All Review articles – Page 56
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BD’s guide to your cultural week: March 9 to 15
Choose between lectures on Lasdun, Niemeyer, experimental architecture and more; or catch the film of the architect of Birmingham’s controversial Central Library, John Madin.
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ReviewGhostly architecture
How the BBC television drama series Being Human made a star of a terraced house in Bristol
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ReviewTilling infertile architectural ground
There’s a whiff of hypocrisy in Jeremy Till’s call in his latest book for architects to re-engage with the everyday
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ReviewThe Urban Housing Handbook, by Eric Firley and Caroline Stahl
A real treasure trove, the Urban Housing Handbook explores 30 historic models of housing from around the world, alongside modern interpretations.
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ReviewPhilip Johnson: The Constancy of Change, edited by Emmanuel Petit
To be bad, powerful and morally corrupt is extremely attractive. At least, that is what it was to Philip Johnson, architect, narcissist, erstwhile fascist and New York socialite.
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ReviewMaps, by Nigel Peake
The drawings in Nigel Peake’s new collection are all “maps”, though this is not immediately obvious. Thanks to the contents page, we know that real places outnumber Calvino-esque fictions in this book, but the distinction matters little. In every case, what is depicted is a tapestry of imagination-documentary, bounded by ...
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ReviewInfill: New Houses for Urban Sites, by Adam Mornement and Annabel Biles
Defined as an industry term for the development of small-scale vacant parcels of land within built-up areas, this book features 39 examples of “infills”, covering projects in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia.
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ReviewLe Corbusier's lyrical legacy
Jean-Louis Cohen’s lecture at the Barbican last week painted an unexpected picture of Le Corbusier. The academic from New York University Institute of Fine Arts spoke of the architect’s capacity for “lyricism in the machine age”.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: March 2 to 8
Hang out in Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, reconstructed at the Riba; spend an imaginary day or two in the architect’s life at the Barbican; listen to a lecture in Leeds; or put the Horlicks on for an architectural edition of Night Waves.
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ReviewAlvaro Siza: the epic and the everyday
Why the work of Alvaro Siza, the Portuguese architect who this week receives the RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal, is an inspiration for architects everywhere
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ReviewAlvaro Siza: intensity through dialogue
Alvaro Siza, who will receive the Royal Gold Medal at RIBA tonight, talks to Ellis Woodman about his influences
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ReviewCorbusier exhibition in the Barbican (slideshow)
Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture opened at the Barbican Art Gallery last week, see how the exhibition looks in its new space.
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ReviewBD's guide to your cultural week: February 25 to March 1
From the RIBA gold medal lecture to Swiss designers at the Lighthouse, BD's deputy editor Liz Bury rounds-up the best cultural events coming up this week.
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ReviewLet’s get physical, physical... rapid prototyping helps bring your projects to life
Hugh Davies explores the latest in computer modelling
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ReviewIain Sinclair’s “Hackney, That Rose- Red Empire” is flawed, yet brilliant
Author Iain Sinclair embraces one of London’s maverick hangouts with his usual passion, but it may take some stamina to read it all
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ReviewAutodesk’s LandXplorer: kit that’s right up your street
New city modelling technology is given a test run
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ReviewRodchenko and Popova: Artists who came in from the cold
Tate Modern does justice to the constructivist works of the great Soviet artist-workers, says David Brady
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ReviewGoogle’s whack at 3D begins to stand out
The ability to create unique drawing styles is just one of the attractions of Google SketchUp 7
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ReviewGoldfinger's architecture with an edge
What kind of personality conjured Alexander Fleming House? Or Balfron Tower? Not a clubbable one, by all accounts.
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ReviewCrossway architect Richard Hawkes' cultural life
On tonight’s Grand Designs, architect Richard Hawkes presents Crossway, his zero-carbon house in Kent. He tells BD about his cultural passions.