All Review articles – Page 7
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ReviewPeter Marlow’s The English Cathedral: ‘Creeping towards eternity’
Giles Heather finds an exhibition of Peter Marlow’s English cathedral photographs evokes a medieval sense of longing and hope
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ReviewIce cream in the desert: A global journey through a climatically intelligent past
Jonathan Glancey enjoys a journey around the world, told through a series of climatically appropriate buildings and landscapes, with Italian architect Mario Cucinella
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ReviewCaruso St John’s collected works: ‘An insightful journey through a pivotal period in British architecture’
Edmund Fowles reviews the first volume of Caruso St John’s collected works
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ReviewReview | A moment in time: The disappearing architecture of the Bengali Renaissance
To fully understand the Bengali Renaissance we need to understand and preserve its architecture, writes Megan Kirkpatrick
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ReviewReview | Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Nicholas de Klerk is stimulated and inspired by Ruth Lang’s book on creative reuse
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ReviewReview | Brutalist Britain by Elain Harwood
Jenny Marris reviews a new book on the architecture that defined an era
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ReviewReview | Back to the Drawing Board: An Exhibition of Recent Work by James Willis & Carl Laubin
Two very different artists have found common themes and rediscovered the pleasure of the drawing board, writes Tony McIntyre
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ReviewReview | 21st Century Houses: RIBA Award-Winning Homes
Matthew Lloyd appreciates the production quality of a new book on RIBA award-winning houses, but wonders what happened to the floorplans
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ReviewReview | Birmingham: The Brutiful Years
Joe Holyoak welcomes a new book on Birmingham’s modernist architecture, but despairs at a civic culture that fetishises the wrecking ball
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ReviewReview | Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life
Patrick Lynch finds that a book on Sigurd Lewerentz reveals new perspectives on the Swedish architect while also reinforcing his enduring relevance to contemporary practice
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ReviewReview | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
Emma Dent Coad enjoys a book on twentieth-century houses and wonders whether it has lessons to teach us about the current housing crisis
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ReviewReview | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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ReviewReview | What is a queer space?
Stephen Molloy is entertained and impressed by the tender beauty of new RIBA publication Queer Spaces but is troubled by the lack of a clear definition of what they are. Co-author and editor Adam Nathaniel Furman explains why the book resists being pinned down.
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ReviewReview | Two rooms and two curators: this Summer Exhibition is mixing things up
The RA’s architecture room focuses on the climate emergency but only underlines the inadequacy of most architects’ responses, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | There is nothing else remotely like it in modern architecture
Post modern architect John Outram’s colourful and exuberant style is back in fashion. Tony McIntyre reviews a major new book on the man and his work
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ReviewReview | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | Straight Line Crazy: Forces that shaped our cities are still in evidence today
David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy is a powerful production that examines how an unelected planner can affect millions of lives, writes Thomas Lane
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ReviewThe verdict: Ike Ijeh on Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion
BD’s critic is beguiled by the work of the youngest architect yet to win the annual commission
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ReviewReview | Piers Gough's architecture room at the RA
This year’s Summer Exhibition addresses serious themes with wit and verve, says Michael Collins
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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