All Review articles – Page 74
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ReviewAmenity Space puts architecture on the radio
Pamela Buxton profiles the pair behind Resonance FM's architecture show, Amenity Space. Plus, listen to three of their best broadcasts
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ReviewTaketo Shimohigoshi with AAE + FAM Arquitectura y Urbanismo: January 31
Taketo Shimohigoshi will be talking about the architectural landscape of central Tokyo. Shimohigoshi has been considering the relationships between architecture and the overcrowded image of the city and will talk about his ideas, using some of his projects by way of example.
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ReviewKenneth Martin and Mary Martin: Constructed Works - until April 20
In their first joint show since 1971, Kenneth and Mary Martin, two of Britain’s most important post-war abstract artists, explore their interest in mathematical principles and repeated forms and also their belief in art’s role in improving public life.
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ReviewBeyond live/work: Frances Holliss lecture - 18 February
"Presenting her doctoral research as part of the London Met department of architecture's 2008 public lecture series, architect and academic Frances Holliss will discuss buildings that combine dwelling and workplace. She will establish this as an old but little written about building type that has substantial contemporary relevance ...
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ReviewWork Architecture Company - February 13
Concluding lecture in the Winter Nights: New York series organised by the Architecture Foundation and sponsored by BD
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ReviewThe organic modernist
Roger Stonehouse’s survey of the life and passions of Colin St John Wilson, who died last May, acclaims him as a master of public place-making and also as a fine writer and theorist, says James Payne
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ReviewLeonardo on Flight By Domenico Laurenza
Da Vinci dreamt of human flight and this beautifully illustrated volume reconstructs the origin of one of the most fascinating and fundamental aspects of his life and work
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ReviewSienna: Constructing the Renaissance City by Fabrizio Nevola
This book offers a fresh and engaging account of Sienna’s unique architectural achievements, enhanced with a beautiful collection of historic and new photographs.
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ReviewReview: Testing cad skills with CADsmart
How do you know if job candidates are as good at cad as they say? And how effective are your own employees? Paul Carnell, associate director at Benoy, explains how CADsmart is helping his practice to get some answers
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ReviewThe Endless City by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
This book is an unparalleled study of the growth of six international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin) exploring key structural, economic and social factors.
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ReviewThe Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England by Maurice Howard
This book shows how changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of building a new society through the image making of public and private patrons in the revolutionary century between reformation and civil war.
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ReviewCities from Zero edited by Shumon Basar
This book focuses on Dubai and China and asks whether we are in the presence of new, proto-typical urban conditions. What distinguishes these kinds of cities from the vast majority of those we already live in?
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ReviewElement By Cecil Balmond
In this book, Balmond observes the shapes and structures of nature from a cultural travel writer’s perspective.
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ReviewUSA: Modern Architectures in History by Gwendolyn Wright
A clear concise account of modern American architecture.
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ReviewWingardh: Thirty Years of Architecture Edited by Mikael Nanfeldt
A monograph of the work of Gert Wingardh, one of Sweden’s leading architects, whose spatial creations are remarkable in economic as well as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of future users.
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ReviewCrucial Words: Conditions for Contemporary Architecture Edited by Gert Wingardh and Rasmus Waern
A special reference work and reader to 50 key concepts in modern architecture.
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ReviewArchitecture in the Emirates By Philip Jodidio
Construction fever in the Gulf has attracted many of the world’s most prominent architects including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel
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ReviewOn Altering Architecture By Fred Scott
On Altering Architecture explores the alternative to the sequence of demolition and new building that makes up the usual practice of architecture.