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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · After this initial work, Niemeyer continued to produce remarkable projects in the major Brazilian cities. The theme of the free plan was developed in his own home, Das Canoas House (1951-53) in the middle of the lush forest of Tijuca in Rio, as well as in the amazing Edifício Copan (1951-57), a large residential building in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis.
A Threshold, India - Winner, AR Emerging 2024
Nov 14, 2024 · The brise‑soleil has become a signature element of A Threshold’s work – resolved variously in brick, terracotta tile, stone and ferrocement – and Ankalge and Nayak see them as an opportunity to draw civic value from the typically inward‑facing typology of private housing.
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
Apr 24, 2012 · Biography. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Education Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Taught to draw by his father. Key buildings Houses of Parliament, London (1844)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) - The Architectural Review
Oct 18, 2022 · Hundertwasser’s architectural principles redefine relations between urban space and nature to imply interconnectedness, modesty and interdependence; these are manifested in the way he designed and justified the incorporation of green roofs, which feature in all of his architectural projects.
AR House 2024 shortlist revealed - The Architectural Review
Nov 18, 2024 · It is very rare for two projects by the same practice to feature on the shortlist. It happened once before, in 2014, with two houses by Marie-José Van Hee Architecten.This year, the shortlist includes two projects by Gianni Botsford Architects.
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) - The Architectural Review
Feb 14, 2020 · At the age of 78, in a key scene of the documentary movie Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres, Hassan Fathy was interviewed at his Ottoman-Mamluk flat, at the foot of the Cairo Citadel.Swathed in a brown cloak, he walked back and forth on the house’s rooftop with the ensemble of Cairo’s buildings and the dome and minarets of …
From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets
Sep 7, 2021 · Street lighting might seem like a product of modernity, but there is little new about it. The Romans illuminated their city streets at night and Islamic cities from Baghdad to Cordoba were lit when most of Europe was living in – in terms of street lighting – the so-called Dark Ages. A simple piece of street furniture changed it all.
Thatch is back: a traditional material could inform new sustainable ...
Jun 28, 2023 · T hatch almost disappeared across Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. The exception is the low‑lying and watery terrain of the Netherlands, where reed beds – and consequently thatch materials – were part of the vernacular.