AR History
The Architectural Review was founded in 1896, on the cusp of the 20th century. The cover of the first issue bore the legend ‘a magazine for the artist and craftsman’, though this subsequently became ‘artist, archaeologist, designer and craftsman’, thus firmly setting its sights on Victorian polymaths everywhere
Colin Boyne
Colin Boyne was the editor of The Architects’ Journal from 1949 to 1970 and then chairman of the editorial board of the AJ and the AR between 1970 and 1974, while both titles were still owned by the Architectural Press
Colin Rowe
Colin Rowe is a British-born but Americanised architectural historian, critic, theoretician and teacher. He is widely acknowledged as a major intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism in the second half of the 20th century and beyond, particularly in the fields of city planning, regeneration and urban design
Ian Nairn
Ian Nairn was an architectural critic and topographer who made his name with a special issue of The Architectural Review entitled Outrage (which was later published as a book in 1959)
JM Richards
James Maude Richards was born at Epsom, Surrey, in 1907. Educated at Cambridge University, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association, but his main career was as a writer on architecture
John Betjeman
John Betjeman was an English poet, writer and broadcaster. He worked at The Architectural Review from 1930 to 1935 as assistant editor, following the magazine’s publication of some of his freelance work
Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey cemented his career as critic as assistant editor of The Architectural Review in the 1980s, under the editorship of Peter Davey
Nikolaus Pevsner
Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Germany in 1902, and later moved to Britain where he remained for remained for the rest of its life, thoroughly embedded in its architectural community.
Paul Finch
Paul Finch, has been editor of almost all of Britain’s architectural titles: first Building Design (1983-1994), then The Architects’ Journal (1994-1999), and finally at The Architectural Review (2005-2008)
Peter Davey
Peter Davey edited The Architectural Review from 1982 to 2005. He has written numerous books including Arts and Crafts Architecture (1997) - which definitively documented this pivotal period in English architecture - and numerous later monographs on subjects such as Wilkinson Eyre (2007) and Heikkinen & Komonen (1997)
Reyner Banham
Reyner Banham was staff writer for the AR between 1952 and 1964. He was a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his seminal theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
AR January 1987 − Introduction: Corb 87, the master of misunderstood modernism by Peter Buchanan
[ARCHIVE] Peter Buchanan introduces the 1987 AR issue marking the centenary of Le Corbusier’s birth, first published January 1987
AR January 1931 − Essay: New Delhi, the individual buildings by Robert Byron
[ARCHIVE] Robert Byron performs a detailed criticism of works of Lutyens and Baker in New Delhi, first published January 1931
AR January 1931 − Essay: New Delhi, the first impression by Robert Byron
[ARCHIVE] Robert Byron’s essay on the capital of India, New Delhi, prior to the cities official opening in February 1931
AR March 1947 − Essay: The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Palladio and Le Corbusier compared
[ARCHIVE] Colin Rowe’s essay on The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Palladio and Le Corbusier compared, first published March 1947
AR July 1983 − Essay: High-Tech by Peter Buchanan
[ARCHIVE] Peter Buchanan’s essay on the High-Tech, another British thoroughbred
