Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Review: Georgian Illuminations at Sir John Soane’s Museum
Rakesh Ramchurn reports from an exhibition on the Georgians’ use of spectacular light shows to celebrate the age
Review: Unbuild – A Site of Possibility
Unbuild: A Site of Possibility at the Drawing Room examined the confluence between buildings, the body and the gallery’s location, writes Teshome Douglas-Campbell. Photography by Ben Deakin
Heatherwick’s Humanise book: ‘A visual and textual bludgeoning’
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
POoR Collective’s Watchlist
POoR highlights eight architects, designers and artists worth keeping an eye on, with interests that include disability justice, diasporic identities, and using AI in architectural drawing
Birmingham Screwdrivers: RESOLVE’s Tools for a Disorderly Practice
As part of POoR Collective’s takeover of the AJ, RESOLVE Collective offer an inventory of used – and misused – tools that they've encountered, in the form of books, artworks, sonic transmissions and events chosen by each member of the team
Manplan’s reportage architectural photography revisited
While the RIBA showcases the 1969-70 photography of the AR’s Manplan programme, another exhibition features present-day images of one of its most famous locations, Deptford’s Pepys Estate
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