The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Book review: Protest Architecture, by Nick Newman
Ellen Peirson reviews a book charting ‘the design and use of built structures to facilitate protest, civil rights and non-violent direct action’
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Film review: Brutalism with soul
Some viewers may baulk at the three-and-a-half-hour running time of The Brutalist but Rob Fiehn didn’t want the film to end
William Morris and the Middle East
Rakesh Ramchurn reports on an exhibition exploring how Islamic art influenced the work of the pioneering British designer
Highlands and Islands Enterprise framework 2025-29
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced a new building surveying services framework [Deadline: 18 February 2025]
Highland Energy Efficiency Framework
The Highland Council has announced a new £25 million energy efficiency framework [Deadline: 14 February 2025]
The crew-cut darling of Brutalism: Paul Rudolph exhibition
The work of US architect Paul Rudolph is the subject of an excellent exhibition at the New York Met. Review by David Brady
Newcastle revisits its 1960s Brutalist vision
The ideas, personalities and politics behind the aspiration to transform Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1960s and 70s are explored in Brasilia of the North, an exhibition at the Farrell Centre
Nature as art: commissioning installations for Begbroke Science Park
Oxford University Development chief executive Anna Strongman and director at creative consultancy Company, Place, Vickie Hayward, speak to Fran Williams about their public art installations at Begbroke Innovation District
Joseph Rykwert: Does architectural criticism matter?
As news breaks of Joseph Rykwert’s death, the AJ republishes a short essay from 2012, in which he argues that critics can establish a meaningful dialogue with all those who are creating the environment we live in
Book review: ABC – Schools of the Future
Rob Wilson reviews Paris-based Le Penhuel & Associés architectes’ school primer and finds it both a fun-coated bigging-up of a single practice and incredibly enjoyable. Illustrations by Quentin Vijoux