All Review articles – Page 12
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Architectural wrangles within the Oxbridge quadrangles
Essays in this latest journal explore the negotiation between architects’ obligations to modernity and the maintenance of tradition
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Joseph Rykwert RIBA Royal Gold Medal lecture
Architecture critic Joseph Rykwert pays tribute to the past winners we never saw
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Top 50 films for architects: The Passion of Joan of Arc
This silent classic may be an ordeal to watch, but it is beautiful in its obsessive concentration
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Fernand Pouillon: master of the modern middle class
The work of Fernand Pouillon is given fresh perspective in this English edition
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The Brits Who Built The Modern World
New TV series and RIBA exhibition chart the rise of British architecture’s ‘famous five’
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Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined at the Royal Academy
Impressive line-up provides a rich sensory experience at the RA’s new show
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Book Club review: The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
An attempt to chart the development of the British home falls flat
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Book Club review: Explore everything: Place-hacking the City by Bradley Garrett
Attempting to apply a heavy theoretical justification to urban place-hacking might be a bit of a stretch, but this book still manages to challenge conceptions about the limits of the city
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Book Club review: Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Eric J Cesal
Down Detour Road paints an accurate picture of the architecture profession
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New titles to review in January's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from architecture’s relation to modernity to Dutch post war era master, Hugh Maaskant
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Book Club Review: The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker
Despite the plethora of books already published on Kahn, this one manages to offer something new
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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