Life’s Work
AT Editor2017-10-24T16:07:08+01:00Books
Will Alsop enjoys Richard Rogers’ tale of his life in architecture
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Will Alsop enjoys Richard Rogers’ tale of his life in architecture
History
In an excerpt from his new book on the architecture of diplomacy, James Stourton recounts the creation of the British Embassy in Rome
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A rise in the reputation of visionary American architect John Portman may be under way, suggests Adam Nathaniel Furman
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‘Redefining Brutalism’ offers an interpretation of architectural ethics rather than fashionable aesthetics, finds Nicola Rutt
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Residential highlights of the century, selected by the Twentieth Century Society
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A new study of exemplary projects finds that architects can play a vital role in promoting the development of social housing, says co-author Abigail Batchelor
History
Gwyn Lloyd Jones traces Frank Lloyd Wright’s foreign tours for his study of ‘the first global architect’
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Claire Jamieson, author of a new monograph on NATØ, examines the enduring significance of the ‘last radical architectural group of the twentieth century’
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Surprising revelations emerge in John Stewart's masterly examination of the life of the great Finnish architectÂ
Books Elain Harwood’s monumental ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Archittecture 1945-1975’ honours an era of architectural optimism, finds Owen Hatherley
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As a collection of his architectural commentary is published, Robert Adam considers the purpose and pleasures of writing on building
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‘Hidden Urbanism’ is a useful and informative guide to the Moscow Metro, but one of the greatest artworks of the twentieth century still awaits its definitive account, says Owen Hatherley
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