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The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Concrete is the most consumed material on the planet after water, with more than 10 billion tonnes produced each year. Unlike water, it is a human-made product that is wrenched, crushed and sweated out of the environment.
Enric Miralles (1955–2000) - The Architectural Review
Jul 26, 2021 · Enric Miralles i Moya (1955–2000) graduated from the ETSAB (the architecture school of Barcelona’s Polytechnic University of Catalonia) in 1978, the year Spain’s constitution was enacted after nearly four decades of fascist dictatorship and following a complicated transición. The country’s struggle for democracy was a tumultuous period ...
Etienne Louis Boullée (1728-1799) - The Architectural Review
Nov 21, 2016 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. No amount of careful philology will ever fully explain Boulleé’s extraordinary dream or evocative influence. Throughout the 20th century, numerous architects whose careers were cut short by the French Revolution have been re-entered one by one into ...
‘Complexity and Contradiction changed how we look at, think and …
Dec 22, 2016 · Not many architecture books have defined a specific historical moment in the way Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture has; a book that, published 50 years ago and in print to the present day, fundamentally changed how we look at, think and talk about architecture.The architectural historian Vincent Scully’s famous assessment of Venturi’s treatise as ‘probably ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene. Ando-reputations-illustration-architectural-review-lili-zarzycki. In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows ...
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. In 2003, at the age of 96, Oscar Niemeyer designed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. At the time, he was a living legend: the last active modern architect.
Essays - The Architectural Review
The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The AR looks beyond isolated buildings, commissioning in-depth theoretical essays that engage with the wider social, cultural and political context architecture sits in, as well as the impact and potential of architectural cultures and practices.
Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
Aug 16, 1997 · Since 1896. Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure. First published in AR August 1997, this piece was republished online in August 2015.
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
Dec 19, 2014 · Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, St Louis, 1965. A 192-metre vision in stainless steel, the Gateway Arch is national expansion writ large, an icon of mid-century Modernism that has become architectural shorthand for the city of St Louis. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, the catenary arch was technically ...
Charles Moore (1925-1993) - The Architectural Review
Jul 28, 2017 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Charles Moore was the wizard who led us out of the sterility and self-importance of Modernism and showed us that we could go home again. Charles Moore, the Oberon, Merry Prankster, and Mystical Guru of late-20th-century architecture, had the ability to ...