http://www.architectural-review.com http://www.architectural-review.com http://www.architectural-review.com/magazine/graphics/logo.png http://www.architectural-review.com http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/architecture-becomes-music/8647050.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/architecture-becomes-music/8647050.article As abstract art forms based on rhythm, proportion and harmony, architecture and music share a clear cultural lineage. Now, through digital expression, architecture can attain new heights of creative supremacy Mon, 6 May 2013 09:00 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/computers-in-theory-and-practice/8646960.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/computers-in-theory-and-practice/8646960.article A landmark new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture unearths the digital pasts of architects Peter Eisenman, Shoei Yoh, Frank Gehry and Chuck Hoberman. Exploring the particular story of four projects, taken together they show how the computer has radically changed architectural design for ever, argues Tim Abrahams Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:24 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-evolving-role-of-the-drawing/8646928.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-evolving-role-of-the-drawing/8646928.article Read individually, drawings offer vivid and unique character portraits of their architectural authors. And today, argues Nicholas Olsberg, the dexterity of the hand is still unbeatable in quickly conveying an architectural idea Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:58 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/troubles-in-theory-part-iv-the-social-side/8644614.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/troubles-in-theory-part-iv-the-social-side/8644614.article Techno-fetishists may have argued for a scientifically determined architecture in the ’60s and ’70s, but at the same time more politically engaged voices were calling for the reinterpretation of space as an arena for the lived experiences of the everyday Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:20 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/ruins-of-utopia/8644716.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/ruins-of-utopia/8644716.article Built by Moisei Ginzburg in 1929 as a Constructivist machine for radical living, Moscow’s Narkomfin Building immediately fell foul of Stalinist orthodoxy and now rots in a climate of state neglect and apathy Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:00 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/home/the-big-rethink/the-big-rethink-urban-design/8643367.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/home/the-big-rethink/the-big-rethink-urban-design/8643367.article The fundamental purpose of urban design is to provide a framework to guide the development of the citizen. As this AR campaign reaches its conclusion, the penultimate essay attacks the City of Doing found in modernity and calls for a return to the spatial and social richness of the City of Being - necessary for the flourishing of humanity in the 21st century Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:00 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/skill-inflatable-concrete-domes/8641827.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/skill-inflatable-concrete-domes/8641827.article Frustrated by both expensive and labour-intensive methods of moulding concrete with steel or wooden formwork, Italian architect Dante Bini pioneered ‘air structures’: gigantic balloons that could be covered with a thin layer of concrete then inflated to form domes in a matter of hours Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:58 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/hanging-gardens-of-sacramento/8641934.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/hanging-gardens-of-sacramento/8641934.article Two office buildings in Sacramento, California. The Bateson Building, completed in 1978, and the Lincoln Center in 1986 take different approaches to environmental concerns, using concrete, organic materials and an unusual air-conditioning system Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:56 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/typology/typology-quarterly-museums/8640202.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/typology/typology-quarterly-museums/8640202.article Museums arrange the world according to the changing way we see it: from Renaissance memory theatres and Baroque cabinets of curiosity, via Enlightenment typologies, to Modernist teleologies and the current vogue for environmental contextualism Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:22 GMT http://www.architectural-review.com/louis-kahn-the-space-of-ideas/8637503.article?referrer=RSS http://www.architectural-review.com/louis-kahn-the-space-of-ideas/8637503.article William JR Curtis examines the resonant legacy of Louis Kahn, whose final building, the Roosevelt memorial, has recently been completed in New York Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52 GMT