All Review articles – Page 25
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ReviewBuilding the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
The Royal Academy’s display of Soviet art and design provides a dim reflection of revolutions past
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 31 to November 6
This week’s cultural guide brings out the uncanny with a foray into the world of François Dallegret’s bubble housing and leaves us with the work of Nancy Cogswell and Laurence Noga’s preoccupation with the in-between
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ReviewPhaidon’s The Art Museum
The publisher’s propensity towards the large-format art book has reached its natural climax with this global survey of artworks
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ReviewNew account of museums’ changing role
This weighty tome contains 170 examples of museums that have become tourist attraction
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ReviewDouble or Nothing: Architectural Association
Two projects for Albania’s capital city showcase the talent of Belgian practice 51N4E
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 24- 30
We’re all ears this week, with talks left right and centre. Top tips include a discussion on the interplay between wellbeing, the built environment and landscape design and also another round of postmodernist debate at the V&A
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ReviewCinemas in Britain: A History of Cinema Architecture
Gray’s book documents the architecture of British cinema from the first dioramas of the mid-19th century
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ReviewAdjaye Africa Architecture
David Adjaye has undertaken a monumental project to document every African capital city.
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 17-23
This week’s cultural guide takes us to the dizzying heights of Deptford to explore the mixed-use spaces of this heterogeneous community, before brushing up on Radical Post-Modernism at the Royal Academy with Sean Griffiths of FAT, Edouard François and Charles Jencks.
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ReviewDubuffet as Architect
A new book shows how Jean Dubuffet’s art developed into full-scale architecture
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 10-16
This week’s guide is packed with cultural gems- from a cinematic experience, co-written by Rem Koolhaas’ to an exploration of Folie à Deux, French for the ‘madness of two’
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ReviewGiles 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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ReviewOMA 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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ReviewSlogans & battlecries: 'A plane of tarmac with hot spots of urban intensity'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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ReviewA tale of two wits
Koolhaas and Jencks agreed to disagree in their public debate on postmodernism
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewWork on paper, part III: Architectural anxiety
This essay is the third in a series on the drawing as itself the product of architectural practice