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The Pop-up Problem: Does the Obnoxious Phenomenon have Hidden Depths?
As vacuous as the modern pop-up may be, the latent possibilities of their reckoning with permanence should not be forgotten
Lego's New Architecture Studio Fails to Think Outside the Blocks
Lego is launching a new £149.99 set of bricks for building architectural models but its vision of architecture’s potential seems unusually blinkered
GAGA Entry Deadline Extended to the 4th of August
The deadline for entries to the AR’s Global Architecture Graduate Awards 2014 has been extended to the 4th of August
The AR's Alternative Designs of the Year Video
In a sideways take on the Designs of the Year Awards, James Haldane introduces The Architectural Review’s pick of products, technology and buildings that change lives for the betterFilm Interviews
Film: Charles Jencks critiques the 2014 Venice Biennale Video
‘Architecture is a better profession than doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants and all the other options,’ argues critic, writer and godfather of Postmodern architecture, Charles Jencks
British Pavilion Curators Interview: Crimson Architectural Historians Video
Wouter Vanstiphout and Michelle Provoost discuss this year’s British Pavilion’s exploration of the intersection of popular culture and 20th century architecture
Interview with Golden Lion winner Phyllis Lambert Video
Film interview with the founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the woman behind the Seagram Building in ManhattanGAGA 2014
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Visual re-education: the cover story
Alan Powers on the AR’s progressive relationship between cover and content -
Lest we Forget: The Kigali Genocide Memorial
Dealing with the events that changed a nation, Rwanda’s Kigali Genocide Memorial, master planned by John McAslan + Partners, combines iconic forms with sensitive space-making -
Drone City: How Unmanned Drones Will Change Urbanism For the Better
As legislation struggles to keep pace with an explosion of unmanned aircraft, the drone is changing ideas of privacy, transport and creativity -
Film: Charles Jencks critiques the 2014 Venice Biennale
‘Architecture is a better profession than doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants and all the other options,’ argues critic, writer and godfather of Postmodern architecture, Charles Jencks -
View from Fukushima
Three years on from the Tohoku tsunami, Fukushima is still struggling to come to terms with the disaster, reports David Garcia -
Think or Swim: Reassessing our Adaptation to Climate Change
Responding to the IPCC’s recent message of ‘adapt to survive’ requires more than bigger dams. Rather than change how we build, we must change how we think, writes Kit Jones -
Good, Bad and Fugly: Nigel Coates on Monditalia
Nigel Coates critiques Monditalia at the Venice Biennale, an exhibition on the culture and history of Italy -
Playing the Architect: Why Video Games and Architecture Need Each Other
As game designers turn to architects to develop their worlds, the suprisingly historic relationship between architecture and computer games is thrown into relief, full of unexplored potential -
The Carnival of Thought: Charles Jencks on the Venice Biennale
Charles Jencks critiques Fundamentals, the Biennale curated by his former student Rem Koolhaas -
British Pavilion Curators Interview: Crimson Architectural Historians
Wouter Vanstiphout and Michelle Provoost discuss this year’s British Pavilion’s exploration of the intersection of popular culture and 20th century architecture -
Out of the Ashes: A Blueprint for Recovery
In the charged contexts that follow major atrocity and disaster, architecture is key to finding a means of recovery and redemption, writes Jon Snow -
The Flying Dutchman: Charles Jencks Interviews Rem Koolhaas on his Biennale
In this exclusive interview for The Architectural Review, Rem Koolhaas and his former architecture tutor Charles Jencks debate the morality, message and meaning behind this year’s Venice Biennale -
Exhibiting the Immaterial: Architecture Gone AWOL
Tackling the elusive brief of an architectural exhibition, Sto Werkstatt’s offerings were a refreshing break from Clerkenwell Design Week’s commercial dominances -
Editorial: Who Needs Architecture Critics?
More than ever, architecture is in need of provocative, engaging and entertaining critics -
View from Beirut
Gripped by a wave of gentrification, Beirut’s coastal promenade acts as an enduring social mixer for an increasingly ghettoised populace, says the AR’s Middle East correspondent -
Schindler's Lift: Bethlehem Baptist Church Resurrected
RM Schindler’s only surviving public building, seemingly doomed to extinction for decades, is enjoying a facelift that will not only restore it, but may finally fully realise the original design -
Rwanda Nouveau: Remodelling a Nation
Twenty years since the devastating genocide, Rwanda is a transformed nation. Killian Doherty reports on the capital’s attempt to remodel itself as the Singapore of Africa -
A Cover Story: 18 of the AR’s Most Striking Covers
Collected here are 18 striking covers charting the trajectory of the AR’s editorial ambition and highlighting key moments of its 117-year story -
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Celebrates On-The-Ground Architectural Criticism
Inga Saffron becomes one of only six other architecture writers to receive the award -
Playing it Hard and Soft: Trends in Material Mimicry
Milan Design Week was packed with works from designers who boldly subvert material conventions -
Interview with Ron Arad at Clerkenwell Design Week
Israeli designer Ron Arad talks to James Haldane about the Tailor My Tom Vac project with furniture company Vitra, and shares his belief in design’s perpetual capacity for innovation -
It’s Curtains for the Mummers Theater
John Johansen’s Oklahoma City masterpiece loses its long battle for survival -
Bridesmaid Syndrome: Farrells unveil China's Second Tallest Tower
Widespread billing of Farrells new tower in Jinan as ‘the second tallest building in China’ is up there with the 4.1 minute mile and the astronaut who wasn’t Buzz Aldrin, writes the AR’s China correspondent Austin Williams -
Adversity Breeds Innovation: Detroit's Motors for Growth
Despite Detroit’s tale of riches to rags, the city is brimming with optimism and creativity
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The Potentiality of Architectural Curating in the Albanian Pavilion
The Albanian Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale addresses the perennial problem of exhibiting architecture -
Jane Drew
Shrouded in rumours of misdemenour and spying, Jane Drew’s life was richly packed with exciting opportunities and mayor projects -
Good, Bad and Fugly: Nigel Coates on Monditalia
Nigel Coates critiques Monditalia at the Venice Biennale, an exhibition on the culture and history of Italy -
Fair Enough: The Russian Pavilion
A room of salespeople peddling the architectural ideas of Russia’s history from banal cubicles makes for a subversive pavilion poking fun at trade shows and the Biennale itself -
Testing Grounds: The Japanese Pavilion
Japan’s Biennale Pavilion presents the complex web of earnest 1970s architects whose, largely unsung, endeavours connect Japanese ... -
Hard Graft: The Italian Pavilion
In the shadow of the Biennale’s vast Moditalia exhibition, the Italian pavilion presents Modernism’s impact on the country as a lineage of, often incongruous, architectural augmentations -
Bricks and Morals: The German Pavilion
Architecture as propaganda: Curators Alex Lehnerer and Savva Ciriacidis reconstruct the politically charged 1964 Kanzlerbungalow intersecting with the German Pavilion in a curatorial move that is both disarmingly simple while loaded with ethical complexity -
Modernism in the Dock: The French Pavilion
Tied together by Jacques Tati’s film, Mon Oncle, Jean-Louis Cohen’s French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale makes both prosecution and defence of Modernism’s legacy across France -
Building Nationhood: The Polish Pavilion Grapples with Politics
A detached slab of marble apparently hovers above six columns in the centrepiece of the Polish Pavilion - a seemingly impossible hallucination that recreates the Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz 1937 funereal monument -
Export Values: The Nordic Pavilion
The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale tells a fascinating story with photographs, films and documents, but fails to make the best use of its remarkable setting -
Into the Fun Palace: The Swiss Pavilion
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Swiss Pavilion transforms an archive into a living, dynamic space, with the work of Cedric Price and Lucius Burckhardt unfolding in a choreographed display of student-pushed trolleys -
Monolith Controversies: The Chilean Pavilion
Winner of the Silver Lion, the Chilean pavilion, featuring a ceiling panel produced in a Soviet factory, is a brilliant demonstration of the political implications of modernity -
Comrades of Construction: The South Korean Pavilion
Winner of the Golden Lion and one of the Biennale’s most politically charged exhibitions, the South Korean Pavilion retraces both North and South Korea’s paths through Modernism, hinting at the potential of a reunified whole -
From Igloos to the Internet: The Canadian Pavilion
Canada ups its game at the Venice Biennale with a Special Mention winning exploration of the forms modern arctic architecture could take in the face of rapid development -
A History of Arabia in 100 Buildings: Bahrain's Biennale Pavilion
In its third contribution to the Venice Biennale, Bahrain’s surveying of the Arab world through 100 buildings presents an optimistic and timely sense of shared identity -
Places of Power: Austrian Pavilion Sizes up Parliaments
Collecting together simplistic models of over 200 parliament buildings, the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale confronts architecture’s relationship with politics and power at its most basic level -
Belgian Biennale Pavilion’s Blank Canvas
The Belgium Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is a richly researched collage of domestic adaptations, but its verbose descriptions of everyday interiors strays towards pretentious -
Cruise Control: Moscow's Homosexual Hang-outs
Yevgeniy’s photobook of now desolate cruising sites in Moscow contests Putin’s intolerant neo-nationalism -
Carlo Mollino
The ‘dangerous erotomaniac’ Carlo Mollino’s architecture formed the backdrop to his increasingly bizarre photographic fantasies -
Dark Satanic Orange: Biennale British Pavilion Bereft of Bite
The amusing collaboration between FAT and Crimson for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale joyfully celebrates the heyday of British Modernism but lacks a critical voice -
In the Best Possible Taste: William Kent at the V&A
An exhibition at the V&A traces the work of William Kent, the under-appreciated architect who could turn his hand to anything -
Evading Identity: The Institute of Contemporary Art
Anne Massey and Gregory Muir’s book delves into 22 years of the ICA’s slippery history to make sense of its elusive status -
Losers Rule: Architecture's Best Failures
Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s Bleak Houses, examining the architects who failed the tests of their contemporary critics and historians, is a provocative look at architectural meaning -
At your Convenience: The Story of the Modern Bathroom
Through a vast and vivid selection of examples, Barbara Penner investigates the home of our most basic self-image: The bathroom
It's a Small World, After All Subscription
Nicholas Olsberg reflects on the history of the now rehabilitated Ground Zero site through the story of Minoru Yamasaki’s World Trade Center
Critical Mass: Why Architectural Criticism Matters
By seeing beyond the glittering novelty of form, it is criticism's role to assess and promote the positive effects architecture can bring to society and the wider world
Limbo Architecture: Painters of Modernism Subscription
Interpreted by painters in many different ways, Modernism continues to be a compelling subject matter and muse that encourages artists to go beyond notions of simple representation and instead seek to evoke something more profound
Reyner Banham: The New Brutalism Subscription
In his seminal 1955 essay Architectural Critic Reyner Banham attempts to codify the then emerging architectural movement of Brutalism-
Cities for Life: World Urban Forum 2014
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Lego's New Architecture Studio Fails to Think Outside the Blocks
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GAGA Entry Deadline Extended to the 4th of August
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11 Things to know before starting architecture school
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Film: Charles Jencks critiques the 2014 Venice Biennale
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Playing the Architect: Why Video Games and Architecture Need Each Other
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The Sandcrawler in Singapore by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas
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Welsh School of Architecture Degree Show: 9-12 July
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Global Architecture Graduate Awards 2014 Launched
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