All Review articles – Page 4
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ReviewOn the Street by Edwin Heathcote
Nicholas de Klerk reviews a new book by Edwin Heathcote that explores the way in which we invest meaning into our public spaces through inhabiting them.
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ReviewJan Kaplický: For the Future and For Beauty
A new book on Jan Kaplický brings a much needed focus on his life and work, write Rachel Stevenson and David Miller
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ReviewA History of Council Housing in 100 Estates
Councils played a central role in housing provision throughout most of the 20th century. Tony McIntyre reviews a new book that charts that history
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ReviewNo Free Parking: The Curious History of London’s Monopoly Streets
Robert Adam enjoys Nicholas Boys Smith’s deep dive into the history of London’s streets
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ReviewMonumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
Debates around public monuments are a potential minefield. A new book can help us navigate this complex territory, writes Emma Dent Coad
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ReviewPart of a City: The Work of Neave Brown Architect
Matthew Wickens enjoys a new book “by architects, for architects” about Neave Brown
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ReviewHorror in the Modernist Block: The dystopian underside of the modernist vision
Contemporary artists shine a light on the haunting aspects of building design, writes Joe Holyoak
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ReviewDesigned to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes
Tom Dollard’s book is both a useful technical reference point and an inspiring guide to the future of energy efficient construction, writes Tony McIntyre
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ReviewPeter Marlow’s The English Cathedral: ‘Creeping towards eternity’
Giles Heather finds an exhibition of Peter Marlow’s English cathedral photographs evokes a medieval sense of longing and hope
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ReviewIce cream in the desert: A global journey through a climatically intelligent past
Jonathan Glancey enjoys a journey around the world, told through a series of climatically appropriate buildings and landscapes, with Italian architect Mario Cucinella
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ReviewCaruso St John’s collected works: ‘An insightful journey through a pivotal period in British architecture’
Edmund Fowles reviews the first volume of Caruso St John’s collected works
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ReviewReview | A moment in time: The disappearing architecture of the Bengali Renaissance
To fully understand the Bengali Renaissance we need to understand and preserve its architecture, writes Megan Kirkpatrick
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ReviewReview | Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Nicholas de Klerk is stimulated and inspired by Ruth Lang’s book on creative reuse
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ReviewReview | Brutalist Britain by Elain Harwood
Jenny Marris reviews a new book on the architecture that defined an era
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ReviewReview | Back to the Drawing Board: An Exhibition of Recent Work by James Willis & Carl Laubin
Two very different artists have found common themes and rediscovered the pleasure of the drawing board, writes Tony McIntyre
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ReviewReview | 21st Century Houses: RIBA Award-Winning Homes
Matthew Lloyd appreciates the production quality of a new book on RIBA award-winning houses, but wonders what happened to the floorplans
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ReviewReview | Birmingham: The Brutiful Years
Joe Holyoak welcomes a new book on Birmingham’s modernist architecture, but despairs at a civic culture that fetishises the wrecking ball
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ReviewReview | Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life
Patrick Lynch finds that a book on Sigurd Lewerentz reveals new perspectives on the Swedish architect while also reinforcing his enduring relevance to contemporary practice
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ReviewReview | 100 20th Century Houses by the Twentieth Century Society
Emma Dent Coad enjoys a book on twentieth-century houses and wonders whether it has lessons to teach us about the current housing crisis
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ReviewReview | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.