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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Folio: Sarah Wigglesworth’s dining tables - The Architectural Review
Sep 26, 2018 · <p>These drawings of a dining table formed the basis for Sarah Wigglesworth’s design of the Straw Bale House (2001)</p>
Building Seagram: A Memoir of Mies and Modernism
Sep 24, 2013 · As a ‘memoir’ the voice is authoritative, the facts established by research, and the story fascinating. A prologue describes the lead-up to the selection of Mies − the history of the Seagram Company from its beginnings as a single distillery built by Samuel Bronfman in Ville LaSalle near Montreal in 1924, to its consolidation as the Distillers Corporation Seagrams Limited four years later.
Students - The Architectural Review
Every building we feature has a story to tell. Whether we explore a new intervention that has shifted the fabric of the city surrounding it, pull back the covers on architectural prize-giving, or consider the possible replicable impact of a tiny prototype, every project – large or small, good or bad – contributes to an archive of the most culturally significant and architecturally ...
The nature of Andy Goldsworthy - The Architectural Review
Originally published in AR February 1988, this piece was published online in March 2018 in connection with the publication of AR April 2018 on Rethinking the Rural. Partly to recapture the wellsprings of art, the original awe at nature’s variety and sense of oneness with the universe found in primeval art, many sculptors, particularly in …
Typology | Essays | The Architectural Review
In the AR’s Typology series, each building type is spliced open and its entrails closely examined. We collect the histories, evolutions and contemporary examples of each building type in one place: a complete short history of everything from housing estates to market halls, and prisons to public toilets, illustrated with case studies.
Cedric Price (1934–2003) - The Architectural Review
Jan 5, 2018 · Today it’s quite hard to get a grip on the legacy of Price, who died in 2003. This is in part because there’s so little built work left. Inter-Action was itself demolished after Price fought against the Twentieth Century Society and English Heritage, who wanted it kept, meaning that his only significant extant built work is the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo.
The secret photography of Le Corbusier - The Architectural Review
Oct 31, 2013 · One series was taken on board the SS Conte Biancamano in August 1936, as Corb returned to Europe from Brazil. In semi-abstract shots of all the on-deck apparatus, he revels in the machine aesthetic that the Purists admired and that had permeated photography for a decade or more.
Michael Graves' Portland Building - The Architectural Review
<p>Now facing the threat of demolition, the AR recalls a time when Graves’ project was set to become ‘Portland’s Eiffel Tower’ </p>
A Sense of Perspective: The Crucial Role of Architecture in Painting
Aug 6, 2014 · <p>A subtle and sophisticated exhibition at The National Gallery challenges the notion of architecture’s background role in painting, vividly revealing the importance it held for the artists of the Italian Renaissance</p>