All Review articles – Page 112
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ReviewLose yourself
Inspired by the uniform, low-cost architecture of the seventies and eighties in her native Poland, artist Monika Sosnowska has reconfigured the Serpentine Gallery to form a labyrinthine installation that challenges the visitors’ sense of orientation.
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ReviewForm follows fantasy
David Cunningham enjoys a book exploring the link between surrealism and architecture
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ReviewConcrete views of Japanese life
Pamela Buxton talks to Phoebe Dakin about her vision of Japan
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It’s a wrap!
Think architecture, eat architecture, play architecture? We round up some architecturally inspired Christmas presents
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New on the bookshelf
Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time, by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Belknap Harvard, HB, 288pp, £19.Venturi and Scott Brown look back over their influential ideas and buildings in a personal retrospective spanning nearly 40 years.On Tour with Renzo Piano by Renzo Piano. Phaidon, HB, ...
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ReviewRadar: Anna Liu
Books Adolescence: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Pre-architecture school: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Post-architecture school: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche. More recently, Emergence by Steven Johnson.Music Rapture by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His voice transcends all boundaries of gender, language, and religion. As an artist he is ...
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Radar: Matthew Priestman
Books I’m reading After the Empire:The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd and The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria. I find fiction problematic, but have read Under the Skin by Michel Faber, a mix of horror and poetry. I’ve got teenagers, ...
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ReviewWaxing Brazilian
Thomas Muirhead enjoys a book on the beauty and tragedy of Brazil’s architecture
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ReviewAlteration images
Robert Adam’s acclaimed designs for the sculpture galleries at Newby Hall, the Yorkshire country house, are celebrated in a new exhibition of architectural drawings at Leeds City Art Gallery.
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ReviewFarrells follies
The Climatron, a rather groovy hi-tech holiday island connected to the base of the Blackpool Tower by railway, was Terry Farrell’s final-year design thesis at Newcastle University back in 1961. This Buckminster Fuller-inspired project is one of 25 designs from Farrell’s early life and career discussed in his new book, ...
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ReviewComfort and joy
French firm Lacaton & Vassal’s AA show and recent inclusion on the Architecture Foundation HQ shortlist mark its emergence on a wider stage, writes Pamela Buxton
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ReviewLet’s play housey-housey
Pamela Buxton enjoys a quirky exhibition of housing designs by Pierre d’Avoine Architects
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ReviewPlastic fantastic
“At £75 we think it’s a bargain,” says Lucas Dietrich, commissioning editor of the zanily packaged “exploded monograph” on Zaha Hadid, published next week.
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ReviewA wealth of Nouveau riches
A European touring exhibition seeks to revive interest in this style
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New on the bookshelf
The Architecture of The British Library at St Pancras, by Roger Stonehouse and Gerhard Stromberg. Spon Press, £65.Definitive account of Colin St John Wilson’s tour de force that was 35 years in the design and construction. Contributors include Richard MacCormac and former British Library chief executive Brian Lang.Treehouses of the ...
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ReviewFlights of fancy
Perched on five skyscrapers above Liverpool Street station, this cruciform airport in the sky proposed by Lindy and Lewis in 1945 was just one of a series of post-war unfulfilled visions for a city-centre airport in London.
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ReviewMaking fun of buildings
Is Cedric Price’s Fun Palace a suitable model for contemporary cultural needs? We report on a Berlin conference inspired by this visionary concept
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ReviewWizard of Oz
After all the controversy surrounding the choice of flower arranger Constance Spry as a suitable exhibition subject, the Design Museum is on far safer ground with its new show on Marc Newson, which opens tomorrow (October 23).