All Review articles – Page 12
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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”
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50 films for Architects: La Promesse
Hard-hitting film set in a dreary nowhere city is a tale of cruelty and redemption
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Alison Smithson: portrait of a pioneer
Rachel Cooke’s new book, Her Brilliant Career, tells the stories of 10 women who led inspirational lives in the 1950s. Here we present an extract from the chapter devoted to Alison Smithson
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How To Like Everything: A Utopia by Paul Shepheard
Sam Jacob enjoys a book that tears up the familiar maps of architectural theory
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife
Housekeeper Guadalupe gives a sharp assessment of Rem Koolhaas’ Maison Bordeaux
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Frieze Art Fair: thinking inside the white box
Art galleries provide architects with a repetitive but challenging exercise in minimalism
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Inside Piano
The fifth book in the Living Architectures series which looks at the experiential qualities of three Renzo Piano buildings
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New titles to review in October's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from Korea and Patrick Keiller to weather architecture and parametric design
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Book Club Review: Kabbalah in Art and Architecture, by Alexander Gorlin
A visual story of the Kabbalah’s influence on contemporary architecture and visual culture
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Tomorrow — Elmgreen & Dragset at the V&A
Ellis Woodman enjoys an immersive installation on the life of an imaginary architect
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Book Club Review: Concrete: Photography and Architecture, Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig, Urs Stahel
300 photographs with insightful essays demonstrate the deep bond between architecture and photography
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Top 50 films for architects: Brazil
This exuberant dystopian fantasy is a tale of universal submissiveness
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Sir Albert Richardson: a life goes under the hammer
As his collection is sold by Christie’s, ‘The Professor’ of British architecture deserves to be better remembered
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Lisbon Architecture Triennale: Close, but not close enough
Close, Closer’s mix of spectacle and social radicalism does not entirely convince
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Book Club Review: Sex and Buildings, Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams introduces a wide ensemble of psychologists, quacks, hippies and architects all in search of libidinal paradise
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Book Club review: Memories of Cities: Trips and Manifestoes
An eclectic and personally driven homage to the built environment
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Book Club Review: Brick by Brick, David C. Robertson with Bill Breen
A must-read for Lego enthusiasts that boasts valuable lessons for business development
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Making Unbuilt Britain
Assistant producer Hannah Farrell reveals some of the challenges involved in putting together BBC Four’s new three-part series, Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
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Book Club Review: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Jean-Louis Cohen
A collection of essays accompanying MoMA’s New York exhibition finds Le Corbusier’s work still fascinating