Full Year Set: The Architectural Review (1987)
12 Issues in Bound Volumes | Volume CLXXXI & CLXXXII
A complete, professionally bound collection of The Architectural Review for the full year of 1987. This is a landmark year for the journal, containing the definitive Le Corbusier Centenary issue, the massive IBA Berlin special, and seminal studies on Indian, Japanese, and Los Angeles architecture.
Volumes Included:
Vol. CLXXXI (181): January – June 1987 (Nos. 1079–1084)
Vol. CLXXXII (182): July – December 1987 (Nos. 1085–1090)
1987 MONTHLY INDEX & FEATURED ARTICLES
JANUARY (No. 1079) – Theme: Celebrating Le Corbusier
Master of a misunderstood Modernism: Richard A. Etlin uncovers allusions to and theories of the past that underpin the Purist villas.
Deep space/shallow space: Thomas L. Schumacher discusses the development of Villa Stein-De Monzie photogenic tableaux via the Oeuvre Complète.
Furniture and femininity: Mary McLeod describes Charlotte Perriand's contribution to the atelier's furniture and interiors.
La Tourette and Le Thoronet: Peter Buchanan shows how the modern monastery was inspired by its Romanesque predecessor.
Baghdad: Box of miracles: Suzanne Taj-Eldin introduces Le Corbusier's posthumous work, an architectural practice in its last 20 years.
FEBRUARY (No. 1080) – Theme: Docklands Challenge
Ad hoc in the docks: 'Nomos', Norman Foster's revolutionary new furniture for Tecno.
Docklands museum competition results: Set to regenerate appropriate dockland architecture by reusing a giant warehouse.
Housing quays: Richard MacCormac's search for domestic expression in Docklands.
Vision of Mersey: Dan Cruickshank explains achievement in the Albert Dock and points to the possibilities offered by the great North Dock.
NY NJ waterfront development: The banks of the Hudson River are the scene of an even bigger developers' scramble than those of the Thames.
MARCH (No. 1081) – Theme: Architecture of Commitment
Community architecture: contradiction in terms?: E. M. Farrelly argues that community involvement in design may not be good for architecture.
Piano practice: picking up the pieces: Renzo Piano has long experimented with participation; E. M. Farrelly talked to him about the meaning.
Menil Museum: Peter Davey assesses Piano's latest built work in Houston, Texas.
Piano & Palladio: Piano's gentle conversion of Vicenza's Basilica, decorated by Palladio, into a civic and cultural centre.
Kroll's open school: The latest of his liberated buildings; in Belfort, Belgium.
APRIL (No. 1082) – Theme: Berlin: Origins to IBA
750 years of Berlin: IBA's climax coincides with the 750th anniversary of the foundation of Berlin.
NEUBAU: Douglas Clelland critiques the achievement of IBA's new-build section.
Housing, Lützowplatz: Featured Architects include Cook and Hawley and James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates.
IBA footprint: Douglas Clelland analyses IBA's impact on Southern Friedrichstadt.
STERN work: Detailed look at IBA's rehabilitation section, including work by Wilhelm Holzbauer and Otto Steidle.
MAY (No. 1083) – Theme: Good Offices
Beyond Beheer: Peter Buchanan discusses the possible emergence of a new kind of working environment.
With a human face: These new offices in Koblenz constitute a further evolutionary step from Centraal Beheer.
Arup approaches: Colin Davies takes a general look at a practice which uniquely combines size and efficiency with design excellence.
Foster at the BBC: a new glasnost: E. M. Farrelly describes Norman Foster's recently-cancelled project for the BBC in London.
Office landscaping: IBM Australia's new headquarters are blessed with an arcadian bush setting.
JUNE (No. 1084) – Theme: Public Places
Public places: The Venturi offset; Denise Scott Brown on the strip; Hellman on hospitals.
Tate and Clore: John Summerson examines Stirling's extension to London's Tate Gallery and finds the work of a master.
Symbols of civitas: Peter Buchanan examines the appropriateness of the small town hall of Valdaguna, Spain.
Above the gate: Urban intervention in a key area of Madrid; Peter Buchanan reports on a feeling of community and place.
Designs for the Hague: The Hague town hall by OMA and Richard Meier. Peter Buchanan contrasts the two.
JULY (No. 1085) – Theme: Shelter
Lagoon grouping: Building local authority housing in the Venetian Lagoon needs particular sensitivity. De Carlo has responded to tradition while avoiding kitsch.
Fitting in Fitzwilliam: Richard MacCormac reinterprets the provision of habitation. Peter Buchanan surveys the human topography.
Community squared: Danish communal housing has led the world politically. The latest scheme by the original Vandkunsten architects.
Auckland opposites: Two radically different approaches to New Zealand housing—but both have regional response.
Murcutt goes to town: Glenn Murcutt's house in a Sydney suburb making a positive contribution to Paddington.
AUGUST (No. 1086) – Theme: Indian Identity
Ritual of the city: Dan Cruickshank suggests the lessons that can be learned by the Indians' use of urban space.
Modernism and the search for Indian identity: William Curtis places post-Independence Indian architecture in its international context.
Work of three Indian architects: Six buildings by Raj Rewal, B. V. Doshi and Ashish Ganju.
Indigenous India: Romi Khosla points out essential differences between European and Indian culture.
Baker at Kerala: Laurie Baker has spent 40 years learning from, and applying, indigenous design and construction traditions.
SEPTEMBER (No. 1087) – Theme: Stretching Technology
Operation overlord's engineering: The new Lord's stand captures the essence of cricket without descending to pastiche.
Calatrava: expressive engineering: Peter Buchanan celebrates a poet of technology.
Foster's Mexican waves: Televisa's broadcasting corporation headquarters elaborates on endogenous technology.
Technica: the quiet game: Recent projects by Renzo Piano give new interpretations of technology.
Crystal table: The building with a glass structure: is this Modernist dream a phantasm?
OCTOBER (No. 1088) – Theme: Culture in the City
Close culture: The new cultural centre in Cologne is intended to lock the centre of the city together.
Split on the Seine: Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe; does it work? Colin Davies criticises.
Münster division: Colin Davies examines the Bolles Wilson design for Münster public library.
Catalan Constructivism: Peter Buchanan looks at a school centre near Barcelona.
Giza-giza and the difficult whole: Richard Weston on the work of the AR Critics' prizewinners.
NOVEMBER (No. 1089) – Theme: Japan
Tadao Ando: Tea house, Osaka; Higashi Yamagawa house, Kyoto; Koshino house, Tokyo.
Shin Takamatsu: Origin III Building, Kyoto; Week Building, Tokyo; Yamamoto International Building.
Itsuko Hasegawa: Yamato International Building; House in Nerima; House in Saitama.
Police boxes: Tokyo's police boxes are a surprising outlet for architectural expression.
Design review: Japan's new generation of metal furniture; Japanese graphics; display lighting.
DECEMBER (No. 1090) – Theme: New Light on LA
The Usonian legacy: Kenneth Frampton examines the evidence for an ecologically-based LA architecture.
Frank Gehry: Frank Gehry talks to Frances Anderton about his home town.
Origins and innovations: Thomas Hines traces tradition in L.A. and describes major public projects in the pipeline.
What price Paradise?: Mike Davis on the controversial redevelopment plan for Hollywood.
Crisis in the Fourth Ecology: John Pastier discusses the demise of Autopia and the future of the LA environment.
CONDITION AND VALUE
Professional Binding: Sturdy, heavy-duty cloth binding with original covers and advertisements preserved.
Collectible Issues: Features the essential 1987 "Special Issues" (Le Corbusier, IBA Berlin, India, Japan, and LA).
Reference Quality: Each issue is packed with high-fidelity photography, detailed floor plans, and technical cross-sections.
Professional Binding: Sturdy, heavy-duty cloth binding with original covers and advertisements preserved.
Collectible Issues: Features the essential 1987 "Special Issues" (Le Corbusier, IBA Berlin, India, Japan, and LA).
Reference Quality: Each issue is packed with high-fidelity photography, detailed floor plans, and technical cross-sections.