Building Studies
Two London Schools: Cottrell and Vermeulen, Agents of Change and revitalising beautiful brickwork
In stitching together disparate school campuses, these two additions reinterpret a London idiom to reaffirm the facade’s urban significance and the lost art of ornament
Wiggleworth's Wakefield School design
Reworking local urban and industrial morphologies for a human scale and young imaginations, this primary school in Wakefield transforms anomie into engagement
AAVP Architecture's Casares-Doisneau School decorates French soil
Emblematic of wider transformation in the grim flatlands north of Paris, a new school rises from the ashes of a former industrial site in Saint-Denis
Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan
Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest
Lacaton & Vassal's revitalisation of a Parisian tower block
The striking transformation of a run-down tower in northern Paris suggests an alternative approach to the physical and social redevelopment of decaying post-war housing
Lutheran church by Johan Celsing follows in the footsteps of Lewerentz
A dark brick box perforated by cool, pale light forms an austere yet serenely numinous setting for Lutheran worship in a Stockholm
Events
Emerging Architecture Spring Lecture Series
A series of three seminars and presentations by young architects from the 2011 ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture. Participants will discuss their work in general as well as describing their winning projects
Saturated Space Launch
The Architectural Review is Media Partner for the Saturated Space Cluster, a forum for the sharing, exploration, and celebration of colour in architecture
AR Internships
Internships at The Architectural Review
The Architectural Review is looking for enthusiastic architectural students and graduates to join its editorial team as part of its internship programme
Folio
Little Shining Man by Heather and Ivan Morrison
Part kite, part sculpture. Inspired by iconic tetra kites of Alexander Graham Bell and exhibited in Jersey.
The Architectural Review: February 2012
The Big Rethink
THE BIG RETHINK: Farewell to modernism's inherent lack of sustainability
The second essay in the new Campagin decries Modernism for its betrayal of our essential humanity, and puts the case for why this must be regained to achieve true sustainability. In an emerging epoch based on a vision of a ‘living, organic universe’, architecture must start again to mediate our relations between nature, place and community.
AR reader Michael Badu responds to The Big Rethink
The Big Rethink is too little too late
Essays
Typology Quarterly: Schools
In the industrial era, schools developed as highly controlled environments to instil the discipline to thrive in a machine age. Now, to prepare pupils for success in a knowledge economy, the evolving typology is more fluidly conceived to provide flexibility, connectivity, and spaces for social and educational encounters
10 Years On: Evaluating kroll’s eco school
Ten years ago, the AR published a new secondary school at Caudry in northern France by Lucien Kroll, which marked an important advance in green building. The result of an architect/contractor competition, the school had to meet a demanding list of ecological criteria. As reported in January 2002 these were met and the school got off to a good start. But how has its life developed?
TQ Schools: Rinsgtabekk School by DIV.A
This school in Norway was designed to be flexible and workshop-like in its nature, as well as energy efficient and sustainable
innovators
Innovators interview: Renzo Piano
Video: Renzo Piano is the subject of this month’s Innovators interview from the top of The Shard in London, produced in partnership with Hunter Douglas
AR 1977 July - The Museum of London by Powell and Moya
All Glorious Within - Michael Brawne’s critism of Powell and Moya’s museum for London
Theory
The Greens under Scrutiny
Roger Scruton pushes for community responsibility to save the local environment before approaching the depths of global change
MAXXI exhibition: tribute to the act of recycling
Luigi Puglisi reviews the new exhibition at Zaha’s MAXXI, which offers a large collection of drawings, buildings and projects, united by the theme of recycling
The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Drawing
Toby Lester observes the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man
