All Review articles – Page 38
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ReviewBuilding a Library 25: What is Japanese Architecture?
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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ReviewCultural Guide: Aug 23- 29
This week’s cultural guide kicks off with a visit to the Venice Architecture Biennale before partying in style with the De La Warr Pavilions’s 75th birthday
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ReviewCultural Guide: Aug 16-22
This week’s cultural guide revisits London’s forgotten spaces as it takes up a new spell of residence in Basil Spence’s Swiss Cottage Library gallery and drops in on Bristol’s architecture centre to find out what life is really like with 7 Pritzker prize winning architects.
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ReviewFrancis Alÿs: A Story of Deception
Former architect Francis Alÿs uses visual grand gestures to explore the impact of human intervention on the environment
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ReviewGerrit Thomas Rietveld: Life Thought Work
Bertus Mulder’s biography, issued in English to mark the ’Year of Rietveld’, is a handy introduction to Utrecht’s most famous son
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ReviewBuilding a Library 24: Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewCultural Guide: August 9- 15
This week’s cultural guide travels to the far reaches of Sussex to visit the Charleston Farmhouse, Berwick Church and Towner. But for those who’d rather stay closer to home, there’s Love, loss, desire, despair with Jim Hodges’ exhibition at the Camden Arts centre
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ReviewCultural guide: Aug 2- 8
This week’s cultural guide goes a little squared eyed, with an architectural film season at the BFI and industrialised alienation and paranoia at the Milton Keynes gallery, amongst other cultural highlights.
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ReviewFilm review: Inception
Christopher Nolan’s latest film offers a depressingly unrealistic idea of the architect mentality.
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ReviewBlock magazine launched
This new architecture magazine’s first issue speaks for a growing culture of austerity chic.
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ReviewBuilding a Library 23: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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ReviewCultural Guide: July 26 - Aug 1
This week’s cultural guide encounters a heady mix of Freud and surrealism at the Barbican, before spending at intimate evening with the Serpentine pavilion at close quarters.
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ReviewPermanently Magical
A new exhibition shows the latest attempt to renew Sir John Soane’s Museum
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ReviewBuilding a Library 22: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewIOWAC’s Studio in the Woods 2010
This year’s Studio in the Woods upheld its yearly outdoor tradition of enacting intellectual debate with chainsaws
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ReviewCultural Guide July 19- 25
This week’s cultural guide includes David Byrne from Talking Heads taking a turn as a film director at the Barbican or for the more adventurous sort, there’s the chance of a good old knees up with the AIA UK chapter at the Whitechapel.
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ReviewCharles Rennie Mackintosh, by James Macaulay
John McKean finds this latest biography of the celebrated Scottish architect confusing and of shaky scholarly integrity.
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ReviewBD’s pick of the top ten haunted buildings
Most architects are familiar with the concept of ghost architecture – the buildings that were never fully realised or have long since been demolished that linger on in archives occasionally resurfacing in exhibitions and research projects.
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ReviewA round-up of the latest sustainability products
Products used in sustainability projects include in-roof solar panels and construction panels made from straw and recycled paper.
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ReviewColumbia Building Intelligence Project Think Tank
A polemic against parametricism lit up Columbia University’s London event.