The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Review: Tropical Modernism at the V&A
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence has expressive sculpture, carefully curated archival imagery and a particular knack for narration, leaving you wanting to discover more, says Nile Bridgeman
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
You Get a Car (Everybody Gets a Car): Resolve Collective champions alternatives to mass consumption
The exhibition at Tate Liverpool challenges the status quo of the relationship between class and material reuse, writes Lee Ivett
Open City podcast: ‘a fast-paced and essential briefing’
Open City’s Phineas Harper tells the AJ all about The Brief – the podcast covering the big issues in British architecture, heritage, housing and planning
How Africa’s politics influenced its architecture
Local impressions of iconic buildings in Ghana, South Africa and Ethiopia form the focus of this exploration of the relationship between Africa’s buildings and its state institutions, writes Derin Fadina
Could a phoenix yet emerge from the smouldering ruins of the Mack?
Johnny Rodger’s book Glasgow Cool of Art is the only serious, intellectual examination of the blazes that wrecked this world-famous building, writes Rory Olcayto
Then/Now: photographing London’s changing skyline
A new project by photographer Jason Hawkes captures almost two decades of development across the capital
Book review: 100 Women Architects in Practice
This selection of women from across the globe includes many who are working in countries where the barriers to success make their sheer tenacity mind-blowingly inspiring, says Tatiana von Preussen
Housing Atlas, Europe 20th Century review: ‘No named female architects’
An insightful survey of significant 20th century housing projects is let down by its glossing-over of contributions by women, writes Betty Owoo
Ben Blossom 1979-2023: Talented photographer with a big heart
Friends and colleagues mourn and remember architectural photographer Ben Blossom, who died last month, aged 44
Review: Georgian Illuminations at Sir John Soane’s Museum
Rakesh Ramchurn reports from an exhibition on the Georgians’ use of spectacular light shows to celebrate the age