All Review articles – Page 33
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ReviewCultural Guide: January 3-9
This week’s cultural guide delves into the realms of science fiction and environmental catastrophe at Chetwood’s Green Room before tuning into the soothing tones of Puccini at the Barbican.
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ReviewCultural Guide: December 20- 26
This week’s cultural guide is getting in the swing of the festive season with a little samurai action at the Barbican before peacefully exploring the art of placemaking.
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ReviewJames Stirling’s Notes from the Archive
Did James Stirling view drawing as more important than building?
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ReviewBuilding a Library 39: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, by Jacob Burckhardt
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewCultural Guide: December 13-19
This week’s cultural guide takes us to the troubled streets of revolutionary Bucharest before stepping back in time with Simon Starling at the Camden Arts Centre
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ReviewThrilling Wonder Stories II
Competing visions of the future provided a challenge to the designers of today at this AA seminar
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ReviewThe Slice: Cutting to See
A display of eclectic artefacts dissects the significance of slicing things open
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ReviewBuilding a Library 38: The Archaeology of Athens, by John M Camp
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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Review5th Studio’s reworking of family accommodation at Churchill College
Troublesome and outdated family graduate accommodation at Cambridge’s Churchill College has been given a careful reworking by 5th Studio.
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ReviewSimon Henley on the 15-year masterplan for Roehampton University
Henley Halebrown Rorrison has drawn up a 2025 masterplan for Roehampton University’s expansion. Simon Henley explains how this was informed by references as diverse as a cemetery and a lamp-post.
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ReviewCultural Guide: December 6- 12
This week’s cultural guide reaches for the stars literally, with the BBC’s ’Climbing Great Buildings’ and Milky Way vision of Milton Keynes
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ReviewRietveld’s Universe
A new Gerrit Rietveld show in Utrecht struggles to locate the designer’s work within its historical context
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ReviewBuilding a Library 37: Gourna, A Tale of Two Villages, by Hassan Fathy
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewBristol fashion
Marcel Breuer’s brief encounter with the West Country is commemorated in this show, writes Hugh Strange
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ReviewCultural Guide: November 29 to December 5
This week’s cultural guide has a knees up in a secret warehouse location with ’Alice in Gypsyland’ before learning an exercise in stillness with Manon De Boer at the South London Gallery
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ReviewNew towns and politics
A conference examined the role new towns play in housing the world’s growing urban population
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ReviewUtopia London
A documentary on London County Council’s post-war legacy celebrates a revolutionary zeal unknown today
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ReviewJonathan Meades & Will Alsop, The Free Word Centre in association the Little Atoms radio show Urban Renaissance?
Cultural heavyweights, Jonathan Meades and Will Alsop faced each other at Farringdon’s Free Word Centre on Friday night to debate the extent and success of a British urban renaissance. They remained almost motionless, straining not at the leash but the girdle.
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ReviewYael Reisner's casual socialising digs deep on the subject of beauty in architecture
The glittering cast at least tells us that, for Yael Reisner, compiling Architecture and Beauty was an enviable exercise in casual socialising — visiting Venice with Cook, gabbling with Gehry in LA, even lunching in London with Woods.