Books
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Academic Painter: Scolari & Representation
The trajectory of the non-building architect Massimo Scolari
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Kuma Chameleon
Kengo Kuma’s Complete Works exceeds expectations of a typical monograph, addressing the cultural and moral dimensions of the Japanese architect’s career
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Materiality Girls
Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture explores what it means to employ feminism in design, but can the exposed design methods really be considered radical?
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Cultural Crucible
Tracking the transformation of Berlin up to the second World War, Metropolis Berlin 1880–1940 is a rich, detailed anthology of the city’s changing built environment
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Potemkin cities
Daniel Brook examines the cosmopolitan condition of the modern city in his new book A History of Future Cities
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Character Building
The book Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yinzao Fashi Building Manual by Jiren Feng brings new light to the study of Chinese architectural writing
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Size Matters
Ayla Lepine reviews Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
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Juhani Pallasmaa's Sense and Sensibility
Juhani Pallasmaa’s new book Encounters II asserts ideas of the phenomenological but relies heavily on cryptic terminology
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The Sketches of Zvi Hecker
An ‘artist whose profession is architecture’, captures 16 buildings’ dynamic in space, emphasising the importance of hand drawings in a creative process which is becoming ever more software-based
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The Story of the World
A deeply researched and comprehensive work by Jacques Lucan, Composition, Non-Composition examines the history of the word in terms of architectural formulation
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George's Pet Goth Subscription
The life of James Wyatt, architect of collapsed masterpieces, is fairly recounted in new book writes Joseph Rykwert
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An outsider’s outsider Subscription
Jonathan Glancey devours a deliciously acute collection of essays, articles, and TV scripts by Jonathan Meades
Exhibitions
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Energy: zero impact
This new exhibiton is only the second so far to be developed just by the Maxxi’s curatory staff. Zaira Magliozzi writes on whether it meets the expectations of the new museum
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Clique within a clique
The artistic indiviualities of members of The Independant Group created potent synergies
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Gray Matters
As the enigmatic Eileen Gray benefits a full retrospective, Andrew Ayers asks whether it reflects on her character
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Hand of Corb
A new exhibition in Stockholm collects a vast archive of Le Corbusier’s work, including paintings, sculptures, furniture and other objects by the famous architect
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Et in arcadia ego
Ayla Lepine reviews the exhibition White Cube Green Maze: New Art Landscapes taking place at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery
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Competitive Streak
In New York, a recent exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture challenges the architectural competition’s prevalence in professional practice
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The Impossibility of Forgetting
The recent exhibition Frozen Relic: Arctic Works by ScabLAB Projects presented a series of Arctic artefacts that no longer exist, but in the digital age of precise cataloguing, are these disappearing landscapes no longer considered precious?
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Thieving Baltard! Subscription
Niall Hobhouse on the 19th century painter turned architect’s exhibition in Paris
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Window Displays
An assortment of 130 examples of windows, WindowScape provides a welcome visual record which could benefit from more rigorous descriptions
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Rearranging the deckchairs Subscription
New technology and an attention to craft enriches the experience of the new furniture gallery at the V&A
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Playboy Mansions
An exhibition of the infamous but quaint Playboy magazine reveals a publication that’s original raison d’etre was as culturally provocative as it was sexually charged
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Through a glass, brightly Subscription
Across the water from the Venice Biennale a small exhibition of Carlo Scarpa’s glass work offers more coherant viewing
Events
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Paper Primacy: fantasy architecture with purpose
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The New Socialist Village
A thinktank at the Architectural Association considers the potential and paradoxes behind this polemic research project
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Radiant City
20th Century Modernist masterplanning in South America stands charged as a catalyst for sprawling urban violence
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Going back to move forward
Ayla Lepine applauds conference analysing gothic revival worldwide
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Just for Kids: Animating Architecture
A programme of events at the Royal Academy was meant to engage young minds, but did it just get between the art and us?
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Low-fat cities
A panel at the Wellcome Centre asks: is it the task of architects to offer an antidote to social and political failings?
Pedagogy
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Pedagogy: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
A wealth of professional connections and habit to defy tradition fuels this Italian powerhouse, Matthew Barac reports from the world design capital
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Pedagogy: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Taking local marginalised neighbourhoods as urban laboratories students at UJ are encouraged to design radical schemes rooted in context
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PEDAGOGY: FAUP, PORTUGAL
Sketching and hand drawing are integral to the architecture program at FAUP despite the growing digitalisation of architecture
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PEDAGOGY: KADK, COPENHAGEN
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts continues to prioritise research in the pursuit of architectural knowledge.
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Pedagogy: University of Bath, UK
A clear sense of poetics coupled with practicality sits at the heart of student designs from the University of Bath
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Pedagogy: KNUST, Kumasi Ghana
International connections and local expertise combine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s School of Architecture, Town Planning, and Building
