All Culture articles – Page 23
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ReviewHow Lubetkin’s grand visions for Peterlee ended up dead in the water
Radio 4’s Britain in Their Sites explores Berthold Lubetkin’s failed ambitions for the post-war new town of Peterlee, County Durham
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ReviewFruits of the Vinex
In this meticulous and beautifully designed book, Jelte Boeijenga and Jeroen Mensink have set the field for a crucial debate on the future of housing policy, as applicable to Britain as to their native Netherlands
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ReviewThe Aram Gallery’s colour show helps us understand our polychrome world
Colour is an essential part of architecture – just go easy on the corporate ID
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ReviewSpare us the archaeologists
Peter Carl considers a claim that the Roman Forum site has been torn apart in the name of research
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ReviewPhotographs of Italian modernism are on a mission to influence
A magic period for Italian design is depicted in this exhibition at the Estorick Collection in London
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ReviewHebbelinck show depicts the joy and pain of architecture
Presenting the work of Pierre Hebbelinck poses questions about the nature of architectural exhibitions
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ReviewPenetrating the density of Paul Rudolph’s world
This collection of writings provides an insight into the thought processes that created Paul Rudolph’s complex work
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ReviewChilean architect finds a gap in the market
Alejandro Aravena of Elemental presented some inspiring ideas about social housing at a recent London School of Economics lecture
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ReviewWellcome Collection show unlocks the history of the insane asylum
Changing attitudes led to the transformation of mental health treatment environments in Vienna at the end of the 19th century
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ReviewArchitecture meets agriculture in Building Centre show on urban farming
London Yields exhibition betrays the shortcomings in thinking about food and the city
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ReviewA modern way to think about the modernists
In an excerpt from his new book, Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley challenges architects to embrace the progressive social impulse of Lubetkin, Lasdun and the Smithsons instead of the grotesque corporate or signature architecture that dominates the urban landscape
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ReviewMilan Furniture Fair 2009: Soft options for hard times
As the full force of the recession hits, there was talk in Milan of sustainable fabrics and multi-purpose designs, but plenty of bling still lingers in the furniture showrooms
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ReviewRichard Galpin 'Elevation' at Hales Gallery, London
Richard Galpin’s works in the Hales Gallery exhibition are the legatees of Matta-Clark’s 1970s urban blight. His cities of urban abandonment have evolved into Galpin’s 21st century metropolises - the City’s “Square Mile”, Manchester, Chicago and New York City- blighted by deficit finances, and asset stripped to rickety frameworks. ...
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ReviewPowell & Moya, masters of public service
The career of British architectural practice Powell & Moya had a strong ethical basis
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ReviewPark Hill’s troubled transformation
This gripping BBC television documentary charting English Heritage’s reluctant rescue of Europe’s largest listed building, Sheffield’s Park Hill, screens on May 1
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ReviewReview: The Architects Who Made London - The Smithsons
Max Risselda’s lecture on Alison and Peter Smithson was competent and well focused, but offered few new insights.
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ReviewRobert Stern’s study in practice
Yale’s architecture department has reopened, and BD was invited to cocktails with its dean, Robert AMStern
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ReviewEuropean design’s fin-de-siècle uncertainties
A new book on European design since 1985 traces the lines of its descent
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ReviewThe gathering darkness in the life of Sir John Soane
A new book about London’s Sir John Soane Museum sets it in the context of its creator’s difficult life
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ReviewStill in love with the architecture of Las Vegas
This new book of archive photographs sheds light on the making of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s classic 1972 text