Architects Journal
30 March 2006
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AN EDUCATION REVOLUTION
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CONTRIBUTORS
Catherine Croft, who writes about the Isokon flats in this week's Building Study on pages 25-37, is the director of the Twentieth Century Society -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
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Ecological Architecture: A Critical History
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Georges Vantongerloo: A Retrospective
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ISOKON
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LETTERS
AN INSIDER'S VIEW IS NEEDED AT CZWG SCHEME -
MODERNISM'S PIONEERING HOUSING HAS NOT LEFT QUITE THE LEGACY PLANNED
In 1933, Wells Coates told the Listener: 'We cannot burden ourselves with permanent, tangible possessions as well as our real, new possessions of freedom, travel, new experience - in short, what we call life.' The tiny fly in the ointment is that 'what we call life', by Coates' definition, is wholly dependent on what we call wealth. Isokon, the 'ideal' housing development which Coates helped to create (see pages 25-37), was designed to serve a life if not of af'uence then at least of comfort; -
NEW BID FOR CLASSICAL SCHOOL
A fresh attempt to set up a school of Classical and traditional architecture is under way, the AJ can reveal. -
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TROUBLE
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PLASTIC FANTASTIC
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PRESTRESSED NET REINFORCEMENT SECURES THE DOMES AGAINST EARTHQUAKES
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RENEWAL POLICY
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Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future
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'TERROR'THREAT TO DEVELOPMENTS
The AJ has been handed a top-secret dossier from architecture's only known terrorist organisation - the Historic Buildings Liberation Front (HBLF). -
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
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THE RIGHT STUFF
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THE SKYLON'S THE LIMIT
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TOWERING INNUENDO
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UNION NORTH IN BLOCKWORK
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WHERE THERE'S A WILL
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