All Review articles – Page 6
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ReviewReview | Five of the best pavilions at Venice
More than 80 national pavilions and events are being staged in Venice on the biennale theme of Freespace. Daniel Elsea picks five worth seeing
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ReviewReview: 2018 Venice Biennale
Freespace contains exceptional, thought-provoking work. But a few people’s ‘Will this do?’ approach is more trade show than architecture festival
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ReviewReview: Architecture room at the RA Summer Exhibition
Michael Collins on the exhibition curated by Farshid Moussavi
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ReviewBrutalism: Where did it all go wrong?
In a crowded field, this exhibition has much to contribute and deserves a bigger platform than the RA’s architecture ‘corridor’, says Daniel Elsea
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ReviewWhy are architectural exhibitions so hard?
Architecture is a uniquely difficult artform to present in a gallery. Photographers, painters and modelmakers have all tried, with varying degrees of success. Could the immersive world of comics be a more helpful medium? Richard Gatti finds out
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ReviewSacred Geometries: An exhibition in search of an angle
Richard Gatti reviews a show where architectural photographers are cast as high priests, but finds them more interested in shapes than symbolism
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ReviewCommunal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewBook Club review: How to Read Towns & Cities
An appealing idea doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, finds Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club Review: Studio Craft & Technique for Architects
Every architect will find this handy guide to practical skills useful, says Matthew Elsinor
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ReviewBook Club review: Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks
Benjamin Fallows thinks this book’s ‘pamphlety’ delivery obscures its important message on conservation
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ReviewWhy can’t architects write in a language normal people can understand?
A good book on a great architect is let down by its impenetrable prose, laments Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewNew titles to review in BD's summer architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of 10 new titles
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ReviewBook Club review: Form Heft Material
The literal and figurative journeys that have brought David Adjaye to the eve of the opening of his Smithsonian are traced in this thematic collection
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ReviewBook Club review: Architectural Agents
Can buildings kill, maim and trigger addiction? And if so could they also be designed to have a positive effect on users?
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ReviewPerfecting a language of architecture that the 99% can understand
If everyone is an architect, how come language is such a barrier, asks Daniel Elsea
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ReviewA distressing history of cultural genocide
From ‘Bomber’ Harris to Isis, this new documentary, The Destruction of Memory, takes an even-handed approach to its appraisal of vandals, says Richard Gatti
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ReviewWhat does architecture mean in places like Syria and the Calais Jungle?
Joanna Day is impressed by the Architecture Foundation’s refugee festival
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ReviewBook Club review: The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey
Nicholas Vaughan Roberts on an architect who could produce a set of scaled plans, sections and elevations in a weekend
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ReviewReview: RA Summer Exhibition architecture room
There are moments of richness in this year’s architecture room, but there is also a great deal of mediocrity, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewWe're in the middle of a housing crisis, but RIBA's saccharine show offers no serious solutions
The perennially moribund Royal Institute belatedly weighs in on Britain’s acute housing crisis with a let-them-eat-cake exhibition of sickly home sweet homes, says Phil Pawlett Jackson