All Review articles – Page 93
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ReviewCompetition result: Riba Trust Annual Lecture tickets
Congratulations to Mark Robinson who has won a pair of tickets for Herbert Girardet's Riba Trust Annual Lecture on Tuesday 1 May at the RIBA, Portland Place.
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ReviewThe home front, US style
Modern architecture is intrinsically tied up with war, argues this US-centric book reviewed by Catherine Croft
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ReviewLesson from failure
Andy Goldsworthy’s message that nature is cruel is delivered without sentiment.
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ReviewLacking colour
A new show does little justice to Ettore Sottsass’s influential career, says Charles Holland
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ReviewBooks — round-up
Evocations of Place: The Photography of Edwin Smith, by Robert Elwall. Merrell, HB, £35.
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ReviewBathing beauties: Beach huts for the 21st century - images
An oyster shell, a gin and tonic and holey cheese are among the inspirations for the beach hut of the future
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ReviewThe world of illusion made real
The latest exhibition of surrealism shows its influence on modern architects, despite the discipline’s modest role in the movement. This pleasurable show should be a blockbuster, says David Cunningham
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ReviewThe post man still delivers
Thirty years after his seminal book on po-mo, Charles Jencks continues to grapple with the world after modernism. As his latest book on the subject is published, he speaks to Ellis Woodman
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ReviewNew books for April
New titles including La maison de Verre and the Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt.
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ReviewCharting the tides that carry technical change
The strength of this ambitious publication is its linking of technical development to the social and cultural context, writes Matthew Wells
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ReviewEdible beauty to savour
Adrian Dannatt commends an exhibition celebrating Barcelona’s architectural journey on from ‘modernisme’
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ReviewThe shortlisted entries in the AA's summer pavilion competition
View images of the winning design and other shortlisted entries to the competition now in its second year
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From The Poetics of Cybridized Architecture by Neil Spiller
"My organization is the sloth like profession of architecture. My language is a symbiotic broth of purple prose, baroque waywardness and surrealist spatial protocols invigorated by space that does the many spangled two-step between the treacle space of out here and the slippery cyberspaces of inside computers."Nominated by Rob Backhouse-Cook ...
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Review10% off the five best books on suburbia in the city
Every month the RIBA bookshop will be recommending the best titles on a different subject and offering BD readers a 10% discount. This month's selection features the five best books about ‘suburbia in the city’ to accompany Patrick Lynch’s seminars at the Ideal Home Show
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ReviewBringing it all back home
An innovative study of Inigo Jones is a testament to both its subject and author.
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ReviewOlafur Eliasson
The Scandinavian artist, working in collaboration with Kjetil Thorsen of Snohetta, has replaced Frei Otto as the designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Heidi Ancell discovers more about him
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ReviewManchester's miniature marvels
A-models' gilt miniatures of Manchester's key new schemes form the centerpiece of the city's stand at this year's Mipim property fair
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ReviewSaving grace
Is Luigi Colani a fading pop star with a giant ego or one of the world’s most original design talents? Amanda Levete gives her assessment