Architects Journal
Murray Fraser
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BOOK
21-Jun-2007
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BOOK
1-Mar-2007
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future By Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht.Yale University Press, 2006. £40 -
BOOK
7-Dec-2006
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BOOK
3-Aug-2006
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BOOK
17-Nov-2005
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Siza matters
31-Mar-2005
review - lvaro Siza: Private Houses 1954-2004 By Alessandra Cianchetta and Enrico Molteni. Skira, 2004. 232pp. £39 -
Prime time
13-Jan-2005
review - Zaha Hadid: The Complete Works Thames & Hudson, 2004. £75 -
Split the difference
9-Dec-2004
ajenda - The Annie Spink Award, a biennial prize for outstanding contributions to architectural education, has been split once again - this time between Peter Salter and Wolf Prix. Murray Fraser puts the winners under the spotlight -
Back to basics
28-Oct-2004
review - Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century By Richard Weston. Laurence King, 2004. 240pp. £28 -
Shooting from the hip and moulding the modern
18-Dec-2003
RIBA Gold Medal winner Rem Koolhaas is acclaimed both for his buildings and his writings. Murray Fraser assesses the work, ideas and influence of a man who likes to shock -
Repeat prescription
4-Dec-2003
Glenn Murcutt: Buildings + Projects 1962-2003 By Françoise Fromonot. Thames & Hudson, 2003. 256pp. £39.95 -
Seminal projects
19-Jun-2003
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The Sixties scene
1-May-2003
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Lean machine
27-Feb-2003
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Opposing forces Opposing forces
17-Oct-2002
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The end of architecture?
11-Apr-2002
Harvard Design School Project on the City 1: Great Leap Forward Edited by Chuihua Judy Chung et al. Taschen, 2001. 720pp. £29.99 Harvard Design School Project on the City 2: Guide to Shopping Edited by Chuihua Judy Chung et al. Taschen, 2001. 800pp. £29.9 -
An urban message
17-Jan-2002
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Angels with dirty traces
29-Nov-2001
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Setting sun
7-Jun-2001
REVIEW: The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki: Modernity and the Construction of Scenery At the Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 until 22 July -
Fleeting phenomena
17-May-2001
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Theatrical ambitions
19-Apr-2001
Covering + Exposing: The Architecture of Coop Himmelb(l)au By Frank Werner. Birkhauser, 2000. 208pp. £38 -
Accentuate the negative
16-Nov-2000
Warped Space: Art, Architecture & Anxiety in Modern Culture By Anthony Vidler.MIT Press, 2000. 301pp. £22.50 -
Suburban myths
19-Oct-2000
After the City by Lars Lerup.MIT Press, 2000. 200pp. £15.50 -
Mindless manifesto
22-Jun-2000
Architecture Must Burnby Aaron Betsky & Erik Adigard. Thames & Hudson, 2000. £18.95 -
Privilege and populism
18-May-2000
The Architecture of John Lautnerby Alan Hess. Thames & Hudson, 1999. 276pp. £40 -
Intuitive inventions Alsop & Stormer: Selected and Current Works Images Publishing (Melbourne), 1999. 256pp. £35. Distributor 01394 385501
27-Jan-2000
Of the contemporary practices which deserve to be profiled in a monograph, there can be little dispute that Alsop & Stormer are near the top of the list. Will Alsop is one of the best British architects of his generation, and this new book shows his splendidly inventive form-making. Alsop's design approach has always been intuitive rather than consciously intellectual. He makes it plain that he is happier as a painter rather than a theorist, and what he likes best is the kind of bold ... -
Offering Asian insights Shaking the Foundations: Japanese Architects in Dialogue Edited by Christopher Knabe and Joerg Rainer Noennig. Prestel, 1999. 160pp. £19.95. (Distributor 01403 710851)
11-Nov-1999
When the inevitable backlash comes against the cult of Koolhaas, one of the charges against him will be that his polemic about Asian architecture and urbanism is based on a shaky understanding of the countries involved. Koolhaas will no doubt be accused of creating a modern form of what Edward Said termed 'Orientalism'; that is, the tendency to impose a Western construct on Eastern cultures. -
The eminent outsider
29-Apr-1999
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BOOKS: Critical quest for myth and meaning
14-Jan-1999
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BOOKS
12-Nov-1998
Endless complexity of the everyday Architecture of the Everyday Edited by Deborah Berke and Steven Harris, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997. 224pp. £12.95 -
An avant-garde in academic hands
30-Apr-1998
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Cultural mix calls for critical edge
12-Feb-1998
review
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