All Review articles – Page 8
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ReviewBook Club review: The Architecture School Survival Guide
Gem Barton reviews an essential read for architecture freshers
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ReviewBook Club review: Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
John Pillar reviews a collection of essays that challenges architects to work for and learn from the creativity of the global south
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ReviewContemplating the bother of suburbia
Generations of planners and architects have tried to ‘solve’ the suburbs. They’d have been better off enlisting the locals, the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival heard
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ReviewReview: Palladian Design – the Good, the Bad and the Unexpected
The second big Palladio exhibition in less than a decade includes some great contemporary projects, but there are a few surprising omissions, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewBook review: The Barbican - Architecture and Light
Ike Ijeh enjoys a portrait of the Barbican as spirited as Chamberlin Powell & Bon’s masterpiece itself
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ReviewBook Club review: Enric Miralles from Left to Right
This intimate portrait reveals an architect grounded in reality, says Daniel Parker
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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 nine new titles
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ReviewBook Club review: Forty Ways to Think about Architecture
Gem Barton finds much to chew over in this timeless book
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ReviewBook Club review: The Evolution of Shell Lace Structure
This readable book explores one practice’s ingenious approach to efficient structural design, says Matthew Shanley
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ReviewBook Club review: Architectural Modelmaking
This generously illustrated guide shows models remain an important part of the design process, says Richard Timmins
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ReviewBook Club review: Michael Wilford - Selected Buildings and Projects
This detailed monograph focuses a critical eye on the breezy renders produced for so many projects, writes Benjamin Machin
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ReviewBook Club review: Improbable Libraries
A new global survey of libraries is a delightful reminder of the diversity of the building type, says Stephen Smith
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ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
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ReviewWhen architects only tell one side of the story
Are architects complicit in creating narratives that ultimately serve to line developers’ pockets? Joanna Day was at an Architecture Foundation debate on the subject
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ReviewReview: Decision by Carsten Höller at the Hayward Gallery
There’s a lot to enjoy but this disorientating retrospective isn’t quite what it promises, finds Harriet Partridge
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ReviewBook Club review: The Fabric of Place
This survey of the work of Allies Morrison is less monograph and more urban design primer, writes Kieran Gallagher
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ReviewHow do you solve a problem like education?
From making insurance sexy to strengthening hierarchies, Harriet Partridge tries to capture all the ideas flowing at a debate on how we should train architects
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ReviewReview: Architecture gallery, RA Summer Exhibition
Ian Ritchie’s curation explores the relationship between buildings and their evolving landscapes, finds Paul McGrath
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ReviewBook Club review: Uncharted - The new landscapes of tourism
Architecture students at IE University explore the role design can play in triggering economic activity in a post-industrial landscape
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ReviewLearning from the Smithsons
Social housing design is back on the agenda but there are no stock answers. Joanna Day joins the conversation at an exhibition by Karakusevic Carson Architects