All Review articles – Page 27
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John Madin, by Alan Clawley
John Madin’s work may be unfashionable now, but his desire to change the face of his home city was in tune with the age, says Helen Thomas
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Cultural Guide: June 6 to June 12
This week’s cultural guide pays a visit to shores of Scotland to join Zaha Hadid on the eve of the opening of her Riverside Museum in Glasgow, amongst other cultural treats.
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Curators embrace the riot of designs at the RA's summer show
Highlights of this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition include an embroidered bedspread and a building disguised as a teapot.
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Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi at ETH, Zürich
The two heavyweights talked to a Swiss audience about the parallels and dislocations of their careers, says Philip Shelley
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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli
This new book articulates the current conflicts of our theoretical landscape, says Aram Mooradian
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Cultural Guide: May 31 to June 5
We’re lecture heavy on this week’s cultural guide, so tune those ears into Rick Mather’s thoughts on his Ashmolean museum extension and also whether the future of our cities lies in the grip of the railways
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Sir John Soane’s Museum drawings online
Sir John Soane’s drawings collection, one of the greatest in the world, has been made available online
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Chelsea Flower Show
Horticultural design seems to lag behind somewhat in the conceptual stakes, so it was good to see those from the architecture profession getting in on the act at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show
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Blueprint for the cities we want to live in
Peter Calthorpe shows how ecological design can bring about neighbourhoods that are diverse, interesting and keep us healthy, while Carl Stein looks at how we can design a sustainable future with a modernist methodology
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Cultural Guide: May 23- 29
This week’s guide celebrates all things design with Clerkenwell Design week and a trip down boyhood memory lane with the South London gallery
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The object of material change
A tactile exhibition of samples from Adjaye Associates’ offices misses an opportunity to shed light on the architect’s craft, says David Rosenberg
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How to build an argument
Edward Glaeser’s eulogy of city life looks set to become a cornerstone of debate, says Otto Saumarez Smith
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Cultural Guide: May 16-22
British art’s enfant terrible, Tracey Emin returns to the limelight with the Hayward Gallery and we learn whether science fiction is any closer to becoming science fact with the AA School
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The Petrified Music of Architecture: Sir Herbert Oakeley’s Collection of Cathedral Models
David Rosenberg lays aside his cynicism and delights in this exhibition of 1850s scale-model cathedrals
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The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
Adam Caruso delights in the completion of a 55-year project to publish extensive photographs of the work of Louis Sullivan
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City Visions 1910 | 2010
An exhibition on town planning contrasts 100-year-old proposals with current ones
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Cultural Guide: May 9- 13
This week’s cultural guide narrowly escapes an Edwardian Sheffield workhouse to indulge in a little post-war glamour with a newly completed glimpse of the Alexandra Road estate
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Work on Paper, part II: Simplification
The second in a series examining the role of drawing in architecture.
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Site-writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism by Jane Rendell
Jane Rendell’s interpretation of art criticism builds a hive of intriguing reflections.
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The 18th Century church in Britain by Terry Friedman
Terry Friedman’s formidable tome may test readers’ stamina.