All Review articles – Page 16
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part I
The role of drawing in architecture: Historian Nicholas Olsberg and critic Niall Hobhouse look at the way architects have employed drawing to imagine realities far removed from their own
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ReviewPrefab: Palaces for the People
A new photography exhibition documents the UK’s threatened prefabs
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ReviewHenri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light
New York’s MOMA show places Henri Labrouste at the turning point between classical and modern thinking
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ReviewMore Book Club titles up for grabs!
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Pevsner’s biography and Norman Foster on art, to mimicry in contemporary China and a new edition of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster’s Junkspace/Running Room
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ReviewNew titles added to BD's Book Club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of six new titles, from Robert Adam’s Grand Tour and Imperial Gothic to Globalisation and urban masterplanning
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ReviewPevsner’s architectural glossary app
The new Architectural Glossary app wears its learning lightly
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ReviewBook Club Review: Dwelling with Architecture, by Roderick Kemsley and Christopher Platt
A carefully considered book that leaves the reader hungry for more detail
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: My Childhood My Ain Folk My Way Home
An uncompromising trilogy about childhood laid bare
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ReviewBook Club Review: Edward Durell Stone, by Mary Anne Hunting
A preamble through early work of post-modernism’s precursor
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ReviewBook Club Review: Zaha Hadid and Suprematism, by Galerie Gmurzynska
A beautifully illustrated portrait of Zaha Hadid’s affiliation with the Russian Supremacist art movement
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ReviewIn Search of Classical Greece at the British Museum
A chance meeting brings halcyon views of Greece, caught against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, to the public eye
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ReviewBook Club Review: Sharp words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp, by Dennis Sharp and Paul Finch
A welcome addition to the Architectural Association catalogue
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ReviewBook Club Review: Birmingham Town Hall, by Anthony Peers and Frank Salmon
A passionate account of the building’s construction and history
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ReviewPost-war Britain starts here
As the ICA marks the 60th anniversary of Parallel of Life Art, we reflect on the impact of a seminal exhibition
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ReviewTop 50 films for architects: The Mill and the Cross
A lesson in turning two dimensions into three
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ReviewBook Club Review: Long Island Modernism 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski
An important historical account of the growth of modernism on Long Island
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ReviewWilliam Burges and the High Victorian Dream by J Mordaunt Crook
William Burges was a romantic and a dreamer, and his richly detailed work well deserves this weighty volume
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ReviewItalian duo redefine radical at the AA
Dogma’s AA Gallery show is conceptually rich yet visually seductive
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art by Fiona MacCarthy
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art Fiona MacCarthy Royal College of Art 288 pp, £40.00 At its foundation in 1837, the Government School of Design was established at Somerset House with just 17 students to form the world’s first publicly funded school of ...