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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · After this initial work, Niemeyer continued to produce remarkable projects in the major Brazilian cities. The theme of the free plan was developed in his own home, Das Canoas House (1951-53) in the middle of the lush forest of Tijuca in Rio, as well as in the amazing Edifício Copan (1951-57), a large residential building in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis.
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
Apr 24, 2012 · Biography. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Education Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Taught to draw by his father. Key buildings Houses of Parliament, London (1844)
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) - The Architectural Review
Feb 14, 2020 · At the age of 78, in a key scene of the documentary movie Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres, Hassan Fathy was interviewed at his Ottoman-Mamluk flat, at the foot of the Cairo Citadel.Swathed in a brown cloak, he walked back and forth on the house’s rooftop with the ensemble of Cairo’s buildings and the dome and minarets of …
Buildings | Architectural Review
Every building we feature has a story to tell. Whether we explore a new intervention that has shifted the fabric of the city surrounding it, pull back the covers on architectural prize-giving, or consider the possible replicable impact of a tiny prototype, every project – large or small, good or bad – contributes to an archive of the most culturally significant and architecturally ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...
Thatch is back: a traditional material could inform new sustainable ...
Jun 28, 2023 · T hatch almost disappeared across Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. The exception is the low‑lying and watery terrain of the Netherlands, where reed beds – and consequently thatch materials – were part of the vernacular.
The writing’s on the wall: Sands End Arts and Community Centre in ...
Jun 14, 2021 · The Romans were not fussy about what they built their walls out of. Broken tiles, rubble, pocked stone slabs, some carved with letters or sculpted into animals, even the drums of marble columns turned sideways into large moon-like discs were piled onto each other.
Charles Moore (1925-1993) - The Architectural Review
Jul 28, 2017 · Architecture and life for Moore were theatre, and he designed the stage sets in which we could act out the roles we chose. Nowhere was this more true than at Kresge College at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where the dormitories turned into abstractions of Italian hill-town streets and the laundry room became a chapel, and at …
Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) - The Architectural Review
Apr 6, 2018 · His rehabilitation coincided inevitably with the rise of Postmodernism. Arguably his most important champion in this was Robert Venturi, who included a number of Lutyens’ projects in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.Venturi’s ‘gentle-manifesto’ argued for the full range of spatial and formal effects available to …