The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
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
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Shubha Taparia‘s Crescent – art in the scaffolding
Crescent, the latest work by artist Shubha Taparia, reimagines and recontextualises the notion of urban transformation
Mass Collective presents multifarious capital in new show ‘Londons’
In the first physical show from new photographers’ group Mass Collective, the many faces of London during lockdown are explored
Pablo Bronstein’s hellish exhibition at the Soane – an OTT capriccio
Hell in its Heyday reprises Bronstein’s fascination with architecture – here pumped up in a riot of ultra-conspicuous consumption and material excess which leaves little space for the viewer’s imagination, says Rob Wilson
The Third Man: Coward A Clough Yn Y Collodi Cymraeg
The second in a series in which Patrick Massey constructs imagined conversations between historical figures from their own words, facilitated by the anonymous ‘Third Man’
Delayed David Adjaye-curated Royal Academy Summer show opens
The show is cool, calm and well-corralled if missing a bit of magic, writes Rob Wilson
A polymath of Modernism: Sophie Taeuber-Arp at Tate Modern
Harriet Jennings appraises the first UK retrospective of the work of prolific transdisciplinary Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Spanning the gap: ‘Whether bridges or buildings – ultimately it is all design’
Esperance Bridge by Moxon Architects and Arup, which opened in July, takes its form and colour from the lost railway bridges of the Regent’s Canal. Rupert Bickersteth speaks to Moxon’s Ben Addy and Ezra Groskin about the project
Hand-drawn: Sarah Wigglesworth
Given all the digital aids available, what is it with architects and the hand-drawn? We asked a number of practitioners to talk through a specific free-hand sketch of theirs and how hand-drawing in their practice reflects their attitude to making architecture
Hand-drawn: Collective Architecture’s Jude Barber
Given all the digital aids available, what is it with architects and the hand-drawn? We asked a number of practitioners to talk through a specific free-hand sketch of theirs and how hand-drawing in their practice reflects their attitude to making architecture