All Review articles – Page 6
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ReviewBook Club review: Architectural Agents
Can buildings kill, maim and trigger addiction? And if so could they also be designed to have a positive effect on users?
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ReviewPerfecting a language of architecture that the 99% can understand
If everyone is an architect, how come language is such a barrier, asks Daniel Elsea
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ReviewA distressing history of cultural genocide
From ‘Bomber’ Harris to Isis, this new documentary, The Destruction of Memory, takes an even-handed approach to its appraisal of vandals, says Richard Gatti
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ReviewWhat does architecture mean in places like Syria and the Calais Jungle?
Joanna Day is impressed by the Architecture Foundation’s refugee festival
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ReviewBook Club review: The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey
Nicholas Vaughan Roberts on an architect who could produce a set of scaled plans, sections and elevations in a weekend
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ReviewReview: RA Summer Exhibition architecture room
There are moments of richness in this year’s architecture room, but there is also a great deal of mediocrity, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewWe're in the middle of a housing crisis, but RIBA's saccharine show offers no serious solutions
The perennially moribund Royal Institute belatedly weighs in on Britain’s acute housing crisis with a let-them-eat-cake exhibition of sickly home sweet homes, says Phil Pawlett Jackson
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ReviewBook Club review: Concrete Concept
Simon Carne hopes this book will reach the unconverted, but warns of the perils of fetishising concrete without understanding its pitfalls
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ReviewPeter Aldington reminds us that we need slow architecture
Good architecture takes the kind of time that’s in short supply these days, says Balazs Endrodi
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ReviewBook Club review: Deployable Structures
From Buckminster Fuller to Adam Kalkin, these important and intriguing structures deserve a more heavyweight assessment than this pocket guide can deliver, says Zac Carey
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ReviewBook Club review: Modernist Estates
Balazs Endrodi finds this richly illustrated hardback a pleasure to look at but a little disappointing to read
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ReviewBook Club review: Soundings from the Estuary
Paul Lincoln reviews a meditative essay in words and pictures
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ReviewAfter Chernobyl: Moving a whole town
Book Club: Balazs Endrodi, who grew up in one of the Soviet Union’s ‘nuclear cities’, reviews a new guide to the nation’s last atomgrad
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ReviewBook Club review: An Igloo on the Moon
This children’s introduction to architecture will delight adults too, says Gem Barton
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ReviewHigh Rise and Hinterland: Modernism's morality plays
JG Ballard’s brutalising tower and Gillespie Kidd Coia’s abandoned seminary were both designed to usher in a better world. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks what went wrong
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ReviewReview: Who are you calling a maverick?
Simon Carne takes issue with a slippery definition but admits Owen Hopkins’ new book and exhibition at the Royal Academy kick-start a great debate on the nature of architectural radicalism
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ReviewBook Club Review: 100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Simon Carne is left underwhelmed by this slab-like book-as-building-material
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ReviewReview: Creation from Catastrophe
What architecture ‘really is’ is at stake in a new exhibition at the RIBA comparing historic disaster responses with a new movement of community-led rebuilding approaches. Phil Pawlett Jackson questions the dichotomy
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ReviewBook Club review: The Changing Image of Affordable Housing
Richard Timmins reviews a worthwhile study of an alternative approach to developing affordable architecture
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ReviewBook Club review: Pevsner - the BBC years
Matthew Elsinor reviews a heavyweight appraisal of Pevsner as broadcaster