All Review articles – Page 55
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ReviewA Higher Ambition: Owen Jones (1809-74)- until November 22
A selection of designs, drawings and paintings by Owen Jones, to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth.
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ReviewEquipping the Cabanon: Its Interior and Furniture - March 23
A talk by Arthur Ruegg, co-curator, le Corbusier, The Art of Architecture on the 1:1 replica of the interior of Le Corbusier's Cabanon currently on show at the RIBA.
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ReviewRebecca Warren until April 19
Rebecca Warren (born 1965) is known internationally for her exuberant, roughly-worked clay sculptures, bronzes and vitrines containing carefully assembled objects that the artist has collected.
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ReviewIdeology in Transparency - May 8
Ten PhD candidates, targeting certain issues related to the symposium theme, will present a series of individual papers. These papers are thematically arranged into two groups.
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ReviewBD’s guide to your cultural week: March 23 to 29
Talking heads this week include Stephen Bayley and Marc Auge at the ICA; Glen Howells at Manchester’s CUBE Gallery; and all-star cast Joseph Rykwert, Peter Rees, Ricky Burdett and Paul Finch at the Barbican.
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ReviewLe Corbusier’s Cabanon 1952/2006 The interior 1:1: until April 28
Explore a 1:1 replica of the interior of Le Corbusier's Cabanon, the holiday house he built for himself on the Cote d'Azur.
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ReviewAsta Gröting: Sculpture 1987-2008 - until April 26
Twenty years ago Asta Gröting’s glass sculptures of human entrails caused a stir and were exhibited all over Europe.
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ReviewVu-topia: Homes for the Future (U*)- March 28
From American 1950s suburban promise of a bright future with the help of multi-talented robots (Leave it to Roll-Oh) to Charley’s plan to wave good bye to overcrowded cities in favour of the UK’s new towns, this session looks back at the post-war optimism and the modern home.
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ReviewHands Over the City (12*): May 9
In contrast the success of the Barbican estate, cheaply produced high-rise housing developments tainted the legacy of Le Corbusier and modernism, especially in Britain.
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ReviewUne Ville à Chandigarh (PG*) (Dir. Alain Tanner): April 18
Dubbed the ‘utopian poster city of the 20th Century’, Le Corbusier’s masterplan for the capital of Punjabi was never completely finished.
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ReviewVu-topia: The City of Control: THX 1138 (Dir. George Lucas)- March 29
Set in the stark environment beneath the Earth’s surface, George Lucas’ first commercial feature envisages a de-personalised future civilization controlled by authoritarian robotic police.
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ReviewVu-topia: A Civic Endeavour (PG*): March 28
Global war, gleaming underground cities and a luddite's reaction to space travel, H.G Wells’ landmark Things to Come offers an epic 100 year prophecy.
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ReviewAlexander Sturgis and Eric Parry the Holburne Project- March 25
Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne and Eric Parry, architect of the Museum’s extension will be giving a lecture on their plans for the Holburne Project.
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ReviewWhen new towns go bad
Indie maestro Darren Hayman has produced a folk opera based on Frederick Gibberd’s 1947 vision for Harlow
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ReviewAsta Gröting’s human formations
This retrospective of sculpture by Asta Gröting at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds traces her influences and antecedents
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ReviewWhitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blaswick's cultural life
The eagerly-anticipated Whitechapel Gallery extension is due to open next week. Here director Iwona Blaswick tells BD about her cultural passions
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BD's guide to your cultural week: March 16 to 22
This week, debate urban renaissance, explore John Lautner's architecture or take on the planners at table football.
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ReviewWhen Richard Seifert stalked the land
This take on Richard ‘Colonel’ Seifert’, one of the stalwarts of London’s architectural scene in the 1960s, was a little too cosy
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ReviewLe Corbusier’s Le Cabanon at the RIBA
Le Cabanon, the French Riviera beach home Le Corbusier built for his wife in the 1950s, arrives at the RIBA in a 1:1 reconstruction
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ReviewJohn Bejteman on the architecture of Leeds
A fascinating but little known film made in 1968 by John Betjeman about the architecture of Leeds has been digitised and put online