The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Peter Barber’s Royal Academy architecture room is the liveliest for years
This year’s Summer Exhibition presents an enjoyably eclectic mix of exhibits, from precise models to protean artworks, says Rob Wilson
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Review: Zaha Hadid’s Moonsoon – An Interior in Japan
Hamza Shaikh visits Zaha’s Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan, an exhibition exploring the design story of the Moonsoon bar and restaurant in Sapporo, Japan (1989-90), Zaha Hadid’s first completed project outside the UK
Venice Architecture Biennale overview: light touch, heavy hitting
The Lesley Lokko-curated Laboratory of the Future is light on built work but a convincing reset of the architectural conversation, says Rob Wilson
Venice’s NEOM exhibition is an ageing starchitect fantasia
The Venice Biennale may have enlisted a more diverse range of participants, but at an exhibition on Saudi Arabia’s NEOM development, the bad old days of ageing starchitect fantasia live on
British Pavilion at Venice Biennale refuses to pander to a narrow view of architecture
Artworks celebrate the custom and traditions of the UK’s African, Caribbean and South Asian diaspora, presenting new ways to think about architecture beyond buildings
Newcastle’s Farrell Centre uses the city as a constant reference
The centre, which opened last weekend in a retrofitted Newcastle department store, seeks to engage the public with architecture and planning issues. Rob Wilson visits and meets its director Owen Hopkins
Review: Against Nature by Sam Jacob at Betts Project
Antiquarian prints and amateur landscape paintings sourced from eBay and modified with abstract geometric forms play with ideas of architecture, magic and the picturesque in Sam Jacob’s new solo show at the Betts Project
Review: Homegrown – Building a Post-Carbon Future
Derin Fadina visits an exhibition of photographs, films and innovative bio-materials exploring ways to help wean construction off its climate-damaging carbon dependency
Review: ‘Extinction Beckons’ – Mike Nelson at the Hayward
The new exhibition of Mike Nelson’s last two decades of work at the South Bank Centre is like ‘an intense meditation on dodgy and failed retrofit’, says Rob Wilson
The 1:100 Architecture Podcast: responsibility to uplift
Marianna Janowicz meets the seven women behind a podcast that discusses their experiences as architecture graduates and women of colour. Photography by Ellem Productions