Architecture

Monday, 10 April 2023 11:11

Dubai Superlatives: The Power of Excessive Wealth

Written by Caoimhghin O Croidheain

in Architecture

Questions From a Worker Who Reads (by Bertolt Brecht, 1935)Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?In the books you will read the names of kings.Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?And Babylon, many times demolished,Who raised it up so many times?In what houses of gold glittering Lima did…

Wednesday, 08 January 2020 14:25

Red Vienna: the architecture of socialist hope

Written by Dennis Broe

in Architecture

Dennis Broe tells the story of Red Vienna Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities. Those people owning capital in cities such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up apartments that are then being used as…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 19 August 2019 15:44

Class and Culture in Los Angeles: Fear and Loathing in the City of the Angels

in Architecture

Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe excavates the contradictions of class and culture in the architecture, art and culture of Los Angeles Race is the way class is spoken in America, as Cornel West wisely pointed out, and that is especially true in the sprawling multi-cities that comprise Los Angeles. Money is the other…

Siqueiros Getty Villa LA Dodgers

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 28 October 2017 08:26

The Russian Revolution and Avant-Garde Architecture

in Architecture

Written by Jean Turner

Jean Turner looks at the dramatic changes that took place in architecture following the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound influence this had on the development of the world's first workers' state. In the nineteenth century, as in all the other arts, Russians were examining new forms of expression in architecture,…

AvantGarde Architecture Russian Revolution

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:37

'We want art back, the new art of architecture'

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Written by Nick Wright

'A model of clear thinking and informed comment' - Nick Wright reviews the Imagine Moscow exhibition at the Design Museum. “The position is this: the ecstatic period of the revolution is over. Now it's the working day — but art is holiday. And we want art back, the new art…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 15 April 2017 15:20

The architect as activist

in Architecture

Written by Peggy Deamer

Peggy Deamer, on behalf of The Architecture Lobby, introduces their manifesto. As professionalized architecture eradicates the discourse of design as labor, it does so in capitalism’s favor, not to the advantage of the profession. On the one end, the discourse of the lone genius with single authorship, creativity and talent…

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Oscar Niemeyer's futuristic civic buildings in Brasilia

Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:01

Architecture and socialism

Written by Martin George - fix

in Architecture

This section of Culture Matters is about architecture, including its role in shaping our collective future. Chris Guiton offers a foundation essay on achitecture and socialism. Architecture is an expression and a reflection of human society. It has evolved over human history in response to our changing needs, innovation in building technology…

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Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:48

Take back control: inspiring revolutionary architecture from 1917 Russia.....and 2017 London

Written by Nathan Akehurst

in Architecture

Revolutionary architecture should inspire us to take control of the built environment, says Nathan Akehurst Six visions of futures past, resurrected by London’s Design Museum in the exhibition Imagine Moscow, are a far better tribute to the centenary of the October revolution than most of the column inches written on it. It…

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