Accustomed to the rigors of the New Mexico desert, Antonie Predock must feel very much at home on the beaches of California. His architecture, of a graphic and tectonic character, has been reduced here to a skeleton in which the gaps are filled only
Architecture is not the only activity in which Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung are engaged. They are also interested in film as an ephemeral phenomenon within a world dominated by communication. However, when it comes to making buildings, these architec
Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest
While the genial amoeba of Willis Faber & Dumas was extruded vertically from the ground print, Norman Foster experimented with horizontal extrusion in smaller buildings. This process, which, through a repetitive structure, rationalised constructi
Built in 1971-1975 as headquarters for an insurance company that had decided to move out of London, the futuristic, sinuous, dark glass skin of Willis Faber & Dumas fitted with astonishing ease into the medieval core of Ipswich, a small town in t
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments
