All Book club review articles
OpinionOverheating buildings are architects’ responsibility too
It’s time to rethink your attitudes to thermal comfort - if not for the sake of the planet, then for the sake of your insurance premiums, writes Eleanor Jolliffe.
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Review
Review | The Lebanese House: conservation and urban catastrophe collide in V&A’s new installation
Ben Flatman speaks to architect Annabel Karim Kassar about how history, identity and loss are interwoven in her latest work about a house in Beirut.
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Review
What is a queer space?
Stephen Molloy is entertained and impressed by the tender beauty of new RIBA publication Queer Spaces but is troubled by the lack of a clear definition of what they are. Co-author and editor Adam Nathaniel Furman explains why the book resists being pinned down.
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Features
The bridges every architect should know
Marcus Binney leads a tour of the world’s most inspiring crossings
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News
RA announces biggest investment in architecture this century
Two prizes and major new Chipperfield gallery spaces to be devoted to architecture
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Features
The mysterious Indian architecture that's vanishing with barely a murmur
India was once covered by stepwells - a typology unique to the country - but they are now facing extinction. A new book by Victoria Lautman aims to draw international attention to these fascinating structures
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Opinion
Gentrification may be brutalism’s best hope
What’s happening at the Balfron has infuriated many but don’t be too quick to criticise, cautions Owen Hopkins. The alternative for many brutalist gems is oblivion
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Opinion
Why I welcome the rise of east London
Gentrification is not all bad, argues Charles Saumarez Smith, a long-standing resident of the East End
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Features
Can you design one of the world’s most famous buildings and be forgotten?
You’ve slaved for years over window details before finally getting to work on the project your grandchildren will talk about. But will anyone else remember you as they take a selfie in front of it? Eternal fame is far from guaranteed, cautions Jonathan Glancey
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Features
From the spoon to the city: Richard Rogers on Alvar Aalto
In his introduction to a new book on Aalto, Richard Rogers hails the Finnish architect’s sensitivity to detail at every level
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Features
How business park architecture has traduced London's skyline
In this extract from his new book, Jonathan Glancey accuses leading architects of souring world-class views with a grubby provincialism
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Review
Communal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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Features
Should we be celebrating or lamenting Glasgow's 'renaissance'?
Glasgow once built more tower blocks than any city in Britain. In a demolition programme of similar ambition, a third have have been lost in the last decade. It’s time to reappraise the whole enterprise, says Johnny Rodger, co-author of a new book on the subject
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Review
Book Club review: How to Read Towns & Cities
An appealing idea doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, finds Zac Carey
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Review
Book Club Review: Studio Craft & Technique for Architects
Every architect will find this handy guide to practical skills useful, says Matthew Elsinor
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Features
The tragic myth of Scotland's modernist masterpiece
As a ruin, Gillespie, Kidd Coia’s Cardross Seminary has become a cult object. But the folklore obscures a much richer story, argues the author of a definitive new book
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Features
Two years after Patty Hopkins ‘vanished’, women are still being airbrushed out of architecture
The issues raised by a new and wide-ranging exploration of gender in the profession are as relevant to men as they are to women, explains co-editor James Benedict Brown
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Review
Book Club review: Big Saves: Heroic transformations of great landmarks
Benjamin Fallows thinks this book’s ‘pamphlety’ delivery obscures its important message on conservation
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Review
Why can’t architects write in a language normal people can understand?
A good book on a great architect is let down by its impenetrable prose, laments Balazs Endrodi
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Review
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