‘Piloti’ reflects the fizz of interwar architecture
Gavin Stamp leaves his mark on architectural histories at home and abroad with his ambitious, and unfinished, study of interwar architecture
5 April 2024
Books
Reviews of books from architectural ideas to construction thinking
Favourite books: Why social justice is integral to climate justice
Chloe van Grieken picks Mikaela Loach’s book on climate justice, It’s Not That Radical
Favourite books: How Detroit’s industrial decline drove its counterculture
Wayne Head is enthralled by this account of how Detroit's underground music scene benefited from the city's industrial decline
Favourite books: 50 years on, Schumacher’s call for small is as pertinent as ever
Shankari Raj on EF Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful with its call to stop plundering the earth's resources
Unconventional projections throw a fresh light on architecture
Unusual, engaging and enlightened architectural projections feature in a new book
Architecture and taste: Do I know what I like?
Prejudice, rather than understanding, can make us too quick to dismiss or approve of buildings
Jeanne Gang: What architects can learn from grafting
Emulating plants by grafting onto and pruning existing buildings works for climate and design
Favourite books: Mierle Laderman Ukeles' analysis of care and maintenance hits home
Astrid Smitham finds common ground with Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Favourite books: you can’t measure delight in kilowatt hours
Katy Marks finds inspiration and joy in Lisa Heschong’s Thermal Delight in Architecture
Top 5 Culture stories 2023
Yasmeen Lari, Michael Hopkins and Park Hill on stage
Favourite books: Sympathies and affinities with the creative process
Geoff Shearcroft recommends Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller
Favourite books: A sublime photographic exploration of man’s relationship with nature
Naoya Hatakeyama: Excavating the Future City, by Yasufumi Nakamori
High contrast: books from John Tuomey and Thomas Heatherwick
Noisy marketing fails to eclipse the thoughtful genesis of an architect
Past, future, and now: how do we both protect and develop London?
Historian Gillian Darley explores how we might think about heritage today and tomorrow, and in the light of past mistakes, in an essay taken from London of the Future – which asks what the capital will be like in 100 years’ time
16 October 2023