The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Why do novelists have it in for architects?
From Dickens to Ballard, architects’ treatment across literary history has not been generous, writes David Annand
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Architecture Drawing Prize overall winner named
The winning work of the Architecture Drawing Prize 2021 was announced at the Sir John Soane’s Museum last night at the opening of an exhibition of all the competition’s category winners and finalists
From the archive: Richard + Su Rogers, first four years in practice after Team 4
From starting out with Norman and Wendy Foster as Team Four architects, this profile on Richard + Su Rogers reported on their early work
‘We live in buildings – do they fit us?’ Lubaina Himid at Tate Modern
Tara Okeke visits the Tate Modern to see Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid’s largest solo exhibition to date
The Third Man: Baker, Loos And The Underwater Revue
Patrick Massey collaborates with Nana Adwoa Agyemang on constructing the latest in a series of conversations imagined between historical figures from their own words, facilitated by the anonymous ‘Third Man’
‘Everything is sculpture’ – Noguchi at the Barbican
A Barbican exhibition shines light on the career of a 20th-century sculptor who shaped stone, public space, and lampshades, writes Harriet Jennings
Cooking Sections: the Turner Prize-nominated studio that combines architecture with food
Turner Prize-nominated duo Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe use installation, performance, mapping and video to explore the systems that organise the world through food. They talk to Rupert Bickersteth
Exhibition: Photographer Hélène Binet’s Light Lines at the Royal Academy
Remi Connolly-Taylor reflects on the thoughtful beauty of Hélène Binet's photography, and how it has shaped the work of architects for decades
Exhibition: Shaping Space at the Building Centre
Shukri Sultan on a new exhibition that asks for whom, and why, are architectural models made?
Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House opens to the public
Ruth Lang visits the Cosmic House, Charles Jencks’ phantasmagorical home, which has opened its doors to the public