The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Exhibition review: Studio Mumbai’s Breath of an Architect
The Mumbai practice’s takeover of Paris’s Fondation Cartier galleries and gardens presents objects and installations in a way that makes visitors find their own way through the spaces
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
The Swiss architect who brought Modernism to the New World
Having worked with Le Corbusier, Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to the US at a time when it was lacking in Modernist architecture and went on to design much of the desert city of Palm Springs, where a new exhibition celebrates his work, writes David Brady
Manplan lost issue resurrected through generative AI
Newcastle University architectural historian Stephen Parnell asked his students to create one of the AR’s unpublished Manplan issues using ChatGPT and Midjourney. Images by Vincent Woehlbier and Arthur Belime
Review: Tropical Modernism at the V&A
Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence has expressive sculpture, carefully curated archival imagery and a particular knack for narration, leaving you wanting to discover more, says Nile Bridgeman
You Get a Car (Everybody Gets a Car): Resolve Collective champions alternatives to mass consumption
The exhibition at Tate Liverpool challenges the status quo of the relationship between class and material reuse, writes Lee Ivett
Open City podcast: ‘a fast-paced and essential briefing’
Open City’s Phineas Harper tells the AJ all about The Brief – the podcast covering the big issues in British architecture, heritage, housing and planning
How Africa’s politics influenced its architecture
Local impressions of iconic buildings in Ghana, South Africa and Ethiopia form the focus of this exploration of the relationship between Africa’s buildings and its state institutions, writes Derin Fadina
Could a phoenix yet emerge from the smouldering ruins of the Mack?
Johnny Rodger’s book Glasgow Cool of Art is the only serious, intellectual examination of the blazes that wrecked this world-famous building, writes Rory Olcayto
Then/Now: photographing London’s changing skyline
A new project by photographer Jason Hawkes captures almost two decades of development across the capital
Book review: 100 Women Architects in Practice
This selection of women from across the globe includes many who are working in countries where the barriers to success make their sheer tenacity mind-blowingly inspiring, says Tatiana von Preussen