Tag: Architecture

  • Book review: Heterotopic visions

    Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modelling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory by David Grahame Shane London: Wiley, 2006 Increasingly, contemporary artists, as much as architects and urban planners, have to grope for a clearer understanding of the nature of cities…

  • Bauhaus: 1919-1933

    The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was once the decoration of buildings. They were inseparable parts of the great art of building. Today, they exist in isolation, from which they can be…

  • Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects

    London: Black Dog Publishing Ltd, 2007

  • Maggie’s Zaha

    On 3 November, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown opened the Maggie’s Centre for Cancer Care in his own constituency at Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland. This building has been designed (expenses only – no fees) by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born…

  • Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 6 April-23 July 2006 The catalogue promotion for this remarkable exhibition of early 20th-century design pioneers suggests that the contemporary built environment was ‘largely shaped by Modernism’. This is simply not true. The reality was…

  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2005

    For the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year

  • MVRDV KM3: Proposals for Chinese Cities

    Shanghai Gallery of Art 2 July-21 August 2005

  • Finland: Modern Architectures in History – book review

    The awakening of Modernism in the 1880s in Finland, as in other European nations, was first felt through the visual arts and literature, manifested (post-Charles Darwin) as a growth in interest in Naturalism and the perceived effects of an increasingly…

  • A new building for St Catz

    Walking around Oxford today, it is remarkable how little the centre of the city has changed in the last 50 years. The sweeping curve of The High, punctuated by the single tree in the garden of All Souls College, remains…

  • Robert Mallet-Stevens

    Centre Pompidou, Paris 27 April–29 August 2005