Architecture news

• 100 years of Le Corbusier: what does he mean to today’s architects?

  25-06-2023 14:00
  
  The towering and divisive figure who transformed architecture published his manifesto for modernism in 1923. Here architects including Frank Gehry and Jacques Herzog explore his legacyVers Une Architecture – Towards an Architecture – is the most influential book on the design of buildings since Vitruvius wrote his De Architectura in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It is a manifesto for modernism, arguing that the beauty and logic of machines and engineering – of viaduc
  
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• National Portrait Gallery £41.3m makeover review – a breath of fresh air

  25-06-2023 12:00
  
  Architect Jamie Fobert’s new entrance is the crowning achievement of this bold refurbishment, which opens forgotten windows and embraces the NPG’s mixed identity as temple of art-cum-tourist attractionArt critic Laura Cumming on the National Portrait Gallery reopeningThe National Portrait Gallery is a hybrid, a mongrel, a compromise – part Prado, part Madame Tussauds, a place to admire art and gawp at famous names. It’s a combination that might deprive it of the highest l
  
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• Paris exhibition aims to dispel myth of ‘primitive’ England in middle ages

  25-06-2023 08:00
  
  Rare treasures that escaped the destruction of the English Reformation show a country on the forefront of medieval and gothic artA new exhibition in Paris aims to show how England in the middle ages was very much part of Europe’s dynamic art, architectural, trade and culture scene between AD1000 and AD1500.Organisers said the event would discredit the “popular perception” – mainly across the Channel – that medieval England was “primitive and barbaric” wh
  
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