All Archive Titles articles – Page 38
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Save us from celebs
All glory-seeking architects now want to be masterplanners. The trouble is, while they’re still thinking like architects they’re never going to produce good urbanism.
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Archive TitlesBody in the library
Gunnar Asplund By Peter Blundell Jones Phaidon, £45 Review by Isi Metzstein
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Archive TitlesBattle of the boulevards
Car-friendly, low density Milton Keynes is expanding at a rate that could give it the urban quality it has always lacked – or destroy the things its residents love about it.
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Designing for autism
As architects and parents of an autistic son, my husband and I felt moved to comment on the Lantern Chidren’s Centre in last month’s journal . I also work in the field of primary education.
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Cities exist despite architecture,
Says Jeremy Till, curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Acknowledgement
The photograph of the classroom of the future in Richmond in the September issue was taken by Valeria Carullo
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Archive Titles7 Up
The new residential neighbourhood of IJburg, being built on seven artificial islands in the east of Amsterdam, continues Holland’s centuries-old tradition of typological variation in housebuilding.
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Archive TitlesIn Detail: Semi-Detached and Terraced Houses, Edited by Christian Schittich, Birkhäuser, £50
All manner of social, symbolic and technical considerations are investigated in the first three essays of this latest In Detail offering, and it’s the contrast between the breadth of the opening editorial and the dispassionate clarity of the individual project presentations that makes these editions compelling.
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Archive TitlesDesigning the Seaside – Architecture, Society and Nature, By Fred Gray, Reaktion Books, £29
It is ironic that this rather hefty anthology documenting the history of architectural design of the seaside comes in such an inconvenient format for reading on the beach.
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Archive TitlesSave Britain’s Heritage 1975-2005: Thirty Years of Campaigning By Marcus Binney, Scala, £20
Founded in 1975, the year in which 182 listed buildings were demolished in England alone, SAVE embarked on its heroic campaign to save the nation’s architectural heritage – from the humble back-to-back, to neo-classical country houses, to the monolithic mills of the North.
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Archive TitlesBuilt upon Love By Alberto Pérez-Gómez, MIT Press, £18.95
MIT Press, £18.95We experience buildings through our sexual bodies, loves and desires, and should think about and build them accordingly, claims Pérez-Gómez. Sweeping through the history of Western architecture, this accomplished piece of scholarship takes us on a tour of ideas on love, imagination, time, ritual, poetry, philosophy and ethics.
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Cabe replaces Thrift with Gaventa
Sarah Gaventa from Scarlet Projects replaces Julia Thrift, the former director of Cabe Space, who resigned earlier this year
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People: RIBA appoint David Gloster as director of education
Gloster leaves London South Bank University where he was principal lecturer in architecture and design
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Davenport art graces Southwark Street
Ian Davenport's 48m-long mural is one of the largest permanent peices of public art in London
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Then there were ten
The battle to keep a specified product or use a new one is familiar territory for architects. This 10-strong shortlist for 100% Detail/RIBA Journal Innovation Award will give them new causes to champion.
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Archive TitlesTequila sunrise
In 1901 a remarkable book appeared, entitled Spanish-Colonial Architecture in Mexico.
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The smarties
A technological cornucopia known as Design + Smart Materials Bazaar will be on show as part of London’s Design Festival this month.
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In my opinion
In 1964, when the first Notting Hill Carnival took place, the notion of a genuinely multi-ethnic Britain was still a million miles away. Significantly the carnival introduced the Caribbean notion of street occupation for pure fun into a Britain where historically the only peacetime uses were economically driven street ...
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Archive TitlesOcean wave
Fledgling London firm IJP Corporation is staking a claim for attention at the 2nd Beijing Architecture Biennial with its beautiful diagram for Henderson Crossing, a bridge in Singapore (pictured).
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Archive TitlesLetter from Venice
Architects visiting Venice for the Biennale this month and the RIBA Conference in October will marvel at the major restoration projects, many of which have been masterminded by Venice in Peril (ViP).