Architecture today nº 269 (2016)

Forum

06 Exhibition
Drawings by Texas-based Swedish architects Lars Lerup.

08 Exhibition
With this year’s Venice Biennale theme of ‘Reporting from the Front’, Chile based curator Alejandro Aravena wants to shift architectural debate beyond mere buildings. Ruth Lang is impressed with the results.

12 Exhibitions
Utopian modernism revisited; Peter Cook’s 80th Birthday show at the Royal Academy; and six projects for ‘At Home in Britain’ at RIBA.

15 Books
Monographs on architects Peter Aldington and David Lea, and artist Constant Nieuwenhuys.

Works

16 Building
Achim Menge’s responsive, robot-designed structure takes over the V&A’s central couryard.

18 Building
Meredith Bowles on timber structures by Invisible Studio and Glenn Howells Architects at the Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire.

28 Building
The Vajrasana Retreat in Suffolk, designed by Walters & Cohen, is the UK’s first new building to be built specifically around Buddhist practice, Giles Oliver pays a visit.

36 Building
Designed by BIG, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is joined by four smaller ‘Summer Houses’ by Kunle Adeyemi, Asif Khan, Yona Friedman and Barkow Leibinger.

46 Report – museums
Herzog & De Meuron returns to Tate Modern with the Switch House, a brick-clad pyramidal extension that is both eccentric and inspiring, says Tim Ronalds.

62 Report – museums
Brendan Woods finds Christ & Gantenbein’s extension to the Basel Kunsthaus is complex, contradictory and frustrating.

68 Report – museums
Snohetta adds a contrasting extension to Mario Botta’s brickbuilt San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Focus

72 Envelope
Copper alloy roofing and timber structure at Foster & Partners’ Maggie’s Centre in Manchester.

76 Products

My Kind of Town

80 Kate Macintosh
Still lives up to its ancient Morrish name ‘City of Joy’.

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 23 de agosto de 2016 - 12:10 | Actualizado: 23 de agosto de 2016 - 12:10 | PDF