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WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The ground is sinking. A crater nearly a kilometre wide has opened in the Siberian forest as permafrost there melts for the first time in 650,000 years. The revealed ground, depicted on the cover, is releasing thousands of tonnes of carbon into the ...
Etienne Louis Boullée (1728-1799) - The Architectural Review
WEBNov 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 ...
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 24, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Assessing the legacy of Big Ben’s creator on the bicentennial of the architect’s birth. This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) and the event is being celebrated in numerous seminars and ...
The romantic and pragmatic history of the fan vault has lessons for ...
WEBDec 21, 2010 · The fan vault is an English innovation not seen in the churches of continental Europe. It developed in the 14th century as a shell form that was inserted into existing Norman or Romanesque structures as an alternative to the Gothic arch, whose loading paths required either pinnacles or flying buttresses (or both).
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
WEBDec 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 ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 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. , Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we ...
Enric Miralles (1955–2000) - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 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 . The country’s struggle for …
Charles Moore (1925-1993) - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 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 …
Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) - The Architectural Review
WEBFeb 21, 2019 · Minoru Yamasaki embodied the American dream while feeling the sting of endemic racism. He achieved professional success and international fame as a minority architect, whose ‘otherness’ marked him as a permanent outsider to the East Coast-oriented architectural culture of postwar America. …
Yona Friedman (1923-2020) - The Architectural Review
WEBMay 11, 2022 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. His built legacy is limited, but Friedman’s utopian ideals are a serious attempt to redress inequalities of resources and space. During the last half of his long life, Yona Friedman (1923-2020) lived in a 19th-century, Haussmann-type apartment on ...