Tag: Michael Spens
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Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review
To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
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Michael Spens: obituary
The architect, writer, and former publisher/editor of Studio International, Michael Patrick Spens of Wormiston, Knight 1st Class, Order of the Lion of Finland (for services to architecture), has died aged 74.
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Anticipating Avatar?
Lynn Chadwick: Works 1969–1988 Beaux Arts Gallery, London 19 May–19 June 2010
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George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 18 February–15 May 2011
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V&A Dundee: Blueprint on a tidal surge
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s new policy for generating and catalysing satellite ventures outside London has taken off with a dramatic proposal to create a new building at Dundee, Scotland. The initiative was driven by Professor Georgina Follett, Vice-Principal of…
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“Is Small Beautiful?” 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces
1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces V&A Museum, London 15 June–30 August 2010
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Fiona Banner: Harrier and Jaguar. Moving installation art fast forward
Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, London 28 June 2010–3 January 2011
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Brad Pitt’s Initiative. Making It Right: New Houses at New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
Brad Pitt’s Make it Right housing neighbourhood reconstruction initiative for New Orleans is not the first ever solution to follow a catastrophe, but it is the most ingenious
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Book review: A Year in Architecture
Compiled by Claudia Stauble and Jonathan Lee Fox Prestel, London and New York, 2009
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Book review: Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier
Subtitled Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity, this book is an important new addition to the discourse, and theory of architecture, art, and visual studies, as the publisher rightly avers, and not merely architecture. The author pursues the issue…
