All Review articles – Page 113
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ReviewModernism in reverse
A Mendelsohn retrospective leaves John Lee disappointed by his descent into conservatism
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ReviewModern life is rubbish
Despite his reactionary attitude, ‘progressive classicist’ Raymond Erith produced a series of delightful buildings, which are celebrated in a new exhibition.
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Much truck with art
Part art, part architecture, part lorry, Dwelling X is the latest work by artist Lucy Orta. Conceived as a habitable public sculpture in the form of a mobile social space, the structure will park up in Nottingham’s Market Square from October 15 to 21. It is a result of Orta’s ...
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ReviewAnyone for Venice?
Richard Murphy is enchanted by a new television series on this historic Italian city
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ReviewMessing about on the river
Boating at the London Eye, sunbathers in front of the Louvre in Paris, deep-sea diving at the Tower of London — just some of the romantic visions that make up David Mach’s Utopian world.
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Radar
Keith HillBooks I always have a book on the go, but holidays are the great opportunity for a reading splurge. This summer I read Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, Wolfgang Koeppen’s The Hothouse, Nicholas Schoon’s The Chosen City and (anorak that I am) the Barker Report! My current book is ...
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ReviewFound in translation
Kester Rattenbury is enthralled by Tacita Dean’s three films exploring a Portuguese villa
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ReviewDisplay of power
Nigel Green’s series of photographs, Physical Sites, is the result of unprecedented access to Dungeness B nuclear power station.
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ReviewRadar: Tim Ronalds
Books - The longest this year was War and Peace, which I read, five pages at a time, in the middle of the night: it began as a cure for insomnia and then became addictive.
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ReviewHighland highlights
A showcase of the best of Scottish architecture is running at the Lighthouse architecture centre in Glasgow.
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ReviewThe next dimension
Adjaye’s Shoreditch installation scores as both art and architectural preview
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ReviewToo many cooks
The rampant diversity in UK architecture on display at the Biennale is bad news, not cause for celebration
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ReviewEver decreasing circles
Are Libeskind’s architectural powers deserting him? John McKean examines the evidence
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ReviewSnappy Dresser
Modernist pioneer or Victorian master? Alan Powers lifts the lid on Christopher Dresser
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ReviewNobsons choice
Eight years ago, artist Paul Noble set about creating a fictional city, Nobson Newtown. The result is a series of more than 30 drawings that feature an invented font based on the forms of modernist architecture.
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Arresting development
Wiel Arets, a leading figure in Dutch architecture, has been gaining international attention for his spare industrial forms and theoretical writings. A monograph, published this month, explores his preoccupation with transparency and deceptively simple forms. Translucent glass, concrete and wood dominates his work, which has been compared to that of ...
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ReviewPlant and perch
This week sees the opening of the exhibition of shortlisted entries for the 2004 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, which this year focuses on furniture. The shortlist includes the London-based El Ultimo Grito: Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, who are exhibiting Land Ho! (pictured), a combined planter and seat, made from ...
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ReviewOutfoxing new urbanism
Can a fantasy fox hunt help us to value overlooked spaces? Ellis Woodman finds out
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ReviewDaddy cool
My Architect, a filmic exploration of the life of Louis Kahn (right) through the eyes of his illegitimate son, goes on general release next Friday.The insightful documentary is the result of a five-year quest by Nathaniel Kahn to get closer to the father he barely knew. The film-maker was one ...