All Review articles – Page 26
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ReviewSigns 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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ReviewThe 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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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewSlogans & battle cries: 'A building is to a city as a brick is to a wall'
Architectural aphorisms explored
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ReviewThe Art-Architecture Complex
The mutual influence of art and architecture has had little benefit to either
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ReviewBD'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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ReviewWilliam Mann: Walking the Lea Valley
An Open House guide launch revealed the glorious fragility of the Lea Valley
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewGhost 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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ReviewMaking 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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ReviewEndlessly 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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ReviewAround 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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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewNikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Susie Harries’ biography sheds light on the seminal architectural writer’s troubled depths
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewSlogans & Battle cries: 'We can't put it together, it is together'
Architectural aphorisms explored by Paul Shepheard
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ReviewAll Over the Map by Michael Sorkin
Despite its focus on US tragedies, Michael Sorkin’s new book is very entertaining
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewThe Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
A new Capability Brown biography is too discursive for Robert Harbison
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ReviewSlogans & Battle cries: ‘Form follows function’
Architectural aphorisms explored by Paul Shepheard