Archive
Selected articles from back issues of the Architects' Journal and the Architectural Review. The search box in the top right corner of each page can be used to make specific searches of AJ articles back to 1997
From the Archives: Van Doesburg's L'Aubette [AJ 16.11.06]
To mark a new exhibition of Van Doesburg’s work at Tate Modern, the Architects’ Journal revisits L’Aubette in an article from 2006 by Isabelle Ewig (translation by Ruth Slavid) with photography by Oliver Godow. Click on the image to see the pdfs
From the Archive: Highpoint One by Berthold Lubetkin, 1985
A building study from the AJ, June 1985, of Highpoint One by Berthold Lubetkin. This modernist high rise tower is one of the many buildings that will be open to the public in this year’s Open House London
From the Archive: Trellick Tower by Ernö Goldfinger
In this article from the AJ in May, 1999, Paul Hyett remembers Ernö Goldfinger and his high rise building the Trellick Tower. This building is one of the many that will be open to the public in this year’s Open House London.
From the Archive: Centre Point by Richard Seifert
The AJ’s review of an exhibition of Richard Seifert’s work from November 1984. The exhibition included the Centre Point Tower on New Oxford Street; this is one of the many buildings open to the public at this year’s Open House London.
From the Archive: Royal College of Physicians by Denys Lasdun, 1960
The original AJ building study of the Royal College of Physicians from June 1960. This building is one of many that will be open to the public as part of this year’s Open House London
From the Archive: Royal College of Physicians by Denys Lasdun, extension 1994
In 1994 Denys Lasdun was commissioned to build an extension for the Royal College of Physicians, which he originally designed in 1960. This building is one of many that will be open to the public as part of this year’s Open House London
From the Archives: Dulwich Picture Gallery by Sir John Soane
Read the AJ’s article from 1985 on the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Originally designed by Sir John Soane it was reconstructed post World War II by Russel Vernon, who died on 3 July this year aged 92
From the archives: Rossi wins the Pritzker Prize 1990
On the anniversary of his death in 1997, The Architects’ Journal remembers Aldo Rossi and his Pritzker Prize win.
From the Archives: La Tourette by Le Corbusier, 1960
Read the AJ’s original verdict on Le Corbusier’s Dominican Monastery in this article published in the AJ on October 20, 1960.
From the archive: DSDHA/Paradise Park
Following the failure of London’s first ‘living wall’, the AJ revisits its coverage of DSDHA’s Paradise Park, published in August 2006. (Photography by Mauricio Guillen)
From the archives: Palestra by Will Alsop
This week Will Alsop announced he is to leave his practice. Here, as part of a retrospective of his projects, is the AJ’s 5 October, 2006 coverage of Alsop & Stormer’s Palestra
From the archives: Fawood children's centre by Will Alsop
This week Will Alsop announced he is to leave his practice. Here, as part of a retrospective of his projects, is the AJ’s 3 February, 2005 coverage of Alsop & Stormer’s Fawood children’s centre
ARCHITECT OBITUARIES
Architect behind Sears Tower dies
Bruce Graham, the man who designed the iconic Sears Tower in Chicago, has died at 84
Brian Anson (1935-2009)
Richard Rogers remembers the architect and planner Brian Anson, who died last month aged 74
Architectural PR Deborah Stratton dies
Deborah Stratton, who represented some of the country’s biggest practices over a 25-year PR career, has died after a long illness aged 54
Monica Pidgeon (1913 - 2009)
Peter Murray remembers Monica Pidgeon, editor of Architectural Design for 30 years, who died last week at the age of 95
Julius Shulman (1910 - 2009)
The American architectural photographer who popularised California modernism has died at the age of 98
Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown (1913 - 2009)
Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown, architect of the Royal College of Art and pioneer of British modernism, has died aged 96
Arthur Erickson (1924-2009)
Arthur Erickson, possibly Canada’s most important architect of the 20th century, has died aged 84
