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
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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
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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 architect
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