All Books articles – Page 4
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ReviewHow Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built A Great Museum
This biography of Foster’s Sainsbury Centre is an ideal introduction to an unusual design
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ReviewRadical Postmodernism: Architectural Design
Postmodernism may be having a revival, but let’s look ahead to Fat, not back at Jencks
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ReviewPhaidon’s The Art Museum
The publisher’s propensity towards the large-format art book has reached its natural climax with this global survey of artworks
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ReviewNew account of museums’ changing role
This weighty tome contains 170 examples of museums that have become tourist attraction
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ReviewCinemas in Britain: A History of Cinema Architecture
Gray’s book documents the architecture of British cinema from the first dioramas of the mid-19th century
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ReviewAdjaye Africa Architecture
David Adjaye has undertaken a monumental project to document every African capital city.
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ReviewDubuffet as Architect
A new book shows how Jean Dubuffet’s art developed into full-scale architecture
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ReviewGiles Gilbert Scott: His Son’s View
The text of a 1962 lecture by Richard Gilbert Scott sheds light on a prolific family
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ReviewThe Art-Architecture Complex
The mutual influence of art and architecture has had little benefit to either
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ReviewGhost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project
Iain Sinclair’s new book is a sprawling global trawl of the built environment
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ReviewAround and About Stock Orchard Street, edited by Sarah Wigglesworth
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House war stories impress far more than her feminist theory
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ReviewNikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Susie Harries’ biography sheds light on the seminal architectural writer’s troubled depths
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ReviewAll Over the Map by Michael Sorkin
Despite its focus on US tragedies, Michael Sorkin’s new book is very entertaining
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ReviewThe Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
A new Capability Brown biography is too discursive for Robert Harbison
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ReviewArchitecture in Uniform: Designing & Building for the Second World War
The story of architects in the second world war has some surprising twists
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ReviewAi Weiwei’s Blog, Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
Ai Weiwei’s compelling blog shows the tensions between the internet and a totalitarian state.
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ReviewShould future hospitals be small towns?
A work surveying the design of contemporary healthcare facilities posits hospitals as civic spaces but misses a few key examples
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ReviewDiener & Diener monograph
A monograph showcasing 40 of the Swiss practice’s works attests to its urban engagement
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ReviewOpening up the envelope for students
Watts’ new book is well suited for both students and young practicing architects.
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ReviewGetting right under the skin of modern construction materials
Extensive look at new materials in this Detail edition of the Construction Manual for Polymers & Membranes.