All Reviews articles – Page 3
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Review | Becoming Urban: The Mongolian City of Nomads
The challenges of a rapidly urbanising Mongolia are dissected and addressed in a new book, reviewed by Katharine Heron
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Review | Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter
Hugh Petter’s work offers a much needed riposte to the orthodoxies of much architecture and urbanism over the last 60 years, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
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Review | High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis
A new book on high streets invites us to see the retail crisis in a different light, and seek out innovative ways to reinvent our urban centres, writes Jennie Savage
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Review | Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice
Stephen Lovejoy reviews a new book that dissects the industry, while celebrating the value that architects can bring elsewhere
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Review | Peter Womersley, by Neil Jackson
James Grimley enjoys a new book on Peter Womersley and hopes that it acts as ‘a rallying call to action’ on preserving the architect’s work
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Review | Mousa to Mackintosh: the Scottishness of Scottish architecture
Roger Emmerson reviews a new book on the history of Scottish architecture
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Review | Norman Foster at the Centre Pompidou: ‘Definitive… for now’
This giant restrospective captures the rich diversity of Foster’s output, but leaves the man still something of a mystery, writes Sarah Simpkin
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Herzog and de Meuron at the Royal Academy: ‘This is not a retrospective’
The RA has mounted an exhibition that tells an intriguing and judicously edited story about the renowned Swiss practice, writes Daniel Elsea
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Review | Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person
A new book by Andy Field reminds Karl Singporewala of the vital importance of in-person interactions
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Review | Isaac Julien: What Freedom Means to Me
Nicholas de Klerk finds an exhibition at Tate Britain is a reminder that the creation of buildings and their use over time is an essentially collective human endeavour
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Review | At Home in London: The Mansion Block, by Karin Templin
Giles Heather finds a new book on the London mansion block uplifting, but wonders whether the contemporary typology needs to be better defined
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Review | The Deck Access Housing Design Guide
A new book on the history and design of deck access housing convinces Tony McIntryre that there is still much mileage in this particular typology
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Review | Housing for Hope and Wellbeing, by Flora Samuel
Stephanie Edwards welcomes Flora Samuel’s book on the challenges facing housing, as well as her optimistic call for action
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Review | Windows in Architecture, by Christopher Masters
Tony McIntyre enjoys a new publication from Merrell
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Review | Edward Cullinan Architects, by Kenneth Powell
A new book reveals the ‘somewhat eccentric sensibility of an often very good architect’, finds Patrick Lynch
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A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape by Victoria Perry
Jeremy Musson finds that a new book on architecture and slavery is informative, but wonders where it leaves the debate about how to manage the built heritage that is its legacy
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Review | How we celebrate the coronation: Designs for a new reign
Emma Dent Coad is at first intrigued and then dispirited by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust’s publication
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Designs on Democracy: Architecture & The Public in Interwar London
A new book by Neal Shasore offers a fascinating insight into the evolution of the profession, writes Matthew Wickens
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Why Grenfell: System Failure was not for me
Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas Kent’s recent play on the Grenfell Inquiry was well produced but failed to capture the community’s sense of anger, writes Emma Dent Coad
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The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections
Tony McIntyre enjoys a journey through the RIBA’s drawings collection