All Review articles – Page 25
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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
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Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Susie Harries’ biography sheds light on the seminal architectural writer’s troubled depths
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Cultural Guide: September 5- 11
This week we investigate the power of making with the V&A before immersing ourselves in the cultural delights of Birmingham
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Slogans & Battle cries: 'We can't put it together, it is together'
Architectural aphorisms explored by Paul Shepheard
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All Over the Map by Michael Sorkin
Despite its focus on US tragedies, Michael Sorkin’s new book is very entertaining
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Cultural Guide: August 29- September 4
This week’s cultural guide encounters a sobering reminder of Chernobyl, before exploring the use of ’ornament’ in contemporary art and architecture at the ICA
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The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
A new Capability Brown biography is too discursive for Robert Harbison
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Slogans & Battle cries: ‘Form follows function’
Architectural aphorisms explored by Paul Shepheard
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Architecture in Uniform: Designing & Building for the Second World War
The story of architects in the second world war has some surprising twists
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Cultural Guide: August 22- 28
This week’s cultural guide proves the pen is mightier than the sword with a number of forays into hand-rendered architectural drawings
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Ai Weiwei’s Blog, Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
Ai Weiwei’s compelling blog shows the tensions between the internet and a totalitarian state.
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Cultural Guide: August 15- 21
This week’s cultural guide travels to Edinburgh to listen to Malcolm Fraser’s insight into the future of this literary landscape, amongst other treats.
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Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern
An impressive Design Museum retrospective shows how Kenneth Grange designed all the things you never really thought about.
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Cultural guide: August 8- 14
This week’s cultural highlights include taking a guess at the future of the architect in the crypt of Sir John Soane’s One Marylebone
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The Secret Life of Buildings
Tom Dyckhoff explores how design can have measureable effects on our lives in Channel 4’s new series.
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Mild dissatisfaction against the machine
A new architectural fanzine lacks the punk spirit of its defiant forerunners, writes Sean Griffiths
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Thomas Struth at the Whitechapel Gallery
A retrospective of the photographer’s work reveals the multivalency of his art.
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Cultural Guide: July 25- 31
This week’s cultural guide visits the moon- early soviet style before learning about the ’most wondrous matter on earth’ at the Barbican