Architects Journal
Joseph Rykwert
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Art house: Louvre-Lens by SANAA
20-Feb-2013
The concept behind an offshoot of the Louvre may have followed in the footsteps of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou, but the final product is altogether different, writes Joseph Rykwert -
Joseph Rykwert: Reminiscences of Duchamp
18-Feb-2013
Joseph Rykwert recalls Marcel Duchamp, whose work and influence is celebrated in a major new season at the Barbican -
Rykwert on Niemeyer: ‘The world’s best known Brazilian, apart from Pelé’
14-Dec-2012
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was undoubtedly one of the most revered architects of our time but his preference for natural curves over the linear resulted in a conflict that can never be resolved, writes Joseph Rykwert -
Stirling Prize 2012: Lyric Theatre by O’Donnell + Tuomey
10-Oct-2012
‘The architect has responded to a complex brief with a building which demands to be experienced,’ writes Joseph Rykwert -
Does architectural criticism matter?
17-Sep-2012
Joseph Rykwert, judge on this year’s AJ Writing Prize, on perils and provocations in the business of criticism. -
Pioneer of Perspective
2-Aug-2012
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting may have been translated before but Rocco Sinisgalli’s version of Alberti’s Italian offering sheds new light on the pioneer and his reasons for completing the text, writes Joseph Rykwert -
Quiet intervention
5-Jul-2012
Witherford Watson Mann’s sensitive re-occupation of Astley Castle saves the essential and excises the incidental, writes Joseph Rykwert. Photography by Helene Binet -
Bauhaus at the Barbican
10-May-2012
Joseph Rykwert visits the lively new exhibition at the Barbican and is reminded of the fun and frolics of the Dessau school -
Postmodernism post-mortem
6-Oct-2011
Now Postmodernism is over, we can try to define it. But the V&A’s exhibition doesn’t clear things up, writes Joseph Rykwert -
The Angel Building by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
29-Sep-2011
A building that contrasts between sharp and cool, an understated exterior and invitingly complex interior, says Joseph Rykwert -
Hepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
2-Jun-2011
David Chipperfield’s bold, striking and singular Hepworth Wakefield gallery will win the favour of the public, predicts Joseph Rykwert. Photography by Iwan Baan -
Holburne Museum, Bath, by Eric Parry
26-May-2011
[AJ Building Study] Eric Parry has successfully, and respectfully, reintegrated the historic Holburne Museum building into its context with his radical extension, writes Joseph Rykwert Photography by Hélène Binet -
Theo van Doesburg: Jack of all trades, master as well
18-Feb-2010
As a retrospective of the work of Theo van Doesburg and his contemporaries opens at the Tate Modern, Joseph Rykwert recalls the life of the Dutch polymath -
Chelsea Barracks may be dead, but nimbyism lives on.
17-Jun-2009
Before the towering power of the financier, local authority and even royalty seem at a loss. Nimbyism does nowadays seem to be the only energising engine of protest, says Joseph Rykwert -
Archistars outshone at Sofia’s World Triennial of Architecture
4-Jun-2009
Little-known practices showed outstanding work at Sofia’s World Triennial of Architecture, says Joseph Rykwert -
Michael Sorkin: Building a philosophy
21-May-2009
In his new book, architect Michael Sorkin strolls downtown New York - follow him and grow wiser -
The practice of theory
7-May-2009
Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti has launched a broadside against theory-free, post-modernist posturing. But theory, says Joseph Rykwert, must address architecture’s ‘thinginess’ -
Eileen Gray - the original eminence grise
23-Apr-2009
Though she waited years to receive proper recognition, says Joseph Rykwert, Eileen Gray was the designer behind one of modernism’s iconic buildings -
The great chainsaw massacre
20-Mar-2009
Our urban tree canopy – once a novelty , now a necessity – needs to be saved from developers, NIMBYs and lesser architects, says Joseph Rykwert -
Do not miss Rodchenko and Popova
6-Mar-2009
Joseph Rykwert on the remarkable Soviet constructivists’ new show at the Tate Modern -
Why Sarkozy's Paris doesn't cut the mustard
18-Feb-2009
The French capital has its charms – but a revolutionary city it is not, says Joseph Rykwert -
Rykwert on theatre’s spatial awareness
18-Dec-2008
Hong Kong play turns evidence into performance
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