All Book club review articles – Page 4
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FeaturesSix of the best twentieth-century houses
Elain Harwood picks some favourites from a new book for the Twentieth Century Society which she edited with Alan Powers – Houses: Regional practice and local character
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ReviewReview: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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ReviewReview: England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Ike Ijeh is impressed by this lavish, accessible survey of the nation
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ReviewBook Club review: The Architecture School Survival Guide
Gem Barton reviews an essential read for architecture freshers
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ReviewBook Club review: Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
John Pillar reviews a collection of essays that challenges architects to work for and learn from the creativity of the global south
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OpinionArchitecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future
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ReviewBook Club review: Enric Miralles from Left to Right
This intimate portrait reveals an architect grounded in reality, says Daniel Parker
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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 nine new titles
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ReviewBook Club review: Forty Ways to Think about Architecture
Gem Barton finds much to chew over in this timeless book
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ReviewBook Club review: The Evolution of Shell Lace Structure
This readable book explores one practice’s ingenious approach to efficient structural design, says Matthew Shanley
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ReviewBook Club review: Architectural Modelmaking
This generously illustrated guide shows models remain an important part of the design process, says Richard Timmins
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ReviewBook Club review: Michael Wilford - Selected Buildings and Projects
This detailed monograph focuses a critical eye on the breezy renders produced for so many projects, writes Benjamin Machin
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ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
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ReviewBook Club review: The Fabric of Place
This survey of the work of Allies Morrison is less monograph and more urban design primer, writes Kieran Gallagher
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ReviewHow do you solve a problem like education?
From making insurance sexy to strengthening hierarchies, Harriet Partridge tries to capture all the ideas flowing at a debate on how we should train architects
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ReviewBook Club review: Uncharted - The new landscapes of tourism
Architecture students at IE University explore the role design can play in triggering economic activity in a post-industrial landscape
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ReviewBook Club Review: 21 Things You Won't Learn in Architecture School
Students would learn a thing or two reading this book, says Vinesh Pomal
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
It might be history, but this book can be read as a blueprint for architects working today, writes Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewBook Club Review: Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century
Rare pictures of Hunstanton School are one of the highlights of this otherwise scholarly book, says Nicholas Vaughan Roberts
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ReviewBook Club review: Educating Architects
Educating Architects: How tomorrow’s practitioners will learn today. Neil Spiller Nic Clear, Thames Hudson, £29.95, 352pp