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Tony Fretton
BooksI am reading the A+U on Peter Zumthor, a book of detailed photographs of Gaudí’s Casa Mila, Eileen Harris’s book, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s The Dutch Domestic Scene and Aalto’s complete work. There’s also a Dutch dictionary to help with my language classes, ...
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FeaturesRenato Benedetti
BooksDavid Remnick’s King of the World revealed the socio-political context of Muhammad Ali’s greatness — will any future athlete affect politics and society so profoundly? I’m now reading Peter Robb’s Midnight in Sicily before visiting the island. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography and Clerkenwell Tales are a fabulously full evocation ...
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Sharp End: Joining forces
Even before Gordon Brown pledged £43 billion of increased funding for education and healthcare, we at Llewelyn Davies were seeking to exploit our reputation in the healthcare market and expand into the burgeoning schools sector.
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FeaturesSwitching on to a new cad program
Graphisoft has just launched version 9 of its ArchiCad design and modelling package. Here, two users check it out and give us their verdictsGraphisoft has just launched version 9 of its ArchiCad design and modelling package. Here, two users check it out and give us their verdicts
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FeaturesDIY for architects
Fed up and frustrated with the lack of integrated building systems, Cartwright Pickard formed a brave new business venture with a manufacturer to simplify housebuilding.
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FeaturesDaniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind has curated a season of films for the Barbican to tie in with the exhibition of his work. He explains his choices.
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FeaturesMichael Manser
BooksI read a lot and in recent months biographies of notables in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Four biographies of Wren, the best His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood ; two of Pepys; also of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, luminaries of the American bid for independence. Both ...
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Sharp End: Techno teamwork
Picture the scene: the first technical meeting for the new project. The typical opening gambit is “which version of AutoCAD will you use to send us your files?” Oh, come on. Why do we always have to use the lowest common denominator? Doesn’t everyone realise this is an inefficient use ...
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FeaturesQuick on the draw
Three-dimensional drawing package SketchUp is proving increasingly popular by virtue of its sheer simplicity. As developer @LastSoftware launches the fourth version, Aedas designer Bradley Luke takes a test drive
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The great software debate
Are management software companies trying to push inappropriate wares, or are architects failing to make their needs clear?
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Charles Jencks
BooksMy reading is often project-directed, and now I am continuing with the Universe Project (to give it a modest title). So Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything is an interesting popular attempt at the genre, while David Christian’s recent Maps of Time, An Introduction to Big History is ...
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