All Review articles – Page 79
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ReviewBritain’s Lost Cities By Gavin Stamp
Comprehensive book about Britain’s lost urban heritage with images of streets and buildings destroyed by bombing or planned demolition.
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ReviewBritain's Lost Cities by Gavin Stamp
Comprehensive book about Britain's lost urban heritage with images of streets and buildings destroyed by bombing or planned demolition.
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ReviewUSA. Modern Architectures in History By Gwendolyn Wright
In this new volume in the Modern Architectures in History series Wright contends that American modern architecture is not merely a branch of the European modernism brought across the Atlantic by European émigrés but an exciting hybrid of cultures, sensibilities and nationalist style.
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ReviewA-Z of Modern Architecture Editor Peter Gossel
This comprehensive encylopedia has 600 entries, not only architects but also groups, movements and styles from the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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ReviewArchitecture in Detail By Graham Bizley
Collection of detailed studies of recent construction projects, selected for their use of innovative techniques.
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The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism By Martin Pawley
A collection of 100 essays and articles by Martin Pawley over 40 years
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ReviewThinking Practice: Reflections on Architectural Research and Building Work Edited by Nicholas Temple and Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
Examines the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice
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Architectural In situ Concrete By David Bennett
Providing in-depth technical guidance for the use of concrete in architecture. Contains large number of landmark case studies
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Richard England: Architect as Artist Edited by Dennis Sharp
Essays by Manfredi Nicoletti and Mario Botta. Selection of work by Maltese architect and artist Richard England
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ReviewStrawberry Hill. Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castle By Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi
Strawberry Hill began as Walpole’s ‘Little play-thing house’ and became one of the wonders of the 18th Century . It is now undergoing major restoration having been neglected for years
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ReviewTadao Ando’s marks a natural progression
Tadao Ando’s talk was more concerned with saving the planet than with architecture, says Gerrard O’Carroll
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Design and Plan in the Country House. From castles Donjons to Palladian Boxes by Andor Gomme and Alison Maguire.
Explores the evolution of country house plans throughout Britain and Ireland, from medieval times to the eighteenth century.
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The Holy Place: Architecture Ideology and History in Russia By Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorij Koslov
Surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow
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ReviewThe Judicious Eye, Architecture against the Other Arts By Joseph Rykwert
It is only in relatively recent times that architecture, together with other allied disciplines has been divorced from the visual arts. Rykwert examines how this separation of roles occurred and how architecture and the arts are now coming together again and what this might imply for the future.
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ReviewArchitecture or Techno-Utopia. Politics after Modernism by Felicity D. Scott.
The first history of twentieth-century America’s architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the “underground” – featuring the experiments, practices and polemics of the 1960s and 1970s.
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ReviewAdolf Loos. Works and Projects By Ralf Bock
A new volume dedicated to the constructed works of Adolf Loos
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ReviewGillespie, Kidd and Coia: Architecture 1956 – 1987 Edited by Johnny Rodger
Comprehensive book to go with The Lighthouse Exhibition includes the history of Gillespie Kidd & Coia practice and the context within which MacMillan and Metzstein were to flourish.
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ReviewJean Prouve Complete Works Volume 4: 1954-1984 by Peter Sulzer.
The final volume of the complete works.
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ReviewGillespie, Kidd & Coia: Architecture 1956 to 87 – until February 10
The Lighthouse hosts a major survey of the work of Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein, looking at the buildings they designed during their years at the helm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and their legacy both in Scotland and beyond.
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ReviewThomas Schutte: Model for a Hotel 2007 - until November 7
Taking over from Marc Quinn¹s 'Alison Lapper Pregnant', Thomas Schutte¹s 'Model for a Hotel 2007' takes up its position on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square on the 7th of November.