All Review articles – Page 45
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ReviewUnderneath architects’ book covers
You can learn a great deal about architects by snooping through the collections on their library shelves
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ReviewDieter Rams’ machines for living with
The Design Museum’s Less is More exhibition reveals how Rams’ architectural training brought about a modernist revolution in product design
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ReviewStern’s bulletins from the front line of architecture
The theories in Robert Stern’s new book Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism sound convincing, but the realities surround us
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ReviewArchitects on the epiphany of inhabitation
Curated by Juhani Pallasmaa, the V&A’s second Sustaining Identity symposium discussed the spirit of place with speakers Charles Correa and South Africa’s Gawie Fagan
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- December 7 to December 13
Join one of contemporary art's most controversial duos, Jake and Dinos Chapman in conversation at the National Portrait gallery or delve into the plans for East London's waterways with a half-day conference at the NLA, in this week's guide to your cultural week.
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ReviewMcMorran & Whitby book does them justice
A new book by Edward Denison celebrates Donald McMorran and George Whitby as significant figures within the history of 20th century British classicism
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ReviewAthanasius Kircher: The man who knew everything
Newly expanded version of Joscelyn Godwin’s book uncovers a vast treasure trove of work by the Roman critic and philosopher Athanasius Kircher
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ReviewSaarinen: Captain America
New York exhibition reveals Eero Saarinen was nothing less than an architect of the US’s ascent as a superpower
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ReviewReview: The National Gallery: A Short History, by Charles Saumarez Smith, Frances Lincoln, 192pp, £14.99
In this book, Charles Saumarez Smith recounts the history of the National Gallery of which he was director from 2002-2007.
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ReviewReview: London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer’s Guide by Ken Allinson, Architectural Press, 200pp, £14.99
Another guidebook for architecture in London? A quick search on Amazon shows more than 200 titles so there is enough competition. London’s Contemporary Architecture claims to be for people who enjoy experiencing architecture, whether Londoners or visitors.
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ReviewReview: All We Need Is Love: Save Buildings at Risk, 2009-2010, by Catherine Townsend. Libanus Press, 200pp, £15
In this age where converting or redeveloping building stock is the stuff of reality TV, some perspective is given by Save Britain’s Heritage’s 20th compendium of buildings at risk in England and Wales.
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ReviewReview: The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art, by Jules David Prown. Yale University Press, 72pp, HB, £25
Jules David Prown was the first director of the British Art Centre at Yale at the time of its construction, and was instrumental in appointing Louis Kahn as architect. This beautifully presented book is a brief but insightful account of the design process and the BAC's construction.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- November 30 to December 6
Delve into 25 years of the RIBA's competition office archive or explore the remarkable work of notoriously controversial sculptor, Eric Gill in this week's guide to your cultural week.
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ReviewWholly Smoke! Colourful London guide is a delight
Jones and Woodward’s offers an updated edition of their London guide with a crisp new design
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ReviewThe AA’s First Works exhibition takes us back to the future
A survey of early projects by stellar architects is the gospel according to the AA, says Niall Hobhouse
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week- November 23 to November 29
In this week's cultural guide it's debates a-plenty with Eric Parry taking to the ring and fighting the international architect's corner over the future of Bath and a compare and contrast breakfast talk on Lubetkin's prized Finsbury Health centre and AHMM's Kentish Town Health Centre
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ReviewCasting aside visions of jetpacks and spacestations
Cinema and architecture from Metropolis to Bladerunner long reflected each other's zeal for imagining the future.
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ReviewColquhoun's essays: Philosophy in practice
A new book of Alan Colquhoun’s writings reveal a man bent on using rationale to underpin architectural discourse
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ReviewCities of the Lens
A recent Architecture Foundation debate explores how the camera can help construct an ‘alternative urbanism’
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ReviewAuerbach: Opportunity from chaos
Courtauld Gallery exhibition shows Frank Auerbach’s paintings were inspired by post-war destruction and the pace of change