‘What is public space’ Future Cities Salon, Porto
Early 20thC Modernism sought to provide public open space within cities as a release from the confines of overcrowded, unsanitary slums.
The dangers of ‘resilience’
‘Resilience’ is a buzzword sweeping the entire industry and seemingly provides solutions for everything
The Right Time for the Night Time
The Night Time industries are vital to Britain’s future both culturally and economically.
White City Black City
This beautifully translated publication is an excellent insight to the history of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, told through their architecture.
ISIS: The mad residue of the war on terror
How did this barbaric offshoot of a terror network many thought was becoming obsolete gain what looks like such a sudden ascendency?
In defence of a Defence of Stars and Icons
We need a more journalistic nuance as well as hard-hitting intelligent critique.
The Art of Memory
Jane Sandeman | 02 February 2015 Review of ‘Suspended Sentences’ by Patrick Modiano “A Marcel Proust of our time” was how the Nobel Academy described Patrick Modiano, the French novelist who received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, an award for conferring ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’. Given only a handful of his 25-odd novels have so far been translated into English, Modiano is not exactly well-known in the...
Film Review ‘The Big City’
Martin Earnshaw | 25 January 2015 The Big City (1963), directed by Satyajit Ray, is essentially a story of modernity. The superb opening scene traces the passage of a tram cable as it winds its way through Calcutta, a city which in the 1950s and 60s could be considered as India’s foremost modern city. Although this old Imperial Capital was soon to be eclipsed by Mumbai, at that moment, to be at the forefront of change was to be in...
Film Review: ‘City Visions’ #6
Matthew Bloomfield | 7 January 2015 The Airstrip: Decampment of Modernism, Part III. Dir. Heinz Emigholz, 2014 Heinz Emigholz’s ongoing meditation on architecture continues in this feature length piece, composed around the metaphor of a falling bomb. Between the time that the bomb is released and the time that it explodes, there exists a duality where the target remains intact but is doomed to destruction. What the audience...
Film Review: ‘Precise Poetry’
Louise Bjørnskov Schmidt | 05 January 2015 “I’m an architect! I can’t go through walls! I’m not a witch! All I can do with walls is break them down.” This quote by Lina Bo Bardi is not to be understood literally; Bo Bardi did not break many physical walls since she designed only a few buildings through her career. Still, Bo Bardi is today increasingly recognised as one of the most important architects in...
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