Architects Journal
Jeremy Melvin
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Wright & Wright's AA revamp revealed
5-Oct-2012
Expanding for growth while still preserving Georgian and institutional heritage is the delicate balancing act achieved by the AA’s new masterplan, writes Jeremy Melvin in sister publication The Architectural Review -
EXHIBITION
29-Jun-2006
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EXHIBITION
9-Feb-2006
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Halfway house
18-Nov-2004
review - Housey Housey: Pierre d'Avoine Architects At the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, until 27 November -
Universal man
26-Aug-2004
review - Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism By Mari Hvattum. Cambridge University Press, 2004. £65 -
Rules of engagement
13-May-2004
Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing Authority By Brian Hanson. Cambridge University Press, 2003. £55 A pleasure in reviewing books is to come across one that weaves loose threads together, which guide into order the hares that others set running. Such a book does not have to be great or ambitious; it may merely flip the more substantial themes of others into a hitherto unseen coherence. Brian Hanson's Architects and the 'Building World' from ... -
State of mind
26-Feb-2004
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Slaves of fashion
15-Jan-2004
review Catalogue: Project Orange Architecture & Design Black Dog Publishing, 2003. 128pp. £16.95 -
Foreign objects
4-Dec-2003
FOA's new exhibition reveals an on-going process of theoretical investigation. Jeremy Melvin admires the work but wonders what the future holds -
Mind and body
30-Oct-2003
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A man with a plan
16-Oct-2003
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Brothers in arms
9-Oct-2003
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Katherine Vaughan-Williams (1955-2003)
11-Sep-2003
Katherine Vaughan-Williams, known to her many students and more readers as Katherine Shonfield, was perhaps the most inventive and wide-ranging intellect of her generation in architecture. She was an architect, installation artist, writer and teacher, and, never really recognising the distinctions between them, exercised an extraordinary moral and critical force. She wrote as she spoke, whether privately or lecturing, or on the wireless. To hear her speak, even as her health declined, ... -
Working models
24-Jul-2003
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Skin deep
26-Jun-2003
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An Austrian tradition
15-May-2003
Baumschlager-Eberle 1996-2002 At Deluxe, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London N1, from 28 April-9 May -
Home truths
27-Mar-2003
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It's in the genes
20-Mar-2003
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Second class
13-Mar-2003
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Dazed and confused
30-Jan-2003
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Home grown
7-Nov-2002
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Media studies
26-Sep-2002
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On the mat
20-Jun-2002
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For the greater good?
30-May-2002
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Fashion statement
7-Mar-2002
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Erudite observer
21-Feb-2002
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Conjuror's tricks
6-Dec-2001
Off the Shelf: dRMM Practice and Unit Projects At the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1 until 14 December Anyone who has had the unquantifiable pleasures of visiting the Architects Registration Board in the past year will have noticed the strange arrangement of familiar objects around which that body conducts its business. Here a 'column' is laid on its side to become a reception desk, a corrugated, polycarbonate cladding sheet becomes an internal partition, and ... -
Gems from Japan
1-Nov-2001
Review 4 x 4: Apartment Avant-Garde -
Principles for practice
25-Oct-2001
The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice By Tom Spector. Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 256pp. £17.95 -
Virtuosity in Vienna
27-Sep-2001
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How Architecture Got Its Hump
30-Aug-2001
By Roger Connah.MIT Press, 2001. 209pp. £11.50 -
Rearguard action
19-Jul-2001
REVIEW: Morality and Architecture Revisited By David Watkin. John Murray, 2001. £13.99 -
Cultural ambitions
31-May-2001
Art and Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries By Pierre Francastel.MIT Press, 2001. 331pp. £20.50 -
The waiting game
31-May-2001
Almost a year after opening to the public, Walsall bus station by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris is virtually complete.Why did it take so long and was it worth the wait? -
Man the banquettes
15-Mar-2001
2001: An Architectural Odyssey At the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1 until 18 August -
Tate takes on the city
15-Feb-2001
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis At Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 until 29 April -
Fount of modernity
1-Feb-2001
Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London By Lynda Nead. Yale University Press, 2000. 251pp. £19.95 -
Mistaken priorities
30-Nov-2000
Changing Architectural Education: Towards A New Professionalism Edited by David Nicol and Simon Pilling. E & FN Spon, 2000. 300pp. £24.99 -
Wildscreen@Bristol by Michael Hopkins
30-Nov-2000
Michael Hopkins and Partners has broken the mould of leisure architecture for Wildscreen@Bristol, creating a coherent link from docklands heritage to a vital new quarter -
Transcending his flaws
17-Aug-2000
Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century By Stanford Anderson. MIT Press, 2000. 429pp. £39.95 -
Provoking passion Ruskin: The Later Years By Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 2000. 544pp. £20
27-Apr-2000
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Provoking passion Ruskin: The Later Years By Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 2000. 544pp. £20
27-Apr-2000
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Ito's invisible city
2-Mar-2000
Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture 1971-2005 by Ulrich Schneider et al. Charta, 1999. 240pp. £34. Distributor Art Books International 020 7720 1503 -
Patina of success Foggo Associates' striking city office block reconciles the planning authority's preference for solidity and conservatism with the developer's demand for economy . By Jeremy Melvin P
10-Feb-2000
Foggo Associates' No 60 Queen Victoria Street is as nicely turned a speculative office as you might find. It is considered of appearance, efficient of floorplate and attractive of location. Its lobby feels spacious without being wasteful, the vanity units in its lavatories are among the finest this side of Philippe Starck's Royalton, and the unusual facade treatment makes for dappled internal daylight which space planners might - and occupants will - appreciate. Placing the entrance ... -
Transforming tactics
16-Dec-1999
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Predictable prophets
2-Dec-1999
review [Future] City At the riba Architecture Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London W1 until 15 January -
science and sensibility
25-Nov-1999
Sir Neil Cossons is updating the Science Museum with the new Wellcome Wing - an action which augurs well for his forthcoming role as head ofEnglish Heritage -
How to civilise a city Joze Plecnik and the Making of a Capital At the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1 until 30 October
21-Oct-1999
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people in the public realm
21-Oct-1999
Art consultant Andrew Knight has shown that public art does not have to be a travesty. A builder of bridges between professions, he celebrates the difference in approach that different disciplines bring by jeremy melvin. photograph by robert greshoff -
Futile but in fashion
29-Jul-1999
technical & practice: JEREMY MELVIN Manifesto: Fifty Years of British Radicals At the riba, 66 Portland Place, London W1 until 28 August -
Industrial Giant
29-Jul-1999
Ryder Company has designed the largest factory making printed circuit boards in Europe. Based in Tyneside, it shows how sophisticated the thinking behind such a building can be -
Jean technology
29-Jul-1999
Architects Co-Partnership has taken an intelligent strategic approach to the design of a headquarters and distribution centre for Levi Strauss outside Northampton. Do the details live up to it? by Jeremy Melvin. Photographs by Philip Bier -
Too quick on the draw
22-Jul-1999
The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neil Leach. MIT Press, 1999. 101pp. £10.50 -
Glass menagerie
15-Jul-1999
Wharmby Kozdon has added to London Zoo's architectural menagerie by breaking with tradition and creating a variety of habitat-like spaces to challenge visitors' expectations -
Architecture of assembly
8-Jul-1999
Review: London's Town Halls At the RIBA Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London W1 until 24 July -
20th Century British Housing At the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1 until 26 June
17-Jun-1999
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Exploring intuition JEREMY MELVIN Frank Gehry at the Soane At Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2 until 19 June
3-Jun-1999
If anyone categorised architectural personalities in the way Buddhists do souls, 'intuitiveness' would surely be the equivalent of 'nirvana'. It is the most frequent accolade for Frank Gehry, and bearing it out demands little of the critic. Indeterminate, squiggly lined drawings tend to suggest intuitiveness, and Gehry does those in abundance. The show at the Soane (cut down from a much larger one at the Louisiana, Copenhagen) presents a sample of these drawings, several models and ... -
The ever-changing city
27-May-1999
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Medium of Modernism
6-May-1999
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Josef Albers Print Retrospective
29-Apr-1999
At Alan Cristea Gallery, 31 Cork Street, London W1 until 8 May -
people the vision thing
29-Apr-1999
Peter Bell, architect turned client, combines vision with commercial realism, qualities which have helped transform the stuffy image of Lord's into one of the country's leading sites of contempory architecture -
Our friends in the north
15-Apr-1999
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Spatial speculations JEREMY MELVIN Decoding Homes and Houses by Julienne Hanson. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 318pp. £45
8-Apr-1999
Space syntax is here to stay. First brought to wide public attention with the publication in 1984 of The Social Logic of Space, co-authored by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson, it is now being used to inform policy; if your chosen exit from Trafalgar Square on 31 December 1999 is closed, that is because space syntax models will have predicted that it would be dangerously crowded. In between Hillier has given us Space is the Machine (aj 24.10.96), and now Hanson adds Decoding Homes and ... -
Architecture by numbers JEREMY MELVIN Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Number in Architecture by Lionel March. Academy Editions (John Wiley), 1999. £24.95
4-Mar-1999
All the ingenuity and diligent detective work which Lionel March achieves in his Architectonics of Humanism depends on one surmise. 'Where are the musicologists or the linguists of architecture?' he asks in the prologue. 'Even the formal studies of languages themselves have far more to offer than vague and shallow metaphors appropriated by architectural apologists.' -
Ingenious developments
25-Feb-1999
farmax: Excursions on Density - mvrdv 010 Publishers, 1998. 736pp. £23.50. (Distributor Art Data 0181 747 1061) -
All the contents of a magpie mind
21-Jan-1999
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News: More than Duxford on show at Stirling lecture
17-Dec-1998
Anyone hoping for a complete description of the magnificent American Airforce Museum at Duxford would have been disappointed at Fosters director Spencer de Grey's presentation at the riba. Not only were there no jury members on hand - even in the audience - to explain their choice, but de Grey chose to present six buildings including Duxford - the only one of the half-dozen 'with which I have not been involved'. -
EXHIBITIONS Where the ordinary is rather over-rated
15-Oct-1998
review Beyond Minimalism: Recent Architecture of Tadao Ando At the Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London W1 until 1 November -
BOOKS Ambition lapsing into anecdote The Structure of the Ordinary by N J Habraken. MIT Press, 1998. 359pp. £34.95
24-Sep-1998
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Perils of consulting 'the people'
30-Jul-1998
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Tensions that lie beneath the surface
16-Jul-1998
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Provincial currents in Renaissance design
18-Jun-1998
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Analysing the history of the representational
11-Jun-1998
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Canadian cliches and anomalies
11-Jun-1998
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The floating world of Kisho Kurokawa
30-Apr-1998
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Investigations into image-making
16-Apr-1998
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Compact companions for city travelling
9-Apr-1998
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Giving a sense of secret lives
2-Apr-1998
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: The Palace of Projects At the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London NW1 until 10 May. Advance booking 0171 336 6803 -
Engineering by numbers
12-Mar-1998
Arup’s Cecil Balmond brings mathematical principles to building design, using this to free it from imposed symmetry and grids -
Architects intending to communicate
26-Feb-1998
Architects and Exhibition Design At the RIBA Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London W1 until 7 March -
Show that warrants serious thought
5-Feb-1998
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Silence, irony and sober realism
29-Jan-1998
Review: EXHIBITIONS: The Presence of Construction - Caruso St John: The Walsall Art Gallery At the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1 until 14 February
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