Architects Journal
Johnny Rodger
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Student Shows 2012: Edinburgh School of Architecture
26-Jul-2012
Johnny Rodger sees a fertilisation of ideas and approaches at Edinburgh -
Student Shows 2012: University of Strathclyde School of Architecture
26-Jul-2012
Johnny Rodger senses a strong base of reality in Strathclyde -
Shettleston Housing Association, Glasgow, by Elder and Cannon Architects
2-Sep-2010
The Glasgow practice has designed a ‘thoughtful and open’ home for a housing association in one of Britain’s most deprived and depressed areas. Photography by Andrew Lee -
Elevation detail: Shettleston Housing Association, Glasgow, by Elder and Cannon Architects
2-Sep-2010
The new-build south elevation is based on a formal repetition of cast stone units forming a simple post-and-beam frame -
The Lighthouse Centre for Architecture, Design and the City: a beacon of design
January 2010
The Lighthouse Centre for Architecture, Design and the City opened its doors in Glasgow in 1999. Ten years on, it has gone into administration. Johnny Rodger surveys the lasting legacy, and shortcomings, of one of Europe’s largest architecture centres -
Furnishing an answer JOHNNY RODGER Mies van der Rohe Architecture and Design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno At the Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow until 29 August
3-Jun-1999
'Friendship is a social expedient, like upholstery,' wrote Beckett in his small volume on Proust. That sentiment might equally have been uttered by Mies van der Rohe if the power-hungry loner represented in the biographies is a realistic portrait. As for his views on furniture design, we all think we know what they were, and as is typical for any Mies endeavour they are summed up in a catch-phrase: 'standardisation and rationalisation'. -
Geometry of Miracles
15-Apr-1999
At the secc, Glasgow, from 30 March-3 April and at the National Theatre, London, from 14-24 April
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