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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 …
AR House 2024 shortlist revealed - The Architectural Review
Nov 18, 2024 · It is very rare for two projects by the same practice to feature on the shortlist. It happened once before, in 2014, with two houses by Marie-José Van Hee Architecten.This year, the shortlist includes two projects by Gianni Botsford Architects.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) - The Architectural Review
Oct 18, 2022 · Hundertwasser’s architectural principles redefine relations between urban space and nature to imply interconnectedness, modesty and interdependence; these are manifested in the way he designed and justified the incorporation of green roofs, which feature in all of his architectural projects.
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)
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 ...
Buildings - The 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 ...
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
Dec 19, 2014 · The Arch: does any other fragment present a feat of structural engineering with such seemingly effortless grace? The Mesopotamians needed them for lack of stone or wood; the Romans needed them to dramatically span huge distances and to celebrate their victories; late medieval masons needed them to make their Gothic masterworks as …
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 …
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) - The Architectural Review
Feb 28, 2018 · Whatever else you think about Zaha Hadid, remember this moment, this explosion of an absurdly fearless, aggressive, impolite talent onto a profession which had become utterly terrified of itself, and terrified of modernity.
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) - The Architectural Review
Jan 13, 2014 · Pevsner was part of the AR’s postwar drive to promote the softer version of Modernism that would coalesce in the visual planning theory of Townscape; but he was far from being its spearhead.Jim Richards was always adamant that Pevsner was employed as a resident historian at the AR, not a theorist or policy-maker and certainly not a front-line campaigner.