All Review articles – Page 24
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Giles Gilbert Scott: His Son’s View
The text of a 1962 lecture by Richard Gilbert Scott sheds light on a prolific family
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OMA show compels, but where do they get their ideas from?
At this week’s press opening for Progress, the largest UK exhibition to date of OMA’s work, Rem Koolhaas recalled his first reaction to the Barbican Gallery’s proposal to mount a retrospective: “The word retrospective made me very nervous.”
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Slogans & battlecries: 'A plane of tarmac with hot spots of urban intensity'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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A tale of two wits
Koolhaas and Jencks agreed to disagree in their public debate on postmodernism
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Cultural Guide: October 3- 9
This week’s cultural guide opens with a lecture from Zaha Hadid, fresh from Stirling prize victory, before catching up with OMA at the Barbican
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Work on paper, part III: Architectural anxiety
This essay is the third in a series on the drawing as itself the product of architectural practice
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Signs of the times - Postmodernism: style and subversion 1970-1990
Like its subject matter, the V&A’s new postmodernism show keeps everything on the surface
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The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Brave New World
A 60th anniversary documentary brings a timely reminder of an age of optimism and opportunity.
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Cultural Guide: September 26 to October 2
This week’s cultural guide catches up with Denise Scott Brown at the V& A amongst other cultural highlights
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Slogans & battle cries: 'A building is to a city as a brick is to a wall'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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The Art-Architecture Complex
The mutual influence of art and architecture has had little benefit to either
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BD's guide to the London Design Festival
London’s annual fete of fancy furniture, playful products and intriguing installations is back – and bigger than ever before.
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William Mann: Walking the Lea Valley
An Open House guide launch revealed the glorious fragility of the Lea Valley
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Cultural Guide: September 19-25
This week’s cultural guide turns its attention to new retrospectives on two of the art world’s heavyweights; Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley, amongst other cultural titbits
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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project
Iain Sinclair’s new book is a sprawling global trawl of the built environment
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Making the modern office work harder
A new compendium of workplace design provides a stimulating view of the changing ways in which we organise our work interiors.
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Endlessly waiting for the lift
This glossy coffee-table book contains good quality images of 84 hotel lobbies and lounges from around the world but conveys little of their experiential quality
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Around and About Stock Orchard Street, edited by Sarah Wigglesworth
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House war stories impress far more than her feminist theory
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Cultural Guide: September 12- 18
These cultural boots were made for walking- which is just as well with the opening of Open House London and a spot of night hiking around the capital