Typology: Prison - The Architectural Review
WEBJun 11, 2018 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. To confine, secure, rehabilitate or punish: the prison has several, sometimes contradictory aims, but however humane its approach, penal architecture is essentially cruel. The Marquis de Sade wanted to beat his brains out against them, Jean …
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 16, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene. Ando-reputations-illustration-architectural-review-lili-zarzycki. , Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that …
From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets
WEBSep 7, 2021 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence and the rise of capitalism. Street lighting might seem like a product of modernity, but there is little new about it. The Romans illuminated their city streets at night and ...
Philip Johnson’s AT&T: The Post Post-Deco skyscraper
WEBThe trouble with nine days’ wonders in architecture is that buildings take more than nine days to erect. Before AT&T’s distinctive silhouette was any more than a steel outline against the sky, the media abandoned it and ran across the continent to drool over Michael Graves’ Post-Deco cube in Portland, Oregon (AR November 1982).
Air Apparent: Pneumatic Structures - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 3, 2014 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. First posited in the 1960s, the idea of pneumatic structures as a progressive and lightweight alternative to ‘normalʼ construction has renewed relevance to the current re-evaluation of energy use and new forms of climatically responsive envelopes.
Interview: Peter Eisenman - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 26, 2013 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Peter Eisenman is one of the most significant architects and theorists practising today, notable for his involvement with Derrida’s Deconstructivist project and his pioneering use of computer-aided design. His major buildings include the Wexner ...
The mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier …
WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier compared. Colin Rowe’s essay on The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Palladio and Le Corbusier compared. Originally published in AR March 1947, this piece was republished online in August 2010.
Reinterpreting tradition: Hassan Fathy - The Architectural Review
WEBJan 18, 1990 · On the occassion of Hassan Fathy’s death in 1990, James Steele reflects on Fathy’s search for the true meaning of tradition. Originally published in AR January 1990 as an obituary, this piece was republished online in February 2020, along with a piece on Hassan Fathy published in AR Feburary 2020 on Soil. At a time when pluralism is ...
Building Seagram: A Memoir of Mies and Modernism
WEBSep 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 …
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) - The Architectural Review
WEBJan 31, 2013 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Filippo Brunelleschi had a wicked sense of humour and was one of the first great modern architects. He was also the only one to sit firmly in Florence in the early 15th century. His first biographer, Antonio Manetti, who actually knew him, describes ...
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