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Architects at Play (2023) – Review
David Malaud, Architects at Play Exhibition, Pavilion Sicli, Geneva, 27 April–11 June 2023. Photo © Guillaume Robert. What is the reason for playing if not to weave relationships with the world? How...
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Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London (2023)...
Throughout this book, Matthew Wells sets his face against seeing architectural models as objects in themselves. His preoccupation is with their many uses and, therefore, meanings, which gives...
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Material Reform, Building for a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – Review
Have you ever considered where your architecture comes from? That is, where the materials that form your home are from and have been produced. Many would be hard-pressed to give an answer to this...
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Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review
Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect is a welcome and necessary publication. Its overview of the ideas and career of Denise Scott Brown establishes the rich foundations of her...
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Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review
Poetry and Architecture exhibition, Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, May 26 – 3 Sep 2023. Photo by Andrew Barrell. The concluding section of Hegel’s Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics considers ‘the general...
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Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
Philosophy has long played an influential part in architectural practice and discourse. In the last twenty years, several new publications have started to trace the histories of this phenomenon. Some,...
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Designs on Democracy (2022) – Review
‘This is not a book in which material has been selected on the basis of taste; quite the contrary. These are not buildings or personalities with which it has been easy to empathise, and I hope that...
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Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review
Paul Goesch, Visionary design for a temple complex, c. 1920–21, watercolour, gouache, and glaze, over pen and black ink. Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal,...
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Owen Jones and the V&A (2023) and Style and Solitude (2023) – Review
Now remembered almost only for The Grammar of Ornament (1856), Owen Jones, architect, designer, writer, publisher was regarded in his lifetime as one of the greats of British architectural and design...
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Raffaello. Nato architetto (2023) – Review
Raffaello. Nato architetto, Palladio Museum, Vicenza, April 7 – 9 July 2023. © Lorenzo Ceretta – CISA Andrea Palladio. Architectural history is a delicate matter when it comes to exhibitions:...
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The Renewal of Dwelling (2023) – Review
Elli Mosayebi, Michael Kraus, The Renewal of Dwelling. European Housing Construction 1945-1975 (2023), Triest. Dwelling is on the political and architectural agenda of every European country in...
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The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review
The Polyhedrists is described as ‘a history of the relationship between art and geometry in early modern period’.[1] Despite it being a relatively short book, it offers a complex and confronting view...
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The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review
There is an ongoing debate within the field of theology and the arts concerning to what degree ‘theology’ must guide the discussion. Those on one side of the divide argue that unless the terms are...
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Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
As displayed in T Space, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, House for Two Friends, Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York, USA, 1981. Coloured pencil , 711 × 1016 mm. Copyright Susan Wides, Courtesy of ‘T’ Space...
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Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital...
In Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers Sociologist David Turnbull reflects on the way technologies of drawing shape thought and action.[1] Cathedrals got built prior to international agreement on...
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Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
Geoffrey Bawa, the Sri Lankan architect who died in 2003 at 83 years old in his native Columbo, has been justly celebrated for the skill with which he integrated modern architectural forms and...
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