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Architecture review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at UC Santa Barbara

Architecture review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at...

To the extent that modernism in architecture was about clearing the historical decks — about dramatically and even gleefully breaking with the past — Cliff May was never cut out to be a modernist. Not an orthodox one, anyway. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Architecture review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at UC Santa Barbara

Architecture review: Cliff May 'Carefree California' show at...

To the extent that modernism in architecture was about clearing the historical decks — about dramatically and even gleefully breaking with the past — Cliff May was never cut out to be a modernist. Not an orthodox one, anyway. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries: review

Nikolaus Pevsner’s name is indelibly associated with The Buildings of England, a series of 46 architectural guides published by Penguin and arranged by county, beginning with Cornwall in 1951 and ending with Staffordshire in 1974. C [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Pablo Bronstein – review

Pablo Bronstein – review

London's Institute of Contemporary Arts has had a chequered history, to say the least. I have known it since the early 1970s, and ran a series of talks there in the late 80s and early 90s. Directors and staff have come and gone, votes [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Book Review: How to Read Churches: A crash course in ecclesiastical architecture

Book Review: How to Read Churches: A crash course in ecclesi...

Denis McNamara is an essential resource for anyone that maintains an interest in studying the history of architecture as it applies to Christian churches. The book is essentially an indispensible tool to decipher the nuances of ecclesiast [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

The architecture of New Orleans' rebuilt public housing gets mixed reviews

The architecture of New Orleans' rebuilt public housing gets...

This month, eight families from the Lafitte public housing development trundled their belongings into brand-new apartments in an instant neighborhood dubbed Faubourg Lafitte, erected on the site of the demolished brick complex in the 6th [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Conservancy Preservation Awards, USC Mega-Student Design Rev...

The Los Angeles Conservancy is accepting applications for its 30th Annual Preservation Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in the field of historic preservation in L.A. County. According to the Conservancy, projects must have [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Architecture review - Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas

Architecture review - Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ru...

Walt Disney Concert Hall is a joyously informal ship of state for a city keen to come together, if only for a few hours, in a collective experience. Gehry's own house in Santa Monica, a modest pink bungalow the architect wrapped [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Architecture Review

Architecture Review

We’ll have to wait to find out exactly what the end of the Age of Excess means for architecture in New York. Yes, the glut of high-concept luxury towers was wearisome. But some great civic works were also commissioned in that era. A [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Review: Moscow by Karl Schlgel

Review: Moscow by Karl Schlgel

No European city has undergone as much upheaval in the past fifteen years as Moscow. The stage for the fall of a world empire and the rebirth of a globally-connected Russia, Moscow has transformed from a monochrome capital city to a new Bab [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

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