The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Heatherwick’s Humanise book: ‘A visual and textual bludgeoning’
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
POoR Collective’s Watchlist
POoR highlights eight architects, designers and artists worth keeping an eye on, with interests that include disability justice, diasporic identities, and using AI in architectural drawing
Birmingham Screwdrivers: RESOLVE’s Tools for a Disorderly Practice
As part of POoR Collective’s takeover of the AJ, RESOLVE Collective offer an inventory of used – and misused – tools that they've encountered, in the form of books, artworks, sonic transmissions and events chosen by each member of the team
Manplan’s reportage architectural photography revisited
While the RIBA showcases the 1969-70 photography of the AR’s Manplan programme, another exhibition features present-day images of one of its most famous locations, Deptford’s Pepys Estate
Finding common ground at the EASA Sheffield summer school
Laura Mark reports from the European Architecture Students Assembly, which this year took place over the first two weeks of August in Sheffield, with the theme of ‘Commons’
Site-specific sculptures interact with the Barbican Conservatory
Floating forms unfurl in Ranjani Shettar’s sculptural installation, Cloud songs on the horizon, responding both to the wildness of the conservatory’s planting and the surrounding Brutalist structure, writes Nyima Murry
Islands at the Design Museum embraces sustainable exhibition design
MSOMA Architects has designed the exhibition with sustainability and circularity in mind, creating a display that will naturally biodegrade after use
Scotland’s Architecture Fringe
Aoife Nolan looks at the work of the Architecture Fringe, co-curators of this year’s Scotland + Venice partnership for the 18th Venice Biennale
A thorough grounding in the city: Portsmouth Student Show 2023
The University of Portsmouth architecture school has a close connection to the region’s architecture scene, providing a rich canvas for the retrofit and urban renewal seen in much of the work, writes Rob Wilson
Review: Who is Herzog & de Meuron’s Royal Academy show for?
Fran Williams visits Herzog and de Meuron’s first London exhibition for almost 20 years, which opened last Friday at the Royal Academy