All Review articles – Page 30
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewEcological Urbanism
Mohsen Mostafavi’s collection of essays opens up the scope of landscape design
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ReviewAram Gallery: The Then-Now Show
An exhibition comparing leading designers’ work with their degree show designs is illuminating.
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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewBuilding 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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ReviewThe Natural Order of Things: Marcelo Cidade and Andre Komatsu
Industrial materials emphasise a dystopian view of society
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ReviewLaurie 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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ReviewCultural 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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ReviewCedric Price: Wish We Were Here
The AA’s new show charts Price’s transformation of everyday life
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ReviewEuropean 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.
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ReviewDASH: The Luxury City Apartment
In these interesting economic times, many practitioners might be forgiven for thin-king that the only sector of the building industry unaffected by the doldrums is that of the platinum-plated apartment block or marble-clad town house.
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ReviewCultural Guide: March 21- 27
You’ll certainly need to wash your hands this week after this our cultural highlights include a brief history of dirt and a trip to a bar with a difference
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ReviewModels for the future
This book could offer some ideas for future affor-dable housing development in hard financial times.
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ReviewHolding urban imagination
Everyone who has wandered past my desk recently has picked up this book.
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ReviewIl Girasole
This breathtaking multimedai chronicle of Angelo Invernizzi’s fairy tale Italian villa revolves profound ideas of time and space
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ReviewBuilding a Library 47: Civilsation: A Personal View, by Kenneth Clark
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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ReviewMaccreanor Lavington’s Waterside Park in the Royal Docks
Maccreanor Lavington is creating urban character in London’s Docklands. Here Gerard Maccreanor explains the firm’s housing block.
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Review1965—2011 Towards a new Glasgow
A display of events archives provides a foundation for the future, says James Benedict Brown
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ReviewCultural Guide: March 14-20
This week’s cultural guide delves into the mind of Cedric Price, before touching on a revolutionary 1970s prototype project for the future of art practice