• Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture

    Herzog & de Meuron review – inscrutable show puts life before architecture
    Royal Academy, London
    This fascinating if oblique showcase of the remarkable Swiss practice’s work explores the way buildings are made and inhabited, rather than the structures themselvesThere is a 37-minute film, in the centre of the Royal Academy’s exhibition of the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, that hardly seems to be about architecture at all. Made by the Italian-French partnership of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, it focuses on a 20-year-old rehabilitation centre

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