All Review articles – Page 95
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Review10% off the five best books about Aalto
Every month the RIBA bookshop will be recommending the best titles on a different subject and offering BD readers a 10% discount. Our first selection features the five best books about Alvar Aalto to tie in with the current Barbican exhibition
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ReviewThe Barbican's Aalto exhibition
A major exhibiton of Alvar Aalto, seen through the eyes of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, opened at the Barbican on Thursday. Zoë Blackler was at Wednesday's private view to get the first reactions
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ReviewReview: Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
Mike Davis's climate change talk at the Riba on Monday night was not for the faint-hearted, writes James Rose
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ReviewLabour of love sheds new light on master
“It hasn’t been enjoyable. It’s been very difficult,” says Shigeru Ban about his role putting together the exhibition on Alvar Aalto, opening next week at The Barbican.
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ReviewAlvar Aalto's enduring influence
To mark the opening of the Barbican's major show on Alvar Aalto, Graham Bizley considers his influence today
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ReviewPlaying the computer game
Gianni Botsford’s flexible use of computer modelling reveals him as one who bucks architects’ usual traps.
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ReviewEmerging from the bamboo curtain
Yung Ho Chang’s book reveals a new Chinese architectural identity, believes Nicholas C Thompson
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ReviewReflections of a model citizen
Kester Rattenbury is simultaneously charmed and scared by Kas Oosterhuis’s ‘swarm’ architecture
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ReviewSculpture vs furniture
The comparative spatial roles of furniture and sculpture are examined in the new show Figuring Space: Sculpture/ Furniture from Mies to Moore.
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ReviewA jump towards the big time
M2R opened this year’s Winter Nights lecture series with an assured performance.
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ReviewBeauty treatment
The latest in a long line of books on the arts and crafts movement looks impeccable, but brings little new illumination.
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