All Review articles – Page 114
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Thinking inside the box
At 53, architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is about to enter his prime, says Jonathan Woolf
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ReviewThe cars the star
That great design icon the E-type Jaguar is the subject of a exhibition at London’s Design Museum, from Sunday. Unveiled to the public at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show, the sexiest of sports cars soon came to symbolise the spirit of the sixties and was beloved of Beatle George Harrison ...
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ReviewBarb magnet
Saul Metzstein is pleased to see a book on the Barbican that celebrates the much-derided estate
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ReviewBreaking the mould
The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro celebrates his 80th birthday this year, an occasion marked this month by the publication of two books that chart his development.Anthony Caro: A Life in Sculpture by Julius Bryant provides an introduction to his work, with archive photographs and illustrations of his best-known works. It ...
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Croatian dreams
The sculptures by Croatian artist Dusan Dzamonja have been compared to the work of contemporary architects such as Gehry, Libeskind and Hadid, though his monumental structures also reward him with a place alongside idealists such as Archigram.An exhibition of his work opened at the RIBA in London this week, timed ...
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Cook enhances the broth
The Bartlett show reflects the style of its departing chairman, writes Kester Rattenbury
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ReviewThe light of youth
Dan Ward’s Arc Light (left) and Ulrika Jarl’s bone china wall light (below) are two of the 4,000 works by student designers being showcased at the Business Design Centre in London’s Islington, this week and next. The New Designers show, in its 19th year, brings together new talent working across ...
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Seen in fleeting glimpses
Gareth Gardner finds familiarity in an exploration of how buildings are perceived
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ReviewA song at twilight
Can a film and a salon inform the debate on rehabilitating derelict buildings? asks Peter Wilson
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ReviewA poetic and humanist philosophy
Helen Mallinson acclaims the new tour de force by the renowned architectural theorist Dalibor Vesely
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ReviewBasket cases
They trained as stonemasons, but German artists Wolfgang Winter and Bertold Hörbelt now use recycled bottle crates as the building blocks for their translucent pavilion installations. Their first major UK show opens tomorrow at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Here they have built two houses that bisect the gallery window and can ...
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ReviewShanty town seating
Fernando and Humberto Campana are the hot ticket in Brazilian design. Neither brother intended to be a furniture designer — Humberto studied law and Fernando architecture — but they started making furniture out of found objects from shanty towns in their native Sao Paulo; and now, 20 years later, they ...
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ReviewHeavenly legacy
Catherine Croft enjoys a celebration of Henry Hitchcock and John Summerson — two maverick and still hugely influential architectural historians
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ReviewModern architecture is dead
Thomas Muirhead reviews a collection of theoretical essays by Peter Eisenman
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Shaping a new sense of identity
Karen Glaser is impressed by a new book of academic essays on Zionist ideology and the built form
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ReviewDrawing no conclusions
Nice idea, shame about the execution. Catherine Croft found the RA's Summer show rather confusing
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Floor Plan Manual: Housing
Floor Plan Manual: Housingedited by Friederike SchneiderBirkhauserEuro 82.24 (£55).