All Book club review articles – Page 8
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ReviewBook Club Review: Sharp words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp, by Dennis Sharp and Paul Finch
A welcome addition to the Architectural Association catalogue
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ReviewBook Club Review: Birmingham Town Hall, by Anthony Peers and Frank Salmon
A passionate account of the building’s construction and history
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ReviewBook Club Review: Long Island Modernism 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski
An important historical account of the growth of modernism on Long Island
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art by Fiona MacCarthy
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art Fiona MacCarthy Royal College of Art 288 pp, £40.00 At its foundation in 1837, the Government School of Design was established at Somerset House with just 17 students to form the world’s first publicly funded school of ...
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ReviewBook Club Review: Hotel Lobbies and Lounges by Tom Avermaete and Anne Massey
Concrete case studies, critical essays and the 1990’s film Pretty Woman
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ReviewBook Club Review: Lincoln Center Inside Out, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Nicholas de Klerk looks at a book that is as large and as heavy as the building it describes
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ReviewBook Club Review: James Wyatt: Architect to George III, by John Martin Robinson
A detailed and fascinating narrative of Wyatt’s extraordinary life
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ReviewBook Club Review: Naked Architecture by Valerio Paolo Mosco
Nicholas Roberts struggles to see ‘naked’ as a potentially useful metaphor for architecture