All Review articles – Page 7
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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
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ReviewBook Club review: Concrete Concept
Simon Carne hopes this book will reach the unconverted, but warns of the perils of fetishising concrete without understanding its pitfalls
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ReviewPeter Aldington reminds us that we need slow architecture
Good architecture takes the kind of time that’s in short supply these days, says Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewBook Club review: Deployable Structures
From Buckminster Fuller to Adam Kalkin, these important and intriguing structures deserve a more heavyweight assessment than this pocket guide can deliver, says Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club review: Modernist Estates
Balazs Endrodi finds this richly illustrated hardback a pleasure to look at but a little disappointing to read
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ReviewBook Club review: Soundings from the Estuary
Paul Lincoln reviews a meditative essay in words and pictures