All Review articles – Page 37
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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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ReviewLet the good times roll: 1980s
The decade marked a shift towards hi-tech and post-modernism, and the intervention of royalty
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ReviewFrom drawing boards to debt: John Lyall
John Lyall ruminates on how the architect’s role has changed since the 1980s
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ReviewLet the good times roll: 1970s
My last leader as editor of BD was written in May 1979. “I took over shortly after the three-day week,” I wrote, “and followed the profession into the abyss of the worst slump since the 1930s.”
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ReviewFrom drawing boards to debt: Michael Manser
Michael Manser looks back at a career spanning more than five decades
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