All Review articles – Page 36
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ReviewJohn Pawson: Plain Space
A retrospective at the Design Museum offers a glimpse of more opulent times. But is Pawson’s minimalism all too much now?
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ReviewCounter Space
A 1920s fitted kitchen is the starting point for a wide-ranging exhibition at New York’s MoMA
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ReviewBuilding a Library 29: Nairn’s London
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewCultural Guide: September 27- October 3
This week’s cultural guide encounters Darwin at close quarters before taking time out for a little cloud gazing with Anish Kapoor at the Serpentine Gallery
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ReviewRachel Whiteread Drawings at Tate Britain
Whiteread’s Tate Britain exhibition throws interesting light on her sculptural exploration of the spaces in between.
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ReviewArchitecture in the Balkans
Slobodan Curcic’s epic survey is worth the complexity of its journey
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ReviewBuilding a Library 28: A Documentary History of Art edited by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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ReviewCultural Guide: Sept 20- 26
This week’s cultural guide features a wander along an Alfred Hitchcock inspired hallway with the Ikon gallery and a trip into the mind of “The father of modern architectural minimalism”, John Pawson.
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ReviewBD previews Open House weekend
This weekend hundreds of buildings in London are opening up their doors to the public as part of the city’s annual Open House event, BD picks five of the best to go and visit.
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ReviewLet the good times roll: 2000s
As a new century began, everyone wanted an icon, but most public buildings were lumbered with PFI
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ReviewFrom drawing boards to debt: Harri Williams-Jones
In the final installment in our series, architecture student Williams-Jones talks about facing a future in architecture
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ReviewFat’s womenswear department in Selfridges
Quirky features and strong colours combine to make Fat’s design of the womenswear department at Selfridges Oxford Street strikingly different from the usual department store environment.
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ReviewRecent books on interiors
RIBA Bookshops’ choice this month includes books on modernist furniture pioneer Knoll plus Carlo Mollino and Julius Shulman.
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ReviewPeople’s Palaces: The Golden Age of Civic Architecture
BBC4’s show on northern England’s Victorian buildings was a missed chance.
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ReviewBuilding a Library 27: Strolling Through Istanbul
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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ReviewArchitecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970
Thomas S Hines’s huge volume examines LA through the architects that created it, with special focus on Schindler and Neutra
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ReviewLet the good times roll: 1990s
Britain came out of recession with lottery projects helping establish new confidence
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ReviewFrom drawing boards to debt: Polly Damen
Assael’s associate director on working abroad during a recession and how the attitude to female architects has changed.
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