All Review articles – Page 43
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ReviewFarshid Moussavi’s new book focuses on form
FOA partner Moussavi has thoroughly explored in The Function of Form how ‘affects’ can create more inclusive architectural forms
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ReviewFrom drawing boards to debt: Four generations speak out
When Michael Manser, 80, began his career, architects still sat at drawing boards wearing smocks
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Review2050: Where will architecture be in 40 years?
We asked a panel of experts to predict what the built environment would look like in 2050
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ReviewBuilding a Library 1: On Architecture by Vitruvius
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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ReviewBD's Guide to your cultural week- March 1 to March 7
There's a whole lot of legacy in this week's cultural guide with the Architecture Foundation zooming in the Olympics. But for the more lethargic cultural athlete, why not sample a taste of American glamour in mid-century modern architecture with the Royal College?
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ReviewVan Doesburg and the many faces of modernism
Tate Modern’s exhibition reveals the multiplicity of movements the artist was engaged in
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ReviewLaura Wilson: Horse of a Different Colour
The artist’s latest performance, Blind Building, proves more evocative than her new show
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 22 to February 28
Zebra finches storm the charts or perhaps just the Barbican with the Curve gallery's latest incarnation. Also on the menu this week are talks on Westminster, the US Embassy and the Commonwealth Institute amongst others.
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ReviewLearning to live with Las Vegas
Denise Scott Brown’s standing ovation at Yale shows how the profession has moved on, says Sean Griffiths
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ReviewLifestyle classes from Matthew Darbyshire’s Elis building
Applying Photoshop to AHMM’s back catalogue, this installation asks difficult questions about urban regeneration
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ReviewOn site with a client? There’s an app for that
The iPhone is now a technology platform in its own right. Simon Johns brings you a guide to the best architecture-related applications
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ReviewFlemish architect Jan de Vylder shows the beauty of making do
We hear the first of four lectures given by practices who are placing Flanders at the forefront of the architectural debate
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 8 to February 14
Fancy listening? Then this week tune into one of the numerous talks and lectures going on, from David Adjaye on I.M Pei at the RIBA, Gene Kohn at the NLA or Mao at the RCA.
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ReviewChronicles of Nairnia
Jonathan Meades entertaining talk on Ian Nairn failed to do justice to the legendary architecture critic
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ReviewFilms reveal secret lives of buildings
Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne’s films show how buildings negotiate the difficult years following their completion
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ReviewReview:Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, by Terry Farrell. Wiley, 288 pp, £39.99
This ambitious portrait of London has the best aspirations, but does not seem to know if it is trying to be a chatty historical run-through of some of the city’s highlights, or to provide a more focused, diagrammatic approach to understanding the capital.
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ReviewReview: Keith Williams: Architecture of the Specific. Images publishing, 224pp, £45,
The work of Keith Williams has been subtle. Instead of meteoric competition wins, the rise of the practice has been a gradual process of successful cultural and civic work across the UK. Indeed, its size and scale is somewhat modest and humble in a culture obsessed with iconography in architecture. ...
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- February 1 to February 7
This week's cultural guide has an international flavour, with the London Met showcasing four up-and-coming Flemish practices in their lecture series plus the Architecture Foundation's international exchange programme's focus falls on Istanbul.
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ReviewChipperfield seeks ideas over polish at this year’s RA Summer Exhibition
David Chipperfield talks about the challenges of curating the architecture section of the 2010 Royal Academy summer show
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ReviewGothic architecture and 19th century photography
Gothic architecture’s complexity made it ideal for the pioneers of photography who could capture every detail