Review: The Vorticists

26 August 2011

With only a week left to see The Vorticists at Tate Britain, we bring you Owen Hatherley’s review of this exhibition celebrating the “insurgent avant-garde” art movement that flourished in London before and during World War One.

Review: First Works

08 January 2010

The AA brings together the debuts of the starchitects – can it offer any pointers to today’s young practices? Geoff Shearcroft looks for tips.

Megastructure Reloaded

09 July 2009
The speculative megastructures of the 1960s weren't just utopian dreaminess, they were entirely practical.

Archigram | icon 013 | June 2004

22 March 2007
Archigram’s sense of laissez-faire offered an alternative to serious modernism. but the group’s incoherence has allowed critics to ignore its truly revolutionary ideas. Perhaps it's time for a reappraisal?

Review: Future City | icon 038 | August 2006

26 March 2007

The Barbican’s survey of the architectural avant-garde over the last 50 years is like a members' club. You only make it in if you show the right kind of originality.

Superstudio - Life Without Objects | icon 001 | April 2003

21 March 2007

A retrospective of the work of the Italian collective Superstudio looks at how they took the logic of modernist rationalism to its absurd end. But how serious were they?

Cook and Fournier's Kunsthaus Graz

21 March 2007

Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's much-anticipated Kunsthaus Graz is about to open, in time to catch the end of the Austrian city's tenure as European Capital of Culture 2003.

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