THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW Vol. 233 – 2013 SPIS TREŚCI

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EDITORIAL VIEW

OVERVIEW 10 Oscar Niemeyer remembered; Sustaining Identity conference VIEW FROM … 17 Saint-Louis, Senegal VIEWPOINTS 19 Peter Cook 20

YOUR VIEWS

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MORPHOSIS. Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, Texas, USA HERZOG & de MEURON. Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, New York, USA ROTOR. Grindbakken bunkers, Ghent, Belgium CARUSO ST JOHN ARCHITECTS. Refurbishment of Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS. Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, USA DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS. Remodelling of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

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TYPOLOGY QUARTERLY: MUSEUMS. Antonello Marotta traces the evolution of museums

REVIEWS 86 Playboy architecture; Carlo Scarpa's glass; James Wyatt; Modernism and violence: V&V furniture gallery PEDAGOGY 92 University of Bath, UK REPUTATIONS 94 Aldo van Eyck FOLIO 98 Paul Noble

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OVERVIEW 18 Transcending Cartesian dualism; architecture and ecology BROADER VIEW 22 Stephen Bayley on ugliness VIEW FROM … 25 The Arctic VIEWPOINTS 27 Farshid Moussavi 28

YOUR VIEWS

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ROBBRECHT EN DAEM & MJ VAN HEE. Market hall quarter, Ghent, Belgium MVRDV. Book Mountain library, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands RCR ARQUITECTES. Banqueting Pavilion, Restaurant Les Cols, Girona, Spain EDOUARD FRANÇOIS. Social housing in Champigny-sur-Marne, Paris, France YOUSSEF TOHNTE AND 109 ARCHITECTES. St Joseph's University, Beirut, Lebanon

REVISIT 75 The Bateson Building and the Lincoln Plaza Building, Sacramento, California, USA SKILL 86 Dante Bini's concrete domes REVIEWS 94 Juhani Pallasmaa; a history of composition; window typology; Victor Baltard in Paris; Zvi Hecker's sketches PEDAGOGY 100 KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark REPUTATIONS 102 Filippo Brunelleschi FOLIO 106 Gary Schuberth

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OVERVIEW 16 MVRDV glass farm; golden boy Peter Zumthor; the fate of Timbuktu's manuscripts library; Mies yan der Rohe Award INTERVIEW 20 Steven Holl VIEW FROM … 23 Istanbul VIEWPOINTS 25 Michael Sorkin 26

YOUR VIEWS

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SANAA. Musee du Louvre, Lens, France RYUE NISHIZAWA. Townhouse, Tokyo, Japan STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. Mixed-use development, Chengdu, China NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS. Contemporary Art Centre, Cordoba, Spain LONDON SCHOOLS: PART ONE. RCA campus, Battersea, London, UK, by Haworth Tompkins

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CAMPAIGN 83 The Big Rethink encompasses the city plan REVIEWS 94 The history of future cities; colossal engineering; Arctic icebergs; Chinese architecture and metaphor; Think-Space PEDAGOGY 100 FAUP school of architecture, Porto, Portugal REPUTATIONS 102 Fernando Távora FOLIO 114 Vasco Mourão

DODATEK: MZ ARCHITECTS 4 6 10 20 30 36

Introduction Urban Design and Masterplanning High Rise Hotels Stadiums Profile

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OVERVIEW 14 Toyo Ito wins this year's Pritzker Prize; 3D printing; Competitive Advantages symposium INTERVIEW 18 Toyo Ito COMMONWEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS 20 Student competition VIEW FROM … 27 Dhaka, Bangladesh VIEWPOINTS 29 Peter Cook 30

YOUR VIEWS

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NIALL MCLAUGHLIN ARCHITECTS. Ripon Chapel, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, UK KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES. House, Hokkaido, Japan KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES. School, Tama, Tokyo, Japan AIRES MATEUS. House, Alcobaça, Portugal LONDON SCHOOLS: PART TWO. Central St Martins, London, UK, by Stanton Williams

THEORY 83 Troubles in Theory IV: the social side EXPLORING EYE 88 Moisei Ginzburg's Narkomfin Building, Moscow, Russia REVIEWS 94 Feminist practices; Kengo Kuma monograph; Berlin 1880-1940; Corb's moment; White cube/Green maze PEDAGOGY 100 University of Johannesburg, South Africa REPUTATIONS 102 Herman Hertzberger FOLIO 106 Kengo Kuma

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OVERVIEW 14 Eileen Gray's B.1027 in jeopardy; Clorindo Testa remembered; Zanzibar; GAGA Awards; AR House REVIEW 18 Nigel Coates' pick of the Milan Furniture Pair VIEW FROM … 29 Singapore VIEWPOINTS 31 William JR Curtis 32

YOUR VIEWS

SPECIAL ISSUE: ARCHITECTURE & REPRESENTATION 34 Introduction / Will Hunter 36 The evolving role of drawing / Nicholas Olsberg 44 Computers in theory and practice / Tim Abrahams 52 Computing: Marcelo Spina and Hernan Diaz Alonso / Interviewed by Eric Owen Moss 62 Drawing: Smout Allen / Interviewed by Peter Cook and Will Hunter 72 Modelling: Sou Fujimoto / Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones 76 Montage: Barozzi Veiga / Interviewed by David Cohn 80 Peter Eisenman / Interviewed by Iman Ansari ESSAY 91 Charles Jencks on architecture and music REVIEWS 110 Massimo Scolari; Eileen Gray; The Independent Group; Saharan refugee camps; energy and architecture at Maxxi PEDAGOGY 116 Politecnico di Milano, Italy REPUTATIONS 118 Walter Gropius FOLIO 122 Antoine Vaudoyer

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OVERVIEW 15 American Folk Art Museum; Social Justice and the City; awards and prizes; Emerging Architecture launched BROADER VIEW 20 Paul Finch on planning in Britain VIEW FROM … 23 Poundbury, Dorset, UK VIEWPOINTS 25 Michael Sorkin 26

YOUR VIEWS

SPECIAL ISSUE: NEIGHBOURHOOD 28 Introduction / Isabel Allen and Will Hunter 30 Student guest house and village, Hangzhou, China / Wang Shu 46 Creating neighbourhoods / Isabel Allen 54 Analysing neighbourhoods / Lucy Musgrave 62 Newhall housing, Essex, UK / Isabel Allen 72 London Schools III: London Metropolitan / Will Hunter 83 The Big Rethink: Neighbourhood of the Future / Peter Buchanan URBANISM 94 Nicholas Olsberg TOWNSCAPE 102 Jonathan Glancey REVIEWS 110 Light Show; Modern Ruins; Building Image; The Measure of Manhattan; Ulrik Plesner PEDAGOGY 116 Architecture sans frontières REPUTATIONS 118 Léon Krier 122

FOLIO

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OVERVIEW 12 Istanbul unrest; Krier responds to Rykwert; Getty symposium; the shadow gap; Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion BROADER VIEW 24 Lucy Lethbridge on the decline of servants VIEWPOINTS 27 Barbara Penner AR HOUSE 28 Introduction to this year's winning projects JOINT WINNER 30 Grupo Aranea: Casa Lude, Cehegín, Spain 38 Tsukano Architect Office: House-T, Miyazaki, Japan HIGHLY COMMENDED 44 Projects from England, Spain, China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden SPECIAL REPORT 91 Japan after the storm URBANISM 98 Letting loose: Los Angeles in the 1970s REVIEWS 102 Architecture follows nature; Prague's surrealist history; Slip House; globalisation of architecture; Shigeru Ban on show PEDAGOGY 108 Graz University of Technology REPUTATIONS 110 John Lautner FOLIO 122 Leon Krier and Massimo Scolari, Le desespoir de Janus

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OVERVIEW 14 Kevin McCloud on self-build housing; crowdsourcing utopia; Peter Zumthor; interwar British architecture BROADER VIEW 22 Network Specifism VIEW FROM 24 Stockholm VIEWPOINTS 27 Peter Cook 29

YOUR VIEWS

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Cruz Y Ortiz, The Eijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands David Chipperfield Architects And Hok, St Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA Rudy Ricciotti, MuCBM, Marseille, France 5ln4e, C-Mine cultural centre, Genk, Belgium Dsdha, Jeweller's studio, Southwark, London, UK

HISTORY 83 The strategies of mat-building URBANISM 92 A New Sculpturalism at MOCA, Los Angeles EXPLORING EYE 96 Cathedral, Mejorada del Campo, Spain REVIEWS 102 Understanding architecture; ARU at Swiss Architecture Museum; weathering it; landscape futures; Architoctones PEDAGOGY 108 Beirut Arab University REPUTATIONS 110 Louis Sullivan FOLIO 114 Éva le Roi

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OVERVIEW 14 Ai Wei Wei and Mongolian Ghost Towns; Beyond the Documentary drawings salon; the Smart App-artment PREVIEWS 21 World Architecture Festival; London Design Festival VIEWPOINTS 27 Barbara Penner 28

Introductions to Los Angeles / Michael Webb and Nicholas Olsberg

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Unbuilt LA, The city that might have been Michael Maltzan Architecture, Housing, Skid Row, Los Angeles, California, USA Brooks + Scarpa Architects and Ehrlich Architects, Two schools, Los Angeles, California, USA Kunle Adeyemi, NLE, Floating school, Makoko, near Lagos, Mgeria Gabinete de Arquitectura, Rehabilitation centre, Asuncion, Paraguay Lederer + Ragnarsdottir + Oei, Art Museum, Ravensburg, Germany

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HISTORY 91 Anthony Vidler on Phyllis Lambert's Building Seagram REVIEWS 98 Richard Rogers at 80; James Turrell; Chinese factory towns; the Unaffordable Art Fair; Giorgio Casali PEDAGOGY 108 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago REPUTATIONS 110 Berthold Lubetkin FOLIO 114 Nigel Coates

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OVERVIEW 16 Launch of the London School of Architecture; architectural education summit; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; architecture and politics debate; Aga Khan Awards BROADER VIEW 26 Weaving and knotting as the origins of all making VIEW FROM 29 Lagos VIEWPOINTS 31 Michael Sorkin 32 82 88

Global Architecture Graduate Awards RMIT Practice Research Programme, Leon van Schaik; Tom Holbrook; Deborah Saunt NTNU, Trondheim

TYPOLOGY 91 Opera houses REVIEWS 106 Jože Plĕcnik; the architecture of war; Piranesi's Paestum; Archidoodle; a history of architectural preservation PEDAGOGY 112 Women in architecture REPUTATIONS 114 Adolf Loos FOLIO 122 Pezo von Ellrichshausen

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Introduction The Star: Critique: Beyond its role as a compelling object building, The Star reworks and reboots public space for the tropics, argues Aaron Betsky The Star: Structure: Prom the first napkin sketch to the development of a structural solution, The Star inventively deploys technology and materials The Star: Environment: Rejecting the default template of an air-conditioned mall, The Star explores and exploits strategies for natural cooling

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The Star: Construction: A series of dramatic photographs illustrate the challenges of The Star's construction phase, which took only 40 months. Day in the Life / Edmund Sumner City State: Singapore Four for the Future: A quartet of projects from Hong Kong to The Hague reflect the depth and diversity of Andrew Bromberg's work Credits Contributors

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EDITORIAL VIEW

OVERVIEW 14 Adhocism at the LDF; Log magazine's 10th birthday; Zaha Hadid at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery BROADER VIEW 20 Recasting the vision of the architect as hero VIEW FROM 23 Chingola, Zambia VIEWPOINTS 25 Peter Cook 26

YOUR VIEWS

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Tadao Ando, University of Monterrey, Mexico OMA, Stock exchange, Shenzhen, China Mecanoo Architects, Birmingham City Library, Birmingham, UK Jakob + MacFarlane, FRAG Centre, Orleans, France Shigeru Ban Architects, Cardboard Cathedral, Christclmrch, New Zealand

REVIEWS 83 Matisse in Vence; a sustainable future; architects in love; Corb the secret photographer; Brutalism; modern women in design PEDAGOGY 90 Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Kigali, Rwanda REPUTATIONS 92 Alvaro Siza FOLIO 98 'Cloud Irons' by El Lissitzky Oprac. BPK