Miami Modern Metropolis edited by Allan T Shulman

23 August 2010 | By Timothy Brittain-Catlin

[BOOK] This is ‘feel good’ in the sense of having a nice time in a pretty place

A survey of the informal settlement of Kalyanpuri, made by a group of students on a study trip in 2008

Learning from Delhi by Maurice Mitchell

23 August 2010 | By James Soane

[BOOK] An extraordinary field trip, seen as a journey of both discovery and un-learning

Yin Xiuzhen’s representation of New York in a suitcase, sewn from fabric, part of her Portable Cities series

Dreamlands − Paris, France

23 August 2010 | By Crystal Bennes

[EXHIBITION] Challenging the idea that architecture is a lasting achievement

Max Dudler's Art Archive Beeskow

Max Dudler's Art Archive Beeskow − Germany

23 August 2010

Berlin-based practice Max Dudler recently won a competition for the Art Archive Beeskow in Germany

Italy’s 1930s modernist colonie make undoubtedly picturesque ruins, but their Fascist past means that there is little public appetite for returning them to use

Fascismo Abbandonato by Dan Dubowitz

27 July 2010 | By Andrew Mead

[BOOK] There has clearly been a great reluctance to tackle buildings so tainted by ideology

Der Urbane Code Chinas by Dieter Hassenpflug

27 July 2010 | Updated: 27 July 2010 | By Layla Dawson

[BOOK] China has embraced media camouflage, with walls of pixels masking architecture

Casa Il Girasole, an apartment block in Rome, designed in 1950

Luigi Moretti: From Rationalism to Informalism, Rome, Italy

27 July 2010 | Updated: 27 July 2010 | By Rowan Moore

[EXHIBITION] Ambiguity was an essential characteristic of Moretti’s architecture

Johannesburg Transition: Architecture & Society from 1950 by Clive M Chipkin

July 2010 | By Catherine du Toit

[BOOK] A startling urban landscape of township, mine dump and high-rise

The cover for a 1951 issue of the AR, on which Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the editors

Visual Planning and the Picturesque by Nikolaus Pevsner – Edited by Mathew Aitchison

July 2010 | By Steve Parnell

[BOOK] Fitting planning principles for the page - Pevsner and the picturesque

The Enigma of the Arrival and the Afternoon by Giorgio de Chirico

De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus: A look into the Invisible, Florence, Italy

July 2010 | By Andrew Mead

[EXHIBITION] De Chirico’s name is synonymous with the disquiet that cities can provoke

UTOPa-1 (2008), a drawing/ digital print from the UTOPX series, by Lebbeus Woods

Rendering Speculations, London, UK

1 June 2010 | By Jack Self

[SYMPOSIUM] The art of rendering at the Architectural Association

A survey of the informal settlement of Kalyanpuri, made by a group of students on a study trip in 2008

Learning from Delhi by Maurice Mitchell

23 August 2010 | By James Soane

[BOOK] An extraordinary field trip, seen as a journey of both discovery and un-learning

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