Recently added articles from The Architectural Review:
The New Acropolis Museum: banal, sloppy, badly detailed sophistry.
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Parthenon, the centrepiece of Athens' Acropolis temple complex, was rebuilt in the heyday of the Athenian state in the 440s BC, following its earlier destruction by the Persians. It was only decades old when Plato was writing his philosophical dialogues a couple of miles down the road ....
The Rusty Nail.(Rostturm)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Officially called the 'Rostturm', this 30m-high, 111 tonne Cor-ten steel tower, on the border of Brandenburg and Sachsen in east Germany, has already been affectionately dubbed the 'Rusty Nail'. Hammered into a devastated moonscape, it is the landmark for Europe's biggest reclamation ...
The Mies van der Rohe Award final round: 'an architectural tete-a-tete'.
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Mies van der Rohe Award, officially titled the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, framed this year's shortlist as a series of architectural duels. In Antoni Gaudi's Barcelona landmark La Pedrera, the five shortlisted practices faced off in a series of lectures: Carme ...
AR shoots the breeze with artist Dan Graham as his MOCA retrospective closes.(architectural review)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The work of influential artist Dan Graham spans five decades and straddles a cross-section of media, from performance art to pavilions. As a retrospective exhibition, Dan Graham: Beyond, concludes at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (until 25 May), the AR meets him to discuss ...
L'Aquila's earthquake reveals Italy's deadly building standard.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Earthquakes are part of the way of life in some parts of Italy. A big one in the Friuli, north of Venice, killed nearly 1,000 people in May 1976; in November 1980 in Campania-Basilicata, there were nearly 3,000 dead; one centred on Nocera in Umbria made news in 1997 because it damaged the ...
Slavoj Zizek encounters the best and worst sides of architects at his conference debut.
Jun 01, 2009; ... One of the more interesting innovations of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) is the farming out of their annual conference to the curatorship of individual practices. The first of these was Kerstin Thompson, who turned away from the model of passive consumption of ...
Chile.
Jun 01, 2009; ... From their remote outpost at the end of the world, Chilean architects are eagerly reinterpreting modernist tenets to create thrilling new architecture that responds to climate and context. Jaffer Kolb introduces the Chilean scene and looks at three recent buildings in detail ...
Casa A Smiljan Radic.
Jun 01, 2009; ... To anyone unfamiliar with his work, Smiljan Radic's recently completed Casa A is an encompassing example of the architect's style. With an eye for preservation, regional sensitivity and the intersection of art and architecture, 44-year-old Radic executes buildings that are both ...
Alejandro Aravena.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Popular as it's becoming, Austin is not a beautiful city. Despite a modest, low-rise periphery, its skyline is dominated by ugly, corporate high-rises and bland plazas. The Texan city is home to St Edward's University, an oasis of a campus near South Congress, a quickly gentrifying area ...
Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Jun 01, 2009; ... There is something unmistakably playful--thrilling, even--in the residential architecture of Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Whether through their experimental relationship with circulation, attention to rustic detailing or the imaginative addition of hidden closets and ...
Francisco Mangado.
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'It's a box of treasure,' says Francisco Mangado of his new archaeology museum in Vitoria, 'that history has entrusted to us piece by piece.' In the cramped streets of the city's medieval core, Mangado's treasure box seems intent on making its own history. Soberly accoutred in a corrugated ...
Lacatons & Vassal.
Jun 01, 2009; ... NANTES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Jean-Philippe Vassal once memorably remarked that 'air and flowers' were the two most important things in Lacaton & Vassal's work. This makes the Paris-based partnership sound a bit hippy-dippy, but don't be duped. Such blissed-outness is tempered ...
Toyo Ito.(Za-Koenji Public Theatre )
Jun 01, 2009; ... ZA-KOENJI THEATRE The Za-Koenji Public Theatre is a top-heavy black iceberg of a building, set in the commercial district of Suginami City, in the western part of Tokyo. Constrained on a tight plot and subject to strict height restrictions, the building's flamboyant black steel ...
Kyu Sung Woo.
Jun 01, 2009; ... PITNEY HOUSE It takes Korean-born architect Kyu Sung Woo two-and-a-half hours to reach his family retreat in Vermont. Leaving his Boston office at 4pm means that by 7pm, Woo and his wife can sit down together for supper. Not simply a weekend getaway for city dwellers however, ...
Urbanism: an ideas competition in Saemangeum in South Korea has seen Florian Beigel's ideas expressed on an epic scale.
Jun 01, 2009; ... The masterplanning of the Saemangeum estuary on the Yellow Sea coast of South Korea is one of the largest and most ambitious projects anywhere in the world. A 33km sea wall, completed in 2006, encloses 400km(2) of water that will be the site of a massive new land reclamation to accommodate ...
Jurgen Bey's Prooff venture aims to transform the way architects and product designers work together.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Prooff (which stands for Progressive Office) is a new brand based in the Netherlands aiming to change the way product designers and architects work together. Launched at the Milan Furniture Fair in March, it was one of the best-received installations and showed an ambition often lacking in ...
Lecture.(Fritz Haeg and Raul Cardenas Osuna)
Jun 01, 2009; ... LECTURE/Sustainable Thinking: Building the Modern Community. Fritz Haeg and Raul Cardenas Osuna 6 April 2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA www.fritzhaeg.com, www.torolab.org Throughout the presentations by architect Fritz Haeg and artist Raul Cardenas Osuna, ...
Exhibition.(Museum of Modern Art)
Jun 01, 2009; ... EXHIBITION/Roberto Burle Marx 100 Anos: A Permanencia do Instavel 16 July--13 September, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil www.mam.org.br Brazil is unique in having as one of its greatest visual artists a 20th-century landscape designer. The legacy of ...
Palladian Revival.
Mar 01, 2009 ... Five centuries on from his birth, the genius of Andrea Palladio still enthralls. Architecture exhibitions at London's Royal Academy of Arts are rare events: paintings and sculptures more readily draw sponsorship, publicity and blockbuster crowds. While infrequent, they have ...
Drmm house in east Anglia moves with the times; Jorn Utzon remembered; The architectural review wins the coveted IBP non-weekly magazine of the year award under the editorship of Paul Finch; AR emerging architects exposed; Peter cook in Korea.(view)
Jan 01, 2009; ... HOUSE PROUD One conspicuous feature of our more sybaritic pre credit crunch age was the apparently inexhaustible appetite for the private house--as a lifestyle statement, as a source of free money, as a place to be primped and pomaded and then traded in for something bigger and ...