REVIEW
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, Russia
Pushing at the boundaries of the conventional academy, this architecture school is where technology meets internationalism
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination
The Royal Academy reflects on the 350th anniversary of the architect’s birth
MONDRIAN AND NICHOLSON IN PARALLEL
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery explores the relationship between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MoMA
New York’s Museum of Modern Art joins the conversation about the national financial/housing debacle
John Pawson's Visual Inventory
The architect’s ‘obsessive’ passion for the photography collected in his new book
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of the best of British design
Houses without windows
Jeroen Hofman photographic book of the architectural props used to train the western military paint a gloomy picture of archetypal european community
Guerrilla gardening in the city
Revolutionary purposes of nature are not forgotten at The Garden Museum’s green fingured exhibition
An evening with the Mayne Man
Thom Mayne disposes of the myth of the Great Architectural Creators in his SCI-Arc lecture In Los Angeles
Scenes, Actors and Spectacles
Starchitectural Review: Exploring the process of procurement within today’s pluralism
Reputations
AUGUSTUS PUGIN
Assessing the legacy of Big Ben’s creator on the bicentennial of the architect’s birth
Reputations: Pancho Guedes
To his friends, colleagues and pupils Pancho Guedes is a unique source of creative inspiration and wisdom
Reputations: Alison and Peter Smithson
Steve Parnell elaborates on the extraordinary lives of The Smithsons
Reputations - Mies van der Rohe
William J R Curtis, author of the seminal texts Modern Architecture Since 1900 and Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, writes on the ‘lucid quietude’ of Mies van de Rohe
FROM BERLIN TO NEW YORK: THE ZIGZAG CAREER OF DANIEL LIBESKIND
William JR Curtis tracks the uneven trajectory of Daniel Libeskind’s career, from early success to later derailments
Views
Michel Mossessian in conversation with Lucy Bullivant at the V&A
A video interview with founder of the global practice Mossessian & Partners
Reality Bytes: THE DigitalLY-MEDIATED Urban REVOLUTIONS
Digital media plays an important role in the galvanisation of social movements, says social scientist Merlyna Lim, but can it ever supplant urban space?
Design March of Progress
The Design March exhibition in Reykjavic shows Iceland’s energetic design scene emerging from the country’s infamous economic crash
View from Iran
In a country blighted by mass urbanisation and mediocre planning, Iran’s mountain villages retain a strong sense of vernacular identity
