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Distance lends enchantment
18-May-2013
Andrew Mead is left with feelings of fascination and guilt by David Maisel’s photographs of American landscapes that have been given extreme makeovers by man -
Distance lends enchantment
18-May-2013
Andrew Mead is left with feelings of fascination and guilt by David Maisel’s photographs of American landscapes that have been given extreme makeovers by man -
La Malcontenta 1924-1939: Tumult and Order
26-Nov-2012
Part scrapbook, part memoir, part evocation of Malcontenta’s renaissance, this book may be insubstantial, but it has charm, not least because of the many illustrations, writes Andrew Mead -
The Life and Death of Buildings
17-Nov-2011
The cyclical nature of destruction and construction in architecture is a fascinating topic to explore, but Joel Smith’s new book leaves readers wanting more, writes Andrew Mead -
Colour, line, geometry, logic: Max Bill at Annely Juda
2-Jun-2011
The sober work of polymath architect Max Bill – a child of the Bauhaus and peer of Mondrian – should help fill a gap in British art appreciation, writes Andrew Mead -
‘The true spirit of the Bauhaus’
31-Mar-2011
A new book uses personal insights to lay bare the quirky personalities of six key Bauhaus figures, but which six? By Andrew Mead -
George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day
3-Mar-2011
George Shaw’s paintings show the gloominess and beauty of Tile Hill, an unspectacular Coventry suburb, writes Andrew Mead -
Saemangeum: The vision of a city
4-Nov-2010
The design for a new island city in South Korea perfectly showcases the Architecture Research Unit’s rich imagination and ambition, writes Andrew Mead -
Chandigarh: Ernst Scheidegger's previously unseen photographs
3-Jun-2010
Ernst Scheidegger’s previously unpublished photos reveal the daily lives of the inhabitants of Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s most significant urbanism project, writes Andrew Mead -
Andrew Mead: St Augustine’s Church
10-Sep-2009
Critic Andrew Mead selects J L Pearson’s St. Augustine’s Church -
Patrick Caulfield at Pallant House Gallery
17-Apr-2009
Patrick Caulfield’s paintings trace the presence of people long gone, writes Andrew Mead -
City and Structure by HG Esch - Critic's Choice
9-Apr-2009
A rather generic book of micro-details and megacities only half excites Andrew Mead -
The Grand Tour reexamined - Critic's Choice
27-Mar-2009
Grand tours get a lively examination in the Yale Architectural Journal, writes Andrew Mead -
George Shaw at the Wilkinson Gallery - Critic’s Choice
19-Mar-2009
George Shaw offers a painfully bleak vision of Britain’s forgotten corners, writes Andrew Mead -
Paul Rudolph's rehabilitation - Critic's Choice
11-Mar-2009
Paul Rudolph’s architecture is undergoing a welcome rehabilitation, writes Andrew Mead -
Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten - Critic's Choice
4-Mar-2009
Detail trumps bling for Swiss firm Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, says Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice: Ian Hamilton Finlay's gardens
February 2009
Ian Hamilton Finlay's gardens are sensual, yet filled with meaning, writes Andrew Mead -
Critics Choice - Philip Johnson transcripts
16-Jan-2009
Transcripts from beyond the grave give entertaining insights into the life of Philip Johnson, says Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice - Vaughan Hart's monograph on John Vanbrugh
28-Aug-2008
Vaughan Hart’s monograph on the colleague of Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh, impresses Andrew Mead -
Critic’s Choice - Parks
13-Feb-2008
This book of large parks proves the potential of once-toxic landscapes, says Andrew Mead -
Catherine Yass
6-Feb-2008
Catherine Yass has found beauty in China’s monolithic Three Gorges Dam, says Andrew Mead -
The Estorick Collection
30-Jan-2008
The Estorick is home to a timeless collection of modern Italian art, writes Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice - Hidden Utopias
23-Jan-2008
A new book unearths hidden utopias in the strangest of places, finds Andrew Mead -
Spiluttini's Photographs.
18-Jan-2008
Margherita Spiluttini’s photographs reveal hidden depths, says Andrew Mead. -
Review - Book - The Shape of a City
10-Jan-2008
Julien Gracq's study of Nantes evokes memories of home for Andrew Mead. -
Critic's Choice - Kellier
20-Dec-2007
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Andrew Mead takes a look at the past. -
Critic's Choice - Luisa Lambri
13-Dec-2007
Critic’s Choice Luisa Lambri’s photos elude definition, says Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice - The British Library
30-Nov-2007
Critic’s Choice - The British Library’s new show uncovers rare gems, says Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice - 15.11.07
19-Nov-2007
Paintings of interiors should not be taken at face value, says Andrew Mead -
Critic's Choice - Desai
31-Oct-2007
Critic’s Choice Whatever the show, Desai’s gallery is worth a visit, says Andrew Mead -
Review - Critic's Choice - Desai
31-Oct-2007
Critic’s Choice Whatever the show, Desai’s gallery is worth a visit, says Andrew Mead -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
12-Jul-2007
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5-Jul-2007
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28-Jun-2007
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21-Jun-2007
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14-Jun-2007
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7-Jun-2007
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31-May-2007
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24-May-2007
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17-May-2007
Frank Thiel: A Berlin Decade Hatje Cantz, 2006. £39.99. -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
17-May-2007
The dapper gentleman pictured above is Theodore Jacobsen, and half-unrolled in his right hand is a drawing of the west front of London's Foundling Hospital on the fringe of Bloomsbury - built in 1752, demolished in 1928, and his best-known work. -
THE ATMOSPHERE IS BENIGN, AS IF IT WERE SOME OLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
17-May-2007
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10-May-2007
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3-May-2007
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26-Apr-2007
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19-Apr-2007
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19-Apr-2007
Though its building by Frank Gehry must be a mixed blessing, the Vitra Design Museum exerts an inuence far beyond its Weil am Rhein site with its substantial travelling exhibitions - the Design Museum, the Lighthouse, and Manchester's Cube have all staged them in the past. Given Vitra's remit, they tend to feature objects more than architecture, but in the absence of equally ambitious home-grown initiatives, we shouldn't complain. Next year Liverpool hosts Vitra's big Le Corbusier show; ... -
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12-Apr-2007
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5-Apr-2007
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15-Mar-2007
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8-Mar-2007
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8-Mar-2007
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1-Mar-2007
One benefit of belonging to the Twentieth Century Society (C20 Society) is to receive occasionally the volumes in its Twentieth Century Architecture series: themed collections of usually erudite essays that are well illustrated and referenced. -
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22-Feb-2007
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22-Feb-2007
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15-Feb-2007
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8-Feb-2007
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1-Feb-2007
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1-Feb-2007
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25-Jan-2007
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25-Jan-2007
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18-Jan-2007
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11-Jan-2007
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21-Dec-2006
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14-Dec-2006
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14-Dec-2006
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7-Dec-2006
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30-Nov-2006
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23-Nov-2006
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23-Nov-2006
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16-Nov-2006
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EXHIBITION
16-Nov-2006
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9-Nov-2006
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EXHIBITION
9-Nov-2006
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2-Nov-2006
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26-Oct-2006
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12-Oct-2006
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5-Oct-2006
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28-Sep-2006
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21-Sep-2006
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CARDROSS
14-Sep-2006
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14-Sep-2006
New Canaan in Connecticut, just an hour's train ride from New York, was where Philip Johnson built his Glass House in 1949 (see picture). But that wasn't just a one-off. In the postwar years, this small New England town became a Modernist Mecca for architects, as Johnson, Breuer, John Johansen, Eliot Noyes and others built more than 60 houses in its vicinity. -
Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams By Mark Kingwell. Yale University Press, 2006. 235pp. £16.99
14-Sep-2006
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7-Sep-2006
Previous Liverpool Art Biennials have been hit-and-miss affairs, but embracing as they do a wide variety of venues in the city, they can explore the interaction of architecture and art in pertinent ways. This year's event, running from 16 September to 26 November ( www. biennial. com), sees the opening of a new permanent exhibition complex called Greenland Street, which brings together three former industrial buildings - the Coach Shed, the Furnace and the Blade Factory. -
BURDETT READY TO UNVEIL VENICE BIENNALE
31-Aug-2006
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31-Aug-2006
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17-Aug-2006
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EXHIBITION
17-Aug-2006
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3-Aug-2006
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1-Aug-2006
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1-Aug-2006
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27-Jul-2006
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20-Jul-2006
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20-Jul-2006
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13-Jul-2006
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22-Jun-2006
In the grounds of William Cecil's Elizabethan showpiece, Burghley House, on the Lincolnshire-Northamptonshire border near Stamford, is a 5ha sculpture garden. The latest exhibition there, continuing until 29 October, is called Heavenly Bodies, and with a few exceptions - one being Nick Horrigan's ramshackle timber ziggurat, lit inside by bre optics - the contents are pretty dire. -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
15-Jun-2006
What's pictured above might recall one of the great Byzantine cisterns in Istanbul, but its location is rather less exotic - Honor Oak in south London. It's one of two huge underground reservoirs there. Much enlarged, the image has great impact in a London Architecture Biennale show called SUB urban - a collaboration between photographer Alan Williams and A-EM Architects. -
EXHIBITION
15-Jun-2006
Angus Boulton: Restricted Area At the Wapping Project, London E1, until 2 July -
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8-Jun-2006
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1-Jun-2006
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1-Jun-2006
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EXHIBITIONS
1-Jun-2006
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IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A VISION OF THE FUTURE THAT NEVER CAME TO PASS
1-Jun-2006
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25-May-2006
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18-May-2006
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BEIGEL GOES BY THE BOOK IN KOREA
4-May-2006
NEWS IN PICTURES -
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4-May-2006
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4-May-2006
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4-May-2006
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27-Apr-2006
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27-Apr-2006
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20-Apr-2006
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WE DIDN'T WANT A BUILDING WITH A CAPITAL B. FROM HERE, YOU SHOULDN'T SEE IT
20-Apr-2006
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13-Apr-2006
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6-Apr-2006
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30-Mar-2006
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16-Mar-2006
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9-Mar-2006
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2-Mar-2006
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23-Feb-2006
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EXHIBITION
23-Feb-2006
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16-Feb-2006
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9-Feb-2006
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2-Feb-2006
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2-Feb-2006
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Art and the Power of Placement By Victoria Newhouse. Monacelli Press, 2005. 304pp. £35
26-Jan-2006
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26-Jan-2006
In its latest programme of lectures held each Thursday evening from 2 February to 9 March, the Twentieth Century Society is looking at women in architecture since 1900, and despite the terrible title for the series, Blue Prints, Red Nails, the line-up is promising. Among the speakers are Colin St John Wilson on Eileen Gray; Elain Harwood on Alison Smithson - an attempt to identify her special contribution to the Smithson partnership; and Eva Jiricna on herself. All the lectures are ... -
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19-Jan-2006
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12-Jan-2006
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15-Dec-2005
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8-Dec-2005
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EXHIBITION
8-Dec-2005
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1-Dec-2005
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24-Nov-2005
'Perhaps in his pursuit of silence, as opposed to the polemics and pyrotechnics of his other buildings, Peter Eisenman has at last made a real contribution to the art of architecture, ' wrote Peter Davey of the Holocaust Memorial Berlin in The Architectural Review (July 2005). -
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17-Nov-2005
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10-Nov-2005
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3-Nov-2005
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27-Oct-2005
In tackling post-industrial landscapes in the former East Germany, the latest IBA raises questions about how much intervention is desirable - about what should be valued and left as it is (see pages 25-37). The questions apply just as much to our own major redevelopment site, the Thames Gateway and a new publication from the Essex Development & Regeneration Agency, 350 Miles: An Essex Journey (free from www. realessex. co. uk) could certainly guide decisions. -
EXHIBITION
27-Oct-2005
Alison Turnbull At ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, until 20 November -
ONE OPTION WAS TO DO NOTHING - TO LEAVE THE LANDSCAPE TO ITS OWN DEVICES AS A WILDERNESS
27-Oct-2005
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20-Oct-2005
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13-Oct-2005
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13-Oct-2005
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6-Oct-2005
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29-Sep-2005
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THE DECIMAL POINT
29-Sep-2005
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22-Sep-2005
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22-Sep-2005
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BRISTOL'S EXPANDED ARNOLFINI CENTRE REOPENS
15-Sep-2005
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15-Sep-2005
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8-Sep-2005
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25-Aug-2005
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16-Jun-2005
When Mendelsohn and Chermayeff's De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea opened, the Architectural Review (July 1936) said 'it gives us some glimpse of what a sensibly planned and seaside resort might be' - in retrospect, rather cautious praise for one of this country's early Modern landmarks. Now John McAslan + Partners is close to completing an £8m restoration of the building; above is the De La Warr's north face, patterned by sealant injections to protect the steel frame. -
EXHIBITION
16-Jun-2005
Mark Dion: Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy At the Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester, until autumn 2006 -
FCB takes gallery underground
19-May-2005
Feilden Clegg Bradley's new £3.5 million 'underground gallery' at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), near Wakefield, opened last week and looks set to be loved by both artists and the public. It's 'underground' in the sense that it has minimal impact on the existing landscape, being cut into the slope of the 19th-century Bothy Garden and turf-roofed. Seen from the top of the garden, it looks like a neat patch of lawn detached from the slope by the equivalent of a ha-ha to keep ... -
Child's play
14-Apr-2005
reviews - Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing At Compton Verney, Warwickshire, until 5 June -
HERZOG & DE MEURON GO WEST
14-Apr-2005
Herzog & de Meuron's (H&deM) first completed building in the US, a $67.5 million (£35.7 million) extension to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, opens this weekend - and will no doubt be mobbed. -
Tide of change
10-Mar-2005
ajendaFlorian Beigel + ARU's infrastructure project at Dagenham Dock is a model for tackling the Thames Gateway, says Andrew Mead -
A wider view
17-Feb-2005
review - Architectures du Monde: Le Regard de William J R Curtis At the Centre Meridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville, 5 rue St Pantaléon, Toulouse, until 12 March -
ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE?
3-Feb-2005
After a grim journey from Southampton to Carlisle 50 years ago, Ian Nairn warned of encroaching 'subtopia'. Now artist Andrew Cross has made a film about a similar trip. Andrew Mead sees if Nairn's prophecies came true -
Strength in depth
13-Jan-2005
review - Modern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at the Museum of Modern Art Edited by John Elderfield. MoMA, 2004. 536pp. £36.95. Distributed by Thames & Hudson -
Foster's French flying lesson
20-Dec-2004
Last week French president Jacques Chirac officially opened the Millau Viaduct in southwest France - the spectacular, crucial link in the Paris to Barcelona motorway, writes Andrew Mead -
Out of the cold
2-Dec-2004
review - The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain By Brian Rose. - Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. 144pp. £25 The Hush House: Cold War Sites in England By Frank Watson. Hush House Publishers, 2004. £15. (Distributor: Art Data 020 8747 1061) -
BACK FROM THE DEAD
18-Nov-2004
building study - Danson House was almost a ruin, but after research by English Heritage and restoration by Purcell Miller Tritton, it is now a showcase Palladian villa -
A tale of two halves
11-Nov-2004
review - Arti e Architettura 1900-2000 At the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, until 13 February 2005 -
Changing world
23-Sep-2004
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On the defensive
9-Sep-2004
review - Camouflage; War Fields; Orfordness At the Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, until 10 October -
Empty promises
29-Jul-2004
It's touted as 'a park for the 21st century', but now the inaugural fireworks have faded, does Chicago's Millennium Park justify the rhetoric and claims of its commissioners - or has an opportunity been missed? Andrew Mead reports -
Crate expectations
15-Jul-2004
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Completely Frank
8-Jul-2004
For many years the Robie House in Chicago stood altered and neglected but now the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is restoring it, to present it to the public as it was when built -
Life after death
24-Jun-2004
A church attributed to Christopher Wren has been saved from severe infestation -
Eastern promise
17-Jun-2004
review - A13: A multi-disciplinary exhibition on an urban archetype At the Wapping Project, Wapping Wall, London E1, until 25 July -
Mind reading
3-Jun-2004
reviewHooked on Books: The Library of Sir John Soane, 1753-1837 At the Weston Gallery, DH Lawrence Pavilion, University Park, Nottingham, until 30 August -
Italian evergreen
19-Feb-2004
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Refreshing Bath
15-Jan-2004
review Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath By Michael Forsyth. Yale University Press, 2003. £9.99 -
Sliding scale
4-Dec-2003
Eduardo Chillida At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, until 29 February -
Off the wall
20-Nov-2003
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Foreign exchange (1 of 2)
6-Nov-2003
One hundred years since it was built, Berlage's Beurs in Amsterdam has a new role as a cultural centre.But its treatment of structure and decoration is still exemplary -
Foreign exchange (2 of 2)
6-Nov-2003
One hundred years since it was built, Berlage's Beurs in Amsterdam has a new role as a cultural centre.But its treatment of structure and decoration is still exemplary -
Lost in space
14-Aug-2003
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New horizons
31-Jul-2003
In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection -
Double vision
17-Jul-2003
Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfilment At Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, until 3 August -
Spaces of Uncertainty
26-Jun-2003
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Le Corbusier & The Architecture of Reinvention
19-Jun-2003
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review: art & architecture
12-Jun-2003
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Time and place
29-May-2003
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Taste for the exotic
24-Apr-2003
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Bernd & Hilla Becher, Robert Smithson: Field Trips
3-Apr-2003
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Time travellers
3-Apr-2003
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Broad frontiers
27-Mar-2003
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Job Koelewijn
20-Mar-2003
At the Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, until 4 May -
Venice: Fragile City 1797-1997
20-Mar-2003
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Visual primer
6-Feb-2003
Richard Paul Lohse: Graphic Design 1928-1988 By Christoph Bignens et al. Hatje Cantz, 2002. 312pp. £65 -
City of tomorrow?
16-Jan-2003
EndCommercial: Reading the City Edited by SBA/Scheppe Böhm Associates. Hatje Cantz, 2002. 544pp. £29.95. -
Margherita Spiluttini: Beyond Nature - Constructions of Landscape
7-Nov-2002
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Collaborative spirit
31-Oct-2002
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Out of context
31-Oct-2002
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Seeking a sense of place
31-Oct-2002
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Window on the future
19-Sep-2002
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Stage and screen
5-Sep-2002
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Early riser
15-Aug-2002
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Look and learn
1-Aug-2002
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The great outdoors
6-Jun-2002
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an eye for excellence
4-Apr-2002
people - Publisher Torsten Bløndal has a passion for quality in producing his books. -
The Final Cut: Route 66
21-Mar-2002
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Past and present
21-Feb-2002
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Why Architecture Matters
14-Feb-2002
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Back from the grave
31-Jan-2002
LANDSCAPE EXTRA: Sympathetic restoration of a long-neglected cemetery has created a new green resource for an inner city borough -
Garden of memories
31-Jan-2002
LANDSCAPE STUDY: In commemorating officers of the Metropolitan Police who have died on duty, Churchman Landscape Architects has combined subtle planning with a rigorous attention to detail -
Points of reference
31-Jan-2002
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Reiach and Hall's art 'beacon'
31-Jan-2002
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Rudolph's Manhattan high-rise gets makeover
20-Dec-2001
The house in Beekman Place, Manhattan, which Paul Rudolph radically altered and enlarged over a 30-year period until his death in 1997, has just been restored and is on the market. -
Venice vows to build for the 21st century
20-Dec-2001
At a time when its economy is increasingly dependent on tourism, Venice believes that new construction is one of the keys to its future. -
A backwards look
6-Dec-2001
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Seeking synergy
15-Nov-2001
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Hung, drawn and ordered
8-Nov-2001
Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive By David J Griffin and Simon Lincoln. IAA, 1993. 79pp. £12.95 Leinster House 1744-2000: An Architectural History By David J Griffin and Caroline Pegum. IAA, 2000. 134pp. £17.95 -
Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760
8-Nov-2001
By Edward McParland. Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University Press, 2001. 241pp. £35 -
a life in architecture : alison turnbull
11-Oct-2001
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Colour vision
11-Oct-2001
Some architects today are exploring anew the role of colour in their buildings.With his roots in the early Modern Movement, Josef Albers can still show the way -
Through a glass darkly
11-Oct-2001
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Going nowhere
4-Oct-2001
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Bauman Lyons unveils sculpture 'barns'
20-Sep-2001
In a commission for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton near Wakefield, Leeds-based practice Bauman Lyons Architects has completed a £1.5 million conversion of three agricultural barns - a former equestrian centre - into a sculpture gallery, creative industry studios, workshops and cafe. It was financed by the Arts Lottery and the European Regional Development Fund. -
Putting down roots
16-Aug-2001
A series of additions by Alison and Peter Smithson to a house and factory in Germany have transformed the two buildings, linking them ever more intimately to their respective sites -
Out of focus
12-Jul-2001
REVIEW: Dalziel + Scullion At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, West Bretton, Wakefield until 27 August -
Something in the air
28-Jun-2001
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Dutch masters
7-Jun-2001
The recent restoration of Brinkman and Van der Vlugt's Sonneveld House in Rotterdam turns the clock back to 1933. -
Inflexible friends
7-Jun-2001
Having worked on a dozen or more properties from the 1930s, John Winter believes that conservation officers are often too dogmatic in their demands on owners and architects -
Scrutinising the city
31-May-2001
Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950 At the Museum of Modern Art, Pembroke Street, Oxford, until 15 July and The Lowry, Salford Quays, from 28 October until 2 January 2002 -
An urban explorer
19-Apr-2001
Atget the Pioneer By Jean-Claude Lemagny et al. Prestel, 2000. 200pp. £45 -
Different dimension
1-Mar-2001
Le Corbusier: The Sculptural Collaboration with Savina At Leeds City Art Gallery until 29 April -
Signs of life
22-Feb-2001
The Language of Things At Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, until 11 March; the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, from 17 March-21 April; and Bury Art Gallery from 26 May-7 July -
Flawless floor show
25-Jan-2001
Form + Function: Helen Yardley At Riverhouse Barn, Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames until 4 February -
Books of the year
21-Dec-2000
A selection of the titles that AJ reviewers have most enjoyed during the past 12 months -
Sets without an actor
21-Dec-2000
Thomas Demand At the Fondation Cartier, 261 bvd Raspail, Paris until 28 January and at Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 until 13 January -
Computerising Kahn
7-Dec-2000
Louis I Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks By Kent Larson. Monacelli Press, 2000. 232pp. £40 -
Art and industry
30-Nov-2000
Space Framed: Richard Gluckman Architect Essay by Hal Foster.Monacelli Press, 2000. 240pp. £35 -
danger man
30-Nov-2000
Wayne Cocroft is on a mission to expose the top-secret world of the military. From gunpowder and explosives, he is now delving into the Cold War. And all with the full permission of the establishment by andrew mead. photograph by alun bull/english heritag -
Newham's sunken treasure by the Thames
30-Nov-2000
Thames Barrier Park, designed by Groupe Signes, Patel Taylor Architects and Arup is now open to the public. The 9ha park, in the London Borough of Newham, is on former industrial land on the north bank of the River Thames, just to the west of the barrier. Its dominant feature is a broad, sunken 'green dock' which cuts diagonally across the site, creating a microclimate for parallel strips of planting interspersed with paths. This dock begins with a grid of bubbling fountains and terminates ... -
Called into question
9-Nov-2000
Liam Gillick At the Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol until 23 December -
Industrial awakening
2-Nov-2000
Industry, Architecture, and Engineering: American Ingenuity 1750-1950 By Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois. Abrams, 2000. 288pp. £42 -
Horror of the Holocaust
28-Sep-2000
The opening this summer of a permanent exhibition on the Holocaust at London's Imperial War Museum (IWM) had plenty of press attention - but an aspect of it was underplayed.A piece in the Guardian (2.6.00) was representative, remarking that 'the architectonics are eloquent', but not assessing them at any length. Of course, the content is primary, but the way in which it is presented is integral to its effect. Does the design reinforce the objects, images and texts, or undermine them? -
it's pardey time
28-Sep-2000
John Pardey's love of the 'ordinary' and his admiration of '50s and '60s architecture often left him in a minority. But he stayed true to his principles and now the world seems to be catching up by andrew mead. photograph by jonathan brady -
Riverside renaissance
28-Sep-2000
John Pardey has renovated and extended a house by Basil Spence in the New Forest. Now it is not just an ideal weekend retreat but a comfortable family home -
Fear and loathing in EC1
21-Sep-2000
David Batchelor: Electric Colour Tower At Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1 until 28 January 2001 -
At the water's edge
31-Aug-2000
review -
Stations of the Cross
3-Aug-2000
Looking Beyond: Rosalind Stoddart At Lyveden New Bield, near Oundle, Northamptonshire until 17 September -
Degrees of artifice
27-Jul-2000
Le Jardin 2000 At the Villa Medici, Viale Trinita dei Monti, Rome, until 24 September -
Cultural connections
20-Jul-2000
Recent works which the Scottish artist Alan Johnston has made in Europe and Japan, all precisely attuned to their architectural context, dissolve distinctions between the East and the West -
St John's Square set for Gross Max treatment
13-Jul-2000
Gross Max Landscape Architects has won an invited competition for the redesign of St John's Square, Clerkenwell, organised by the London Borough of Islington. The Edinburgh-based practice beat FAT , Muf, East and Urban Initiatives for the £500,000 project which is partly funded by a Single Regeneration Budget grant. -
Dearth in Venice
29-Jun-2000
La Biennale di Venezia: Seventh International Architecture ExhibitionAt the Giardini di Castello and the Arsenale, Venice, until 29 October -
Spain clinches top Biennale prize
22-Jun-2000
Spain won the prize for the best foreign pavilion at the seventh Venice Architecture Biennale last week with a cross-section of recent work by architects in their 30s and 40s. -
Fount of stories
8-Jun-2000
An unusual Spitalfields property steeped in history is set to become the Museum of Immigration. Can its current romance be retained when it plays this new role? -
Photo opportunities
18-May-2000
Making photographs of completed projects is one thing. Using them to enhance the design process is another -
The traces of time
4-May-2000
review -
Artists in residence
13-Apr-2000
The white walls of two newly restored, semi-detached houses in Dessau by Walter Gropius conceal complex decorative schemes by the first occupants, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee . Photographs by Roderick Coyne -
Mediocrity and beauty
6-Apr-2000
Gabriele Basilico: Cityscapes Thames & Hudson, 2000. 400pp. £24 Nicholas Faure: Autoland - Pictures from Switzerland Scalo, 1999. 240pp. £27.50. (Distributed by Thames & Hudson) -
Questions of colour
9-Mar-2000
review BLUE: borrowed and new At the New Art Gallery, Walsall, until 1 May -
Domestic disturbances
24-Feb-2000
Review -
Imagining the Modern City
10-Feb-2000
by James Donald. Athlone Press, 1999. 216pp. £15.99 -
Odyssey without an end Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Harvard University Press, 1999. 1073pp. £24.95
27-Jan-2000
review -
Audio experiences
16-Dec-1999
review -
Instruments of order
18-Nov-1999
review: Dom Hans van der Laan At the Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds until 16 January -
Gino Severini: From Futurism to Classicism
28-Oct-1999
At the Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1 until 9 January; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 18 January - 3 March; and the GravesArt Gallery, Sheffield, 11 March - 24 April -
Venice Biennale launches future city competition
28-Oct-1999
An international competition to design 'the city of the third millennium' has been launched as part of next year's Venice Architecture Biennale. -
A focus on the figure
14-Sep-1999
review -
Modern movement
22-Jul-1999
En Route: Transport, Technology and Sense of Place At the Hilton National Hotel, Stansted Airport on 13 July -
Venetian discoveries
1-Jul-1999
Review: La Biennale di Venezia: 48th International Art Exhibition At the Castello Gardens and the Arsenale, Venice, until 7 November -
Vittorio Messina: A Village and its Surroundings At the Henry Moore Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax until 30 August
17-Jun-1999
Disquiet in the country -
Cultivating consistency in design
10-Jun-1999
A patch of semi-wasteland in the blighted environs of King's Cross, the slick world of Canary Wharf as its development gets a second wind: landscape architect J & L Gibbons seems as at home in either, and able to engage creatively with both community and commercial needs. Is this engagement largely pragmatic and chameleon-like, or does a consistent language of design inform the practice's response? -
join to last?
10-Jun-1999
Pedestrians get right of way -
The gentle restoration of a Great Hall
13-May-1999
The Grade-I listed Great Hall in Winchester, built in 1220 as part of the city's castle and remodelled in the fourteenth century, re-opens to the public on 23 May after a £300,000 lottery-funded restoration by Hampshire County Architects. -
With the grain
13-May-1999
Our conservation feature begins with a review of work on the twelfth- century ceiling of Peterborough Cathedral. A sophisticated and meticulous programme is making it secure for the future -
A place for people
22-Apr-1999
Jimo Toyin Salako: A Point of View At the Tomato Building, 29-35 Lexington Street, London W1 until 9 May -
Artist who sculpted space
15-Apr-1999
review -
Ferit Kuyas: Industrial Interiors
8-Apr-1999
Edition Stemmle, 1999. 120pp. £50. (Distributor Art Books International 0171 720 1503) -
Cross-section of a century
25-Feb-1999
review -
EXHIBITIONS
18-Feb-1999
Here and Now: Fred Sandback -
Kenneth Martin: The Chance and Order Series, Screw Mobiles and Related Works 1953-1984
4-Feb-1999
EXHIBITIONS -
BOOKS Seeking the poetic in everyday life
28-Jan-1999
The Landscape Approach Bernard Lassus University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 196pp. £30. (Distributor 01752 202301) -
From 'micro' to 'macro'
28-Jan-1999
LANDSCAPE CURRENT PROJECTS -
Photographer in search of the ideal
7-Jan-1999
BOOKS -
EXHIBITIONS: The world seen in open-ended ways
17-Dec-1998
Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud At Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge until 3 January; at Cornerhouse, Manchester, from 9 January-28 February; and at Camden Arts Centre, London, from 9 April-30 May -
EXHIBITIONS Considering the art of construction
15-Oct-1998
site: Artists Respond to the New Gallery Project At Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Lichfield Street, Walsall until 1 November -
EXHIBITIONS
24-Sep-1998
Review -
Architecture that awakens the senses
3-Sep-1998
review -
Architecture that awakens the senses
3-Sep-1998
review -
BOOKS
30-Jul-1998
review -
Blurred boundaries between the arts
16-Jul-1998
review -
Manhattan Small worlds of self-discovery
4-Jun-1998
PRACTICE -
PERIODICALS
4-Jun-1998
review: landscape -
Winning scheme uncovers sombre traces of the past
4-Jun-1998
LANDSCAPE: CURRENT PROJECTS -
An artist's eye on the built world
28-May-1998
review -
Traces of the post-industrial world
14-May-1998
review -
Wild collages sum up the century
14-May-1998
news in pictures -
Appraisal
30-Apr-1998
BUILDING STUDY; IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM -
Modernism brushed against the grain
5-Mar-1998
BOOKS Formless: A User's Guide by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E Krauss. Zone Books, 1997. 304pp. £22.50. (Distributed by MIT Press) -
Inspiring a kinder climate for design
12-Feb-1998
review -
An ambiguous play with perception
5-Feb-1998
review -
A great year for Frank O Gehry
8-Jan-1998
People in the news -
Options for shaping the new landscape
8-Jan-1998
Review: Arcadia Revisited: The Place of Landscape Edited by Vicki Berger and Isabel Vasseur. Black Dog Publishing, 1997. 207pp. £16.95
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