All Review articles – Page 42
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ReviewDesign for Today: Central Office of Information films
Government films released on DVD by the BFI make fascinating viewing
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ReviewAldington Craig & Collinge by Alan Powers
This practice’s meticulous approach avoided the formulaic and set them apart from the modernist mainstream
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ReviewBuilding a Library 6: The Art of the West by Henri Focillon
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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BD’s guide to your cultural week – April 6 to April 11
Head off to Fitzrovia to see Peter Murray’s enamel artworks about movement in London.
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ReviewGraphic Masterpieces of Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov: the Collection of Dmitry Chernikhov
A new three-volume set reveals how Chernikhov’s architectural fantasies helped him to rise above totalitarianism
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ReviewBuilding a Library 5: Guide to Greece
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewJoseph Ettedgui 1938-2010
The founder of the Joseph fashion chain commissioned architects such as Norman Foster, David Chipperfield and Sanaa to design his shops
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BD’s guide to your cultural week – March 29 to April 4
Find out if design can make a difference to our sustainable future with a new exhibition at the Design Museum and catch a glimpse of David Adjaye’s photography or head up to Birmingham for a glimpse of the ordinary made extraordinary at the Ikon Gallery
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ReviewCharles Fourier: L’ecart Absolu at Musée des Beaux-Arts in Besançon, France
This exhibition reveals that though he was branded ‘ungodly’ in his lifetime, Charles Fourier’s utopian vision was surprisingly prescient in places
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ReviewBuilding a Library 4: Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- March 22 to March 28
Find out why London's low on 'liveability' and what can be done about and also drop into the Architecture Foundation to learn how to become an architectural smooth talker in this week's cultural guide
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ReviewHorace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
Before its reopening, Horace Walpole’s idiosyncratic home is being celebrated by the V&A
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ReviewBrit Insurance Designs of the Year
Design Museum exhibition puts the stress on sustainability and social purpose
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ReviewAnjalendran: Architect of Sri Lanka
David Robson’s book gives little hint of the political context behind the architecture of Tamil architect Chelvadurai Anjalendran
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ReviewBuilding a Library 3: A history of architecture: Settings and rituals by Spiro Kostof
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: March 15 to March 19
Take an architectural tour of the square mile or dip your toes into a little bit of Romanian cinema, and if that doesn't spark your creative taste buds, perhaps it's time to learn a little about the authority of an architect with Niall McLaughlin.
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ReviewToby Paterson exhibition: Consensus and Collapse
Glaswegian artist Toby Paterson’s fascination with desolate fragments of cities helps us to re-examine architecture’s visual and social role
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ReviewBuilding a Library 2: In Praise of Shadows by By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: March 8 to March14
This week's cultural guide takes you on a tour of post-colonial Bamako in Mali, and to the edges of space with John Tunnard's abstract painting, before landing squarely back in London with Tristram Hunt's lecture on Trafalgar Square
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ReviewStyles that defined the decades
Hugh Pearman looks at the architectural movements of the past four decades