All Review articles – Page 5
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ReviewReview | What is a queer space?
Stephen Molloy is entertained and impressed by the tender beauty of new RIBA publication Queer Spaces but is troubled by the lack of a clear definition of what they are. Co-author and editor Adam Nathaniel Furman explains why the book resists being pinned down.
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ReviewReview | Two rooms and two curators: this Summer Exhibition is mixing things up
The RA’s architecture room focuses on the climate emergency but only underlines the inadequacy of most architects’ responses, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | There is nothing else remotely like it in modern architecture
Post modern architect John Outram’s colourful and exuberant style is back in fashion. Tony McIntyre reviews a major new book on the man and his work
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ReviewReview | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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ReviewReview | Straight Line Crazy: Forces that shaped our cities are still in evidence today
David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy is a powerful production that examines how an unelected planner can affect millions of lives, writes Thomas Lane
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ReviewThe verdict: Ike Ijeh on Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion
BD’s critic is beguiled by the work of the youngest architect yet to win the annual commission
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ReviewReview | Piers Gough's architecture room at the RA
This year’s Summer Exhibition addresses serious themes with wit and verve, says Michael Collins
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ReviewReview | Five of the best pavilions at Venice
More than 80 national pavilions and events are being staged in Venice on the biennale theme of Freespace. Daniel Elsea picks five worth seeing
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ReviewReview: 2018 Venice Biennale
Freespace contains exceptional, thought-provoking work. But a few people’s ‘Will this do?’ approach is more trade show than architecture festival
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ReviewReview: Architecture room at the RA Summer Exhibition
Michael Collins on the exhibition curated by Farshid Moussavi
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ReviewBrutalism: Where did it all go wrong?
In a crowded field, this exhibition has much to contribute and deserves a bigger platform than the RA’s architecture ‘corridor’, says Daniel Elsea
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ReviewWhy are architectural exhibitions so hard?
Architecture is a uniquely difficult artform to present in a gallery. Photographers, painters and modelmakers have all tried, with varying degrees of success. Could the immersive world of comics be a more helpful medium? Richard Gatti finds out
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ReviewSacred Geometries: An exhibition in search of an angle
Richard Gatti reviews a show where architectural photographers are cast as high priests, but finds them more interested in shapes than symbolism
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ReviewCommunal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewBook Club review: How to Read Towns & Cities
An appealing idea doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, finds Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club Review: Studio Craft & Technique for Architects
Every architect will find this handy guide to practical skills useful, says Matthew Elsinor
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ReviewBook Club review: Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks
Benjamin Fallows thinks this book’s ‘pamphlety’ delivery obscures its important message on conservation
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ReviewWhy can’t architects write in a language normal people can understand?
A good book on a great architect is let down by its impenetrable prose, laments Balazs Endrodi
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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 10 new titles
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ReviewBook Club review: Form Heft Material
The literal and figurative journeys that have brought David Adjaye to the eve of the opening of his Smithsonian are traced in this thematic collection