All Culture articles – Page 6
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FeaturesWhat architects can learn from Camden's heyday
Under Sydney Cook, the borough built some of the best housing in Britain. Mark Swenarton, author of a new book on Cook’s Camden, assesses what we should emulate and what we should not
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NewsRafael Moneo wins inaugural Soane Medal
Pritzker-winning architect to deliver lecture in Soane’s footsteps
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NewsPicture special: Seeing red inside RIBA North
Look around Broadway Malyan’s new Liverpool Waterfront exhibition space and offices
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ReviewReview: Architecture room at the RA Summer Exhibition
Michael Collins on the exhibition curated by Farshid Moussavi
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ReviewBrutalism: Where did it all go wrong?
In a crowded field, this exhibition has much to contribute and deserves a bigger platform than the RA’s architecture ‘corridor’, says Daniel Elsea
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ReviewSacred Geometries: An exhibition in search of an angle
Richard Gatti reviews a show where architectural photographers are cast as high priests, but finds them more interested in shapes than symbolism
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NewsRIBA sets opening date for new Liverpool architecture centre
City Gallery set to stage first show in June after sign-off issues delay opening by 10 months
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ReviewCommunal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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NewsExhibition to put competing Mies van der Rohe and Stirling visions for No1 Poultry under spotlight
RIBA show will use architects’ differing proposals for City of London site to explore their approaches to work
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FeaturesTwo years after Patty Hopkins ‘vanished’, women are still being airbrushed out of architecture
The issues raised by a new and wide-ranging exploration of gender in the profession are as relevant to men as they are to women, explains co-editor James Benedict Brown
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NewsOrdinary to create architecture's origin myths at RA
Royal Academy unveils autumn architecture programme
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NewsUnesco grants key recognition to tranche of Le Corbusier works
Seventeen ‘masterpieces’ spanning three continents granted World Heritage staus
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ReviewPerfecting a language of architecture that the 99% can understand
If everyone is an architect, how come language is such a barrier, asks Daniel Elsea
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ReviewA distressing history of cultural genocide
From ‘Bomber’ Harris to Isis, this new documentary, The Destruction of Memory, takes an even-handed approach to its appraisal of vandals, says Richard Gatti
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ReviewWhat does architecture mean in places like Syria and the Calais Jungle?
Joanna Day is impressed by the Architecture Foundation’s refugee festival
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ReviewReview: RA Summer Exhibition architecture room
There are moments of richness in this year’s architecture room, but there is also a great deal of mediocrity, finds MJ Wells
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ReviewWe're in the middle of a housing crisis, but RIBA's saccharine show offers no serious solutions
The perennially moribund Royal Institute belatedly weighs in on Britain’s acute housing crisis with a let-them-eat-cake exhibition of sickly home sweet homes, says Phil Pawlett Jackson
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ReviewPeter Aldington reminds us that we need slow architecture
Good architecture takes the kind of time that’s in short supply these days, says Balazs Endrodi
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AnalysisWhat the LSE's Saw Swee Hock can teach us about procuring brilliant buildings
Pulling off a coup like O’Donnell Tuomey’s Stirling finalist is not easy but the story is worth studying, says Simon Carne
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ReviewHigh Rise and Hinterland: Modernism's morality plays
JG Ballard’s brutalising tower and Gillespie Kidd Coia’s abandoned seminary were both designed to usher in a better world. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks what went wrong