All Review articles – Page 6
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After Chernobyl: Moving a whole town
Book Club: Balazs Endrodi, who grew up in one of the Soviet Union’s ‘nuclear cities’, reviews a new guide to the nation’s last atomgrad
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Book Club review: An Igloo on the Moon
This children’s introduction to architecture will delight adults too, says Gem Barton
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High Rise and Hinterland: Modernism's morality plays
JG Ballard’s brutalising tower and Gillespie Kidd Coia’s abandoned seminary were both designed to usher in a better world. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks what went wrong
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Review: Who are you calling a maverick?
Simon Carne takes issue with a slippery definition but admits Owen Hopkins’ new book and exhibition at the Royal Academy kick-start a great debate on the nature of architectural radicalism
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Book Club Review: 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Simon Carne is left underwhelmed by this slab-like book-as-building-material
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Review: Creation from Catastrophe
What architecture ‘really is’ is at stake in a new exhibition at the RIBA comparing historic disaster responses with a new movement of community-led rebuilding approaches. Phil Pawlett Jackson questions the dichotomy
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Book Club review: The Changing Image of Affordable Housing
Richard Timmins reviews a worthwhile study of an alternative approach to developing affordable architecture
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Book Club review: Pevsner - the BBC years
Matthew Elsinor reviews a heavyweight appraisal of Pevsner as broadcaster
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Book Club review: Estate and Context
Simon Carne reviews two books which address the same question from very different angles
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Book Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
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Review: The World of Charles and Ray Eames
The Barbican’s visually stimulating show is full of surprises, finds Joanna Day
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Review: Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the late US sculptor’s work is full of shadows, literal and figurative, finds MJ Wells
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New titles to review in BD's autumn architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of 10 new titles
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Review: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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Review: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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Book Club review: The Architecture School Survival Guide
Gem Barton reviews an essential read for architecture freshers
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Book Club review: Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
John Pillar reviews a collection of essays that challenges architects to work for and learn from the creativity of the global south
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Contemplating the bother of suburbia
Generations of planners and architects have tried to ‘solve’ the suburbs. They’d have been better off enlisting the locals, the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival heard
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Review: Palladian Design – the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
The second big Palladio exhibition in less than a decade includes some great contemporary projects, but there are a few surprising omissions, finds MJ Wells
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Book review: The Barbican - Architecture and Light
Ike Ijeh enjoys a portrait of the Barbican as spirited as Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s masterpiece itself