Book Reviews
The resurrection of Dykes Bower
Stephen Dykes Bower battled ambitious colleagues and changing public tastes to redefine and restore our most cherished churches, writes Gavin Stamp
Little map of horrors
A new book by Albena Yaneva attempts to map the controversies, scandal and intrigue that shape our buildings with laudable aims but flawed methods
The Temporary City by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams
A new book takes a pessimistic look at London’s temporary structures and sees their popularity as a sign of our downfall. Tim Abrahams is unconvinced
Pyongyang's Architecture on trial
A two-volume guide to architecture in Pyongyang offers a startling contrast between propaganda and the reality of life in North Korea, writes Hyunjoo Lee
Rave against the machine
Molly Macindoe’s photography reveals the gritty former life of familiar city sites during the free party heyday of the late 90s, writes Merlin Fulcher
Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution and The Very Hungry City
Two new books on global energy dependency deal in anecdote, theory and ‘dreams come true’ writes Hattie Hartman
Nigel Green's Reconstruction
A new study of post-war reconstruction in Picardy, France offers both a historical narrative and regional perspective on Modernism, writes Robin Wilson
Explain more, describe less: Mallgrave and Goodman's Architectural Theory
A new survey of 40 years of architectural theory opts to document, rather than unpack its subjects, writes Stephen Games
Architecture with a social mission
David Canter looks at a new book which considers the architecture of the Salvation Army movement.
Tom Lubbock's Great Works
[THIS WEEK] Tom Lubbock helped his readers see the unexpected in art, writes James Pallister
The Life and Death of Buildings
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
Ruins: Beautiful Decay
A new collection of essays traces how modern ruins have inspired artists and architects, writes Douglas Murphy
Postmodernism redux
FAT has resurrected Postmodernism and turned it radical in the latest issue of Architectural Design, but it’s still not cool, writes Steve Parnell
All Book Reviews
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The resurrection of Dykes Bower
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Little map of horrors
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The Temporary City by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams
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Pyongyang's Architecture on trial
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Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution and The Very Hungry City
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Rave against the machine
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Nigel Green's Reconstruction
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Explain more, describe less: Mallgrave and Goodman's Architectural Theory
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Architecture with a social mission
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Tom Lubbock's Great Works
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The Life and Death of Buildings
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Ruins: Beautiful Decay
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Postmodernism redux
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Building a defence: Architecture in Uniform
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Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture
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Architecture, Philip K Dick and Science-fiction Film
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The Perfect Architect
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Reservoir and Aftermath
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Around & About Stock Orchard Street
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Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness
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‘The true spirit of the Bauhaus’
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‘The plan’s the thing’
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Utopias, 'Sustainism' and architecture: between the possible and the impossible
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The style war continues
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Neo Avant-Garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond
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Richard MacCormac: a logical narrative
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The 7 sins of architects, according to Robert Adam and Louis Hellman
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The New Mathematics of Architecture
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Architecture's Evil Empire? A new book by Miles Glendinning
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Book review: Other Space Odysseys
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Books in brief - Henley Halebrown Rorrison
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Pevsner - Building a new identity
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Chandigarh: Ernst Scheidegger's previously unseen photographs
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Richard Rogers on Maggie's Centre and the architecture of hope
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Byker, Ralph and me: BDP's Tony McGuirk on Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall
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England’s Schools: History, Architecture and Adaptation
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Asia’s urbanisation: Big cities and bigger books
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Keith Williams: Architecture of the Specific
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BOOK: Pattern Place Purpose: Proctor and Matthews Architects
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The freedoms of suburbia
