All Review articles – Page 59
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ReviewBD’s pick of the upcoming architecture and design events in 2009
If adversity breeds creativity, then 2009 could be a fascinating year. Liz Bury picks out some of the inspiring and thought-provoking architecture and design events to look out for in the months ahead
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ReviewSerpentine’s Indian wraparound
Frankfurt-based architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Muller have installed this structure around the Serpentine Gallery to display a series of works by India’s most acclaimed living artist M F Husain, depicting the history of India.
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ReviewSaul Steinberg’s skewed perspectives
Architect manqué Saul Steinberg’s work is a blast, says Saul Metzstein
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ReviewWright and beautiful
A new book on the non-residential work of Frank Lloyd Wright is a keeper, says George Ferguson
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ReviewBernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi presented his New Acropolis Museum at the RIBA last week, and took Greece’s bid to win back the Elgin Marbles to the next level.
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ReviewMichael Stiff: In Side Out until 20th December
Practising architect Michael Stiff's fifth solo show at Piano Nobile, consists of drawings generated from photographs, and sketches, and watercolours made on location.
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ReviewArchitectural artist Michael Stiff leaves a lasting impression
Michael Stiff, champion of drawing as an architectural skill, has a rare show. Give us more, says Stephen Astley
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ReviewBook Club: December's titles up for review
Titles up for review in December in BD's Book Club range from the specific – such as green roofs – to a sweeping view of world architectural masterpieces.
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ReviewTatlin’s tower still has the power to inspire
Art collective Henry VIII’s Wives is creating a portion of Soviet architect Vladimir Tatlin’s famous design in east London
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ReviewRon Arad: busy wearing two hats
After 35 years, Ron Arad has formally divided his design and architecture output. Jessica Cargill Thompson finds out why, and what he thinks of the current exhibition of his work at the Pompidou Centre in Paris
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ReviewBD Event: Virtual Careers Fair – February 18 &19, 2009
BD's Virtual Careers Fair is an opportunity for recruiters and candidates to interact in real time without leaving the office.
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ReviewDigital by Design
Don't be misled by the title of this book – you won't find any parametric this or BIM that. You will find, however, lots of blurred boundaries and intersections between art and technology.
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ReviewModern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
The essays in this volume, translated for the first time into English, are three formative texts of the modern movement in Sweden from the turn of the 19th century to the 1930s.
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ReviewContemporary Housing
With such a general title, I was expecting a much larger book. This is more a compact reference guide to the author’s choice of 100 of the most significant housing projects of the past 10 years.
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ReviewMore Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
In the midst of all the heated debates about the best way forward during a recession, this book stands out as a testimony to non-conformist design paths that would satisfy any architect's creative intelligence.
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ReviewKey Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century
Like any good puzzle, the planning of a flat has always had something of a compulsive fascination for me. So it was exciting to find a book that brings together such an interesting and eclectic collection of housing plans.
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ReviewOur modern hinterlands
Borderspaces, a photographic show at Hackney’s new Schwartz Gallery, charts city life at the very edge of change
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ReviewArchitecture goes from coast to ghost at Jaywick
Artist Nathan Coley’s colourful addition to the village of Jaywick near Clacton-on-Sea is an engaging reminder of the temporary nature of all construction, says Tony McIntyre
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ReviewFraming the future: film and architecture
Saul Metzstein examines how film uses present-day architecture to portray the future
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ReviewBentley’s V8i upgrade provides new vision for architecture visuals
Bentley’s V8i upgrade, its largest-ever simultaneous release of new products, is an important step along the evolutionary line to 3D design