Archinect - Features

Review: The Japanese House Architecture and Life after 1945 at Barbican Centre

2017-04-05T11:29:00-04:00

The home continues to play a central role in contemporary Japanese architecture. This year, the Barbican has put together an exhibition that documents the development of post-war Japanese domestic architecture, from the traditional to the modern, drawing on the work of over 40 Japanese architects from the past 70 years.

Iconic Buildings: I work at the Barbican Centre

2017-02-15T01:30:00-05:00

For our new series 'Iconic Buildings' we speak to people who live or work in buildings of architectural significance. Is their exposure to an architectural wonder on a daily basis a source of inspiration or simply part of the backdrop?

This time we talk to Lotte Johnson, Assistant Curator at the Barbican Centre.

Utopian Modernism in London: A Series of Drifts...

2006-06-26T03:00:00-04:00

London, as a centre of industry and a magnet for heritage tourists, as a vast metropolis and an obscurantist suburban sprawl, has always been about contradictions. To understand Modernism in London one has to consider a series of antagonisms. The conflict between Empiricism and Formalism as style, between the historicist and the modern, and between socialism and capitalism in this most mercantile of capitals. These oppositions and contradictions are still present in some form, so one way to look at these paradoxes could be to set up a series of oppositions--a weighing up of dreams and realities. We will frequently come down on the side of the former, as against the spurious pragmatism of the Blairite capital. As ever, the best way to do this is to walk through the city itself...