All Review articles – Page 7
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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
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ReviewAfter 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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ReviewBook Club review: An Igloo on the Moon
This children’s introduction to architecture will delight adults too, says Gem Barton
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ReviewHigh 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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ReviewReview: 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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ReviewBook Club Review: 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Simon Carne is left underwhelmed by this slab-like book-as-building-material
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ReviewReview: 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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ReviewBook 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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ReviewBook Club review: Pevsner - the BBC years
Matthew Elsinor reviews a heavyweight appraisal of Pevsner as broadcaster
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ReviewBook Club review: Estate and Context
Simon Carne reviews two books which address the same question from very different angles
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ReviewBook Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
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ReviewReview: The World of Charles and Ray Eames
The Barbican’s visually stimulating show is full of surprises, finds Joanna Day
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ReviewReview: 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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ReviewNew 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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ReviewReview: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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ReviewReview: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation