All articles by Robert Harbison – Page 2
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Top 50 Films for Architects: Shoeshine
Real life locations sets the tone for a brutal taste of life in a juvenile prison
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Top 50 Films for Architects: Shoeshine
Real life locations sets the tone for a brutal taste of life in a juvenile prison
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Top 50 Films for Architects: An Actor's Revenge
This week we launch a new series of 50 films that demonstrate this potential, chosen not because they’re the best of all, or my favourites, though many are, but for their intimations of richer sorts of space
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Top 50 Films for Architects: An Actor's Revenge
This week we launch Robert Harbison’s new series of 50 films that demonstrate this potential, chosen for their intimations of richer sorts of space
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Review
Somerset: North and Bristol (Buildings of England)
New discoveries illuminate an updated edition of Pevsner’s Somerset guide
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Cheshire (Buildings of England)
The new edition of the Pevsner guide steps beyond its architectural remit through sheer enthusiasm
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Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
This soap-opera-style biography of Bernini tries rather too hard to be interesting
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Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Susie Harries’ biography sheds light on the seminal architectural writer’s troubled depths
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The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
A new Capability Brown biography is too discursive for Robert Harbison
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Building a Library 50: Genius Loci by Christian Norberg-Schulz
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 49: Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, edited by Michael W Meister and MA Dhaky
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 48: Discourses on Architecture by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 47: Civilsation: A Personal View, by Kenneth Clark
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 46: An Introduction to Nigerian Traditional Architecture
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 45: Heavenly Mansions
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 44: The Monuments of Historic Cairo
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library
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Building a Library 43: Companion Guide to Venice, by Hugh Honour
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 42: Vers Une Architecture, by Le Corbusier
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 41: City of Lingering Splendour, by John Blofeld
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.
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Building a Library 40: The Prefabricated Home, by Colin Davies
Robert Harbison picks 50 books that should feature in any architectural library.