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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 …
Essays - The Architectural Review
The AR looks beyond isolated buildings, commissioning in-depth theoretical essays that engage with the wider social, cultural and political context architecture sits in, as well as the impact and potential of architectural cultures and practices
Good rooms - The Architectural Review
For the December 2024 / January 2025 issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting. For some, the room is one designed by an architect; for others, it is depicted in an artwork. A few contributors offered reflections on the absence of satisfactory living spaces to ask: what makes a good room?
The Strategies of Mat-building - The Architectural Review
2013年8月13日 · To understand those decades of the last century, some context is needed. The link between Team 10’s ideas and French structuralism had already been analysed, demonstrating the belief of that generation of architects in the new social sciences, the application of relational thinking to the programme, and the legacy of linguistics to be seen in the re-organisation of architectonic and urban ...
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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.
The Big Rethink - The Architectural Review
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The problem with ornament - The Architectural Review
2015年9月3日 · The world’s most popular architect - by the most measurable means, entry tickets - is Antoni Gaudí. Twice as many people visit the Sagrada Família each year (3.2 million plus) as live in Barcelona (1.6 million) itself.
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
2014年4月9日 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
In the frame - The Architectural Review
2011年10月31日 · 2/15 An ‘amiable vicious circle’ from Vicious Circles and Infinity: An Anthology of Paradoxes by P Hughes and G Brecht, Penguin (1978). The closing of the circle creates a reciprocating structure with everyone supported in a sitting position without any furniture