All Review articles – Page 72
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New book titles for February
Eric Parry Architects Vol.2By Wilfried Wang and Dalibor VeselyBlack Dog £24.95208pp PBThis volume includes projects such as Finsbury Square office building and the new home for the London Stock exchange at Paternoster SquareThe Schools of Herman HertzbergerEditors Abram de Swaan & Vibeke Gieskes010 Publishers £20 (E29.500)160pp PBThis overview ...
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ReviewDesign Museum’s rebranded awards show makes for a fantastic spectacle
The Brit Insurance Designs of the Year are broad range and a welcome departure from the cult of the star designer, says Pamela Buxton
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Hawaiian Modern. The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff By Dean Sakamoto with Karla Britton and Diana Murphy
Hawaiian Modern. The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff By Dean Sakamoto with Karla Britton and Diana Murphy
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ReviewArchitecture after Communism: Bart Goldhoorn - March 17
Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme
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ReviewSumer Erek’s newspaper house puts excess newsprint to good use
Amanda Birch previews two installations that show how discarded newspapers can have an artistic and useful afterlife
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ReviewConference looks at the lost art of the new town
The Architecture Foundation’s New New Town conference shed light on how a century of new town development could inform our thinking on eco-towns
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ReviewBack to the Future: Basil Spence - until April 8
Coventry Cathedral designer and former RIBA president Basil Spence, who died in 1976, is celebrated in this show, first launched at the cathedral last August. The collection includes drawings, sketchbooks, models and period film from the Sir Basil Spence Archive, many of which have not been seen before.
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ReviewSustaining Identity Symposium – May 20
The V&A hosts a half-day symposium to discuss the role of architecture and the environment, in the maintenance of individual cultures under threat from increasing globalisation.
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ReviewPropositions for Cities: Mary Yacoob - until March 16
A scintillating exhibition showcasing Mary Yacoob’s curious and inventive drawings proposing slender vertical cities. All pieces are sourced from the artist’s remarkable imagination and from Science Museum machines.
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ReviewPeter Cook presents: Jakob and Macfarlane – February 25
When New Zealander Macfarlane returned to Paris (after a studying at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Harvard) he was told by Thom Mayne to look up another former Morphosis player when he got to Paris. This was Dominique Jakob…and he’s never looked back since.
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ReviewHow health and hygiene dominated inter-war modernist architecture
Paul Overy’s book explores the links between the inter-war modern movement and social preoccupations with health and hygiene, writes Alan Powers
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ReviewRodchenko exhibition fails to cover all the angles
Rodchenko, Russian master of photography, is not served well by this show at the Hayward, says Ed Frith
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Robust Buildings - April 8
With Risk becoming a major influence in the way Building Service Engineers design and how building managers and operators should handle the responsibilities of their role, this one day seminar will give an overview of the corporate risks arising from building services. It will also raise awareness of both operational ...
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ReviewTalking Cities: Urban Design Public Lecture Series 2008 – From February 18
In partnership with MADE (Midland's Architecture and Designed Environments centre of excellence) and Atkins, Birmingham City University is hosting five lectures in the newly refurbished Birmingham Town Hall.
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ReviewThe Temple Architecture of India: Adam Hardy - February 26
Giving an overview of the classical traditions of Indian temple architecture, Adam Hardy delves into their unparalleled combination of sensuous appeal and complex formal structure.
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ReviewSet in Stone: Real & imaginary architecture - until April 26
Five contemporary artists (Emily Allchurch, Stephen Carter, Michael Durning, Stefan Hoenerloh & Ben Johnson) present their own interpretations of architecture both real and imaginary.
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ReviewChris Bosse + Anagram Architects - February 26
Sydney based, German architect Chris Bosse, best known for his work with PTW architects in Sydney, as concept architect of the Watercube in Beijing’s Olympic Park; bases his work on the computational study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions. Boss will discuss pushing the boundaries of structure and architecture ...
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ReviewCambridge Dutch Public Lecture Series - starts February 12
Cambridge University's series of high profile public lectures on Dutch architecture this month kicks off with Francine Houben 'Dutch Mountains' on the 12th of February. More acts to follow include Rem Koolhass, Winy Maas, Ben van Berkel.
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ReviewHow Wren struck gold at St Paul’s Cathedral
This fascinating account of how St Paul’s Cathedral came to be looks at the social history of building in Wren’s time, says Gavin Stamp
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ReviewFluent’s wind modelling program will blow you away
For quick ventilation analysis, computational fluid dynamics is hard to beat. Dan Jestico, senior environmental engineer at consulting engineer Hilson Moran, describes the benefits of airflow modelling with Fluent 6.3