2002 February: The American Museum of Folk Art

10 May 2013

Exuding a rugged, sculptural power through form and materials, a museum of folk art in Manhattan is a luminous backdrop for the exhibits 

February 1976: Hertzberger's Framework for Care

22 April 2013

Sutherland Lyall explores the inner workings of open community living for the elderly without the clinical aesthetics of a hospital, but instead beginning with a bare concrete structure 

1962 October: Royal College of Art

6 March 2013

As the Royal College of Art continues its campus expansion south of the Thames, the AR looks back to its original coverage of the groundbreaking Darwin Building on Kensington Gore

1999 April: Planet Niemeyer

13 December 2012

Luis Oliveira examines Oscar Neimeyer’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.

1989 July: Whats wrong with architectural education? Almost everything

31 October 2012

Peter Buchanan critiques the state of architectural education, claiming it is neither current or credible ” not only have curricula not been revised and extended accordingly, most schools now fail even to impart adequately such traditionally crucial skills as an understanding of construction”

March 1975: Late works of Scharoun

25 October 2012

Hans Scharoun’s architectural reputation is re examined by Peter Blundell Jones, focusing on three programmatically innovative schools designed late in his career.

1954 April: C20 Picturesque, Nikolaus Pevsner

5 September 2012

Nikolaus Pevsner defends the AR’s promotion of the Picturesque; ‘The first feeling-your-way theory of art in European history and far the greatest contribution England has made to aesthetic theory”

1930 June: Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia

25 July 2012

AR’s inter-war discoveries of Gaudi’s buildings in Barcelona and the state of “the great Church of the Holy Family”

2004 January: Sitting Pretty, 'Sitooterie' by Thomas Heatherwick

2 July 2012

This spiky pavilion in the landscape is a highly ingenious exploration of form and materials

1993 April: Mies' miraculous survivor, Villa Tugendhat

20 June 2012

The house that Mies van der Rohe built for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno, Czechoslovakia, has endured the attentions of the worst regimes of the twentieth century. The restored villa reflects the robust, enduring nature of the original design and construction.

2005 December: Rolling Bridge, London by Thomas Heatherwick Studio

18 June 2012

A new footbridge animates Paddington’s still waters.

1989 August: Parc de la Villette by Bernard Tschumi Architects

7 June 2012

La Villette is a Grand Project with enormous cultural pretensions: it is supposed to be nothing less than the first piece of Deconstructivist architecture. Bernard Tschumi’s aim has been to create a park which has no coherent meaning: one that can be experienced by each visitor in a unique way. Peter Blundell Jones, while respecting the intentions, questions whether they are achievable in a culture which retains shared perceptions

1961 May: Psychiatric Institute Milan by Vittorio Vigano

9 May 2012

A functionalist approach to a challenging brief is resolved in this unintentionally Brutalist hospital

1990 April: Platform Houses in Katsuura, Japan by Kazuyo Sejima

27 April 2012

Houses as neutral enclosures for transitory human activities, this is what Kazuyo Sejima wanted to create in her platform houses: but their reality is a great deal more imbued with presence

Reality Bytes: THE DigitalLY-MEDIATED Urban REVOLUTIONS

24 April 2012

Digital media plays an important role in the galvanisation of social movements, says social scientist Merlyna Lim, but can it ever supplant urban space?

1994 February: Henri Ciriani's Antiquities Musem, Arles, France

24 April 2012

Henri Ciriani’s new antiquities museum at Arles in southern France boldly reinterprets and extends the spatial disciplines of the Corbusian Modernist inheritance in a sensually stunning interaction of light, form and colour

MONDRIAN AND NICHOLSON IN PARALLEL

24 April 2012

This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery explores the relationship between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson

1993 February: Le Corbusier In the Sun

[ARCHIVE] The Marseilles Unite and the monuments of Chandigarh have been held up as an example of Le Corbusier’s interest in passive energy control. Christopher Mackenzie questioned these assumptions on a visit to India

2003 March: Chandigarh, Once the Future City

[Archive] After years of struggle in Rio, Algiers, Saint Die and Bogota, Le Corbusier, at the age of 62, had the rare opportunity to apply his theories to the design of a new city. Chandigarh was to be his most momentous assignment: the only urban plan of substance he implemented

1987 January: Chandigarh

The Governor’s Garden which fuses architecture and landscape in a way unparalleled in Le Corbusier’s ouvre is analysed by Caroline Constant, and set in the context of his changing attitudes to landscape.

1964 June: Chandigarh, The Assembly

The third of Le Corbusier’s major buildings on the capitol at Chandigarh - The Assembly - is discussed in this article by Charles Correa, the Indian architect who practiced in Bombay

1989 February: Three Schemes By Steven Holl Architects

21 September 2011

[ARCHIVE] Three schemes that demonstrate Holl´s ability to draw inspiration from the world of phenomena

1995 November: Chapel, Steven Holl Architects (Seattle, USA)

21 September 2011

[ARCHIVE] Steven Holl’s Jesuit chapel fuses geometry, light and colour to create an articulate symbol of spiritual intent

Peter Cook visits the Venice Biennale

28 September 2012

Asking whether the exhibits fit director David Chipperfield’s theme of ‘Common Ground’

Viewpoints: Peter Cook on Oriental Originality

20 April 2012

The West rests on its laurels, as Oriental originality emerges

Viewpoints: Peter Cook on the Death of Drawing

30 January 2012

Has the steady march of progress been detrimental to the art of drawing?

Innovators interview: Peter Cook

22 November 2011

Video: Peter Cook is the subject of this month’s Innovators interview, produced in partnership with Hunter Douglas