All Review articles – Page 28
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Gino Valle monograph
This book reveals reveals the extraordinary contribution of one of Italy’s greats.
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The Cult of Beauty
This exhibition follows the aesthetic movement from the Bohemian studios of Chelsea to the suburbs of west London
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2011 Milan Furniture Fair highlights
As the Milan Furniture Fair celebrated its 50th year, commercial diversification seemed to be the show’s big trend
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Building a Library 50: Genius Loci by Christian Norberg-Schulz
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Wignall & Moore’s The King and the Minotaur
Wignall & Moore’s labyrinth installation exemplifies our cultural fixation with the temporary
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Cultural Guide: April 18- 24
This week’s cultural guide visits accidental churches in the most unlikely locations, before taking a dip in Bompas & Parr’schocolate fountain
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Further reading on refurbishment
Two recent books take very different approaches to the integration of modern design with existing historic building.
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Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior
The Days’ post-war work may have lost its original shock value but is still influential 60 years on
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Building a Library 49: Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, edited by Michael W Meister and MA Dhaky
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Cultural Guide: April 11-17
This week’s cultural guide explores the ruins of contemporary Detroit before getting down to the roots of the modernist dream, with Milton Keynes in its infancy.
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Ecological Urbanism
Mohsen Mostafavi’s collection of essays opens up the scope of landscape design
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Aram Gallery: The Then-Now Show
An exhibition comparing leading designers’ work with their degree show designs is illuminating.
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Cultural Guide: April 4-10
This week’s cultural guide considers the merits of Béton Brut alongside a rethink of James Stirling’s work in the context of the crisis of modernism
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Building a Library 48: Discourses on Architecture by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Food on the Move by David Lawrence
This study of motorway services takes readers on a memorable journey
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The Natural Order of Things: Marcelo Cidade and Andre Komatsu
Industrial materials emphasise a dystopian view of society
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Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown and Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown scene, New York 1970s
New York’s 1970s artists used the city to explore ideas of place and connection
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Cultural Guide: March 28- April 2
This week’s cultural guide gets to grips with Stirling and Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building amongst other highlights
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Cedric Price: Wish We Were Here
The AA’s new show charts Price’s transformation of everyday life
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European Housing Concepts 1990-2010
I am sorry to say that many of the half dozen essays, which kick off this design review, feel portentous and lacking in original insight.