Archive
2002 February: The American Museum of Folk Art
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
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
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
Luis Oliveira examines Oscar Neimeyer’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.
1989 July: Whats wrong with architectural education? Almost everything
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
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
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
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
This spiky pavilion in the landscape is a highly ingenious exploration of form and materials
1993 April: Mies' miraculous survivor, Villa Tugendhat
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.
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 his 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 Cook
Peter Cook is the founder of Archigram, and former Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
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)
