Architects Journal
3 March 2005
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A concrete column and slab structure with a glazed facade
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A Field Guide To Sprawl Dolores Hayden, Wiley 2004.128pp. £19.99
This is a simple dictionary of fashionable terminology employed by some real estate developers and agents in America. Each term is explained by a punchy paragraph and a strong visual representation. -
Apple cuts costs, while the price of spam rockets
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ARB anger as Lloyd's stance on PII questioned
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Berlin: a place to think about the past and future
I wrote last week about the architecture of Berlin. But by far the most intriguing part of the four-day trip was reflecting with my mother and the architect Georg Heinrichs, an old family friend, on times past. Buildings were evident but backgrounded as we walked, dined, taxied and drove around. I delighted in the clarity and confidence of his insight. -
Camden: Woodrow was warned, not banned
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Correction
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Creative engineering
We rummage through the bookshelves in a round-up of how to engineer sub-soil, night soil and suburban sprawl -
Disney v Dubailand
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Failing to crack CABE's design code confusion
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FEAR ITSELF
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Food for thought
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House: Architecture as Portraiture By Jack Quinan. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. 248 pp. £20
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Freeze frame
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Future forecasts
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High wired
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HIGHLAND CHIEF
The CABE-style body, Architecture and Design Scotland, has its work cut out attempting to shake-up the cliques north of the border. But, as Ed Dorrell discovers, new chief executive Sebastian Tombs is just the man for the job -
Hit or Swiss?
Westminster wants to upgrade London's less-than-salubrious Leicester Square.Will it see Avery Associates' proposed intervention as too radical? -
House and garden
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The manner in which we inhabit the land and the marks upon it which result are the raw materials of landscape architecture. Built by Robert Camlin to a design by Dominic Roberts, Camlin Lonsdale's studio resides in what is referred to as Mwynder Maldwyn or the 'gentleness of Montgomeryshire'. The building, constructed with locally sourced Douglas fir, Welsh oak and slate, provides a convivial home for the family of seven landscape architects who work here. -
Is Rothmire's Salisbury slur the real deal?
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Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture and Design E E Lewis, Prometheus Books, 2004. 328pp. £18.50
What a refreshing change, as they say. This is a book that oozes calm intelligence and has an ease of imparting knowledge that at once informs and avoids patronising its audience. -
New urban behaviour
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No alternative for heritage chief as crippling cuts went unaided
Two weeks ago (AJ 17.2.05) we published a letter from Alasdair Glass at English Heritage (EH) correcting a statement that Simon Allford had made in his column about the date when recession of windows became mandatory. I'm sure Simon didn't mind - he is a practitioner not a historian. Aspiring to be a Renaissance man of contemporary architecture, with wide-ranging interests and expertise, he may know a lot about many things but is unlikely to know everything about any of them. -
Out with the old. . .
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Postcard from Berlin
review - Egon Eiermann, 1904-1970, Architect and Designer At the Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, Klingelhöfstrasse 14, Berlin, until 16 May -
Practice praise
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Q & A - Chris Dyson Chris Dyson Architects
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spot the building
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Survival kit
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Sustainable Architecture: Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America Edited by Simon Guy and Steven A Moore, Spon Press, 2005. 269pp. £26
Yet another tome from the Newcastle home of new sustainability with a handsacross-the-sea research link with American and north European universities. Guy, together with Graham Farmer, who also has an essay here, is from Newcastle's School of Architecture. The two have collaborated in the past on the influential paper Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: the place of technology. Steven Moore is co-director of the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Sustainable Development. There is -
The Classical Orders of Architecture By Robert Chitham. Architectural Press, 2005. 228pp. £29.99
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The Eco-Design Handbook: A complete sourcebook for the home and office Alastair Fuad-Luke, Thames & Hudson, 2005. 352pp. £16.95
This is an updated edition of a classic resource tool for the green designer. If you are a concerned citizen, or simply want to buy into ethical social responsibility, then this book now contains 570 product listings informing you of the most minimal-energy, low-waste, carbon-efficient products. Some, however, are comical; such as the Epistola, which is a blade of steel with a hole through which you can insert a pencil. 'Using a pencil as a fulcrum, this exquisitely simple set of scales allow -
The future of adjudication is still unclear because of politics
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Use of Sewage Sludge in Construction Gunn, Dewhurst, Giorgetti et al, CIRIA 2005. 166pp. £45 (member price)
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Views on public art not so far apart
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While the old move with the times, the young dig in their heels
'The worst thing about the future, ' said a young friend of mine, 'is that it's so boring. It's always on television and, if you miss that, it's in the Sunday newspapers - what's really interesting is the past. The guys just can't get enough of it. Everyone I know is obsessed with shooting radar into the ground to find old tombs, digging up plague pits, reconstructing Roman cities, X-raying skulls, counting teeth?'. -
Wrong architect on the hill in Brazil
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