Design by Gavin Stamp
Gavin Stamp’s Apollo columns reveal his passions
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Book Club Review: China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing by Charles D. Musgrove
A rich and refined account of the ‘Nanjing Decade’ with chapters so thorough they could stand alone
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Why city planning needs the human perspective
Bird droppings and perfume bottles at a lively and provocative Urban Thresholds Conference
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Book Club Review: Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living by Avi Friedman
A good overview of environmental dwellings let down by a lack of consistency in the details
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Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s — 1980s
Part III in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1900 — 1930s
Part II in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1815 — 1900
This selection of drawings chronicles the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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Book Club Review: Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi
A promising handbook struggles to pitch itself at the right level
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New titles to review in December's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from the history of the British home to the way we’ll live next - the aerotropolis
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Book Club Review: Weather Architecture by Jonathan Hill
Hill’s arument may contain some incontinuities, but his passion for user-based design shines through
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Ian Nairn: Words in Place by Gillian Darley and David McKie
Thirty years after his death, a new study explores Ian Nairn’s life and work
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Book Club Review: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea by Inha Jung
An insightful study of Korea’s struggle to maintain tradition and consistency against the unstoppable force of modernisation
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New titles to review in November's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from interior design and sustainable homes to Louis Kahn and China’s contested capital
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Book Club Review: The View from the Train, by Patrick Keiller
Keiler’s essays have been published before, but this collection brings new clarity to his work
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Xmas Meier
Local residents obsess over Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in the suburbs of Rome
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Pop Art Design at the Barbican Art Gallery
Steve Rose discovers pop art’s deep and lasting influence on architecture
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo
Helmet-mounted cameras provide a vertiginous trip up Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao
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Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
“Gentrification is sold as trickle-down – but instead brings wholesale destruction and displacement of communities”