Typology: Bathhouse - The Architectural Review
Feb 13, 2018 · Among the oldest of the ritual heat-baths were the temazcal of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, domed stone structures guarded by the goddess Temzcalteci.These womb-like buildings were also used to heal the sick and especially for childbirth. Although numerous claims are still advanced for the health-giving properties of the sauna – most prominently the supposed stimulation effected ...
Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) - The Architectural Review
Apr 6, 2018 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Edwin Landseer Lutyens’ reputation has not so much ebbed and flowed over the years as gone through a huge tidal range. Lauded during his lifetime, his legacy drifted like a ghost through the decades immediately after his death in 1944.
Steel magnet: De Krook Library, Ghent, Belgium, by RCR …
Mar 6, 2019 · The city library of Ghent has, since its opening in March 2017, been showered with praise and enthusiastic plaudits. Designed by the Catalan office RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker Prize winners in 2017), in cooperation with Belgian architects Coussée & Goris Architecten, it has been heralded as a ‘landmark’, ‘a real meeting place’, ‘a connection point’ and, according to …
The Strategies of Mat-building - The Architectural Review
Aug 13, 2013 · To understand those decades of the last century, some context is needed. The link between Team 10’s ideas and French structuralism had already been analysed, demonstrating the belief of that generation of architects in the new social sciences, the application of relational thinking to the programme, and the legacy of linguistics to be seen in the re-organisation of architectonic and urban ...
Redressing the balance: Henri Labrouste - The Architectural Review
Nov 23, 2012 · Since 1896. Henri Labrouste (1801-75) was perhaps one of the 19th century’s most important yet, until recently, neglected architects. With very few exceptions, his small but exceptional body of work has been − remarkably − taken for granted. Brief mentions of his use of iron construction in the celebrated polemical essays of Sigfried ...
Revisit: Wall House in Auroville, India by Anupama Kundoo
Jan 18, 2023 · The striking wall that greets visitors was decided before the design of Wall House even began. The many brick kilns near the coastal town of Puducherry in south India and the thin achakal bricks that line local homes made a deep impression on Anupama Kundoo, who chose to feature them prominently: the 25mm-thin bricks were set in thick lime mortar and stacked up into a 6m-tall wall for privacy ...
MAXXI by Zaha Hadid Architects, Rome, Italy
Jul 1, 2010 · Teasingly unveiled to the architectural press last November (AR January 2010), Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI is now, finalmente, replete with art and open to the public. With an acronym punningly playing on the number 21 in Roman numerals, MAXXI is Italy’s first national museum dedicated to the art of this century, hosting ‘contemporary creativity ...
Vitra Fire Station in Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects
Feb 3, 2016 · Zaha Hadid’s first completed building is perhaps the most famous fire station in the world (apart from the one in Ghostbusters), with a gestural, pointy porch that yells ‘emergency!’. The rest of the building is a complex collection of expressionist planes, and while this formal extravagance is not entirely necessary for an emergency ...
Philip Johnson (1906-2005) - The Architectural Review
Feb 29, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The adventurous life and changing allegiances of Postmodern kingmaker Philip Johnson. With Philip Johnson one can hardly speak of the term reputation in the singular; I know of no other architect who has had so many of them, or more contradictory ones.
1960s - The Architectural Review
In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit. 1960s - The Architectural Review is an international magazine publishing essays, building studies, interviews, profiles, competitions and …