Tag: Architecture

  • Andrea Ponsi: ‘I draw, therefore I am’

    The architect, designer, writer and painter on how he went from building his own shelter in a South American palm grove to building furniture from copper piping, why the role of an artist or architect is to create harmony, and…

  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2011: Architecture Room

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 7 June–15 August 2011

  • Phyllis Lambert and the Canadian Centre for Architecture

    Phyllis Lambert is now in her 81st year and her long life is particularly associated with two buildings: the Seagram Building in New York and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. In the creation of both, she played…

  • Museums in the 21st century

    The Louisiana Museum in Denmark offers a quiet, liminal space for contemplation, isolated from everyday reality.1 It is a place where a modern, circular white gallery turns to a wooded landscape of sculptures, overlooking The Sound towards Sweden in a…

  • The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus

    In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achievement is celebrated, among other accolades, by a large-scale colour brochure, which completes the picture. This is not the first time that a publication on…

  • Architecture Not Now

    As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by both practising architects and by teachers and theorists appears to be more than ever transitory

  • Book review: Real Baroque. The Baroque Architecture of Sicily

    The Baroque Architecture of Sicily Maria Giuffrè, Photographs by Melo Minnella London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2008 This work is timely in so far as it forms part of the broad revision of architectural history that is underway in the…

  • That Man from Rio: Celebrating Oscar Niemeyer’s Centennial

    Considered to be Brazil’s most important architect, Oscar Niemeyer (b.1907) is also a major figure in the development of modern architecture internationally. He has become a symbol for his country for many reasons: he designed the national capital, Brasília, founded…

  • Book review: Pallasmaa phenomenon

    Archipelago: Essays on Architecture for Juhani Pallasmaa Peter MacKeith (ed) Helsinki: Rakennustieto/Building Information Ltd, 2006

  • Book review: Marvellous Melbourne

    Design City Melbourne. Leon van Schaik. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the ‘World City’ genre beyond those established by Academy Group in the 1990s…