Full Year Set: The Architectural Review (1984) 12 Issues in Bound Volumes | Volume CLXXV & CLXXVI (175 & 176)

1984 stands as a monumental year in the Review’s history, dominated by the completion of James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the launch of the IBA Berlin "Berlin as Model" project. The year features critical evaluations of High-Tech architecture, the emergence of the "performing arts" as a dominant typology, and extensive explorations of regional identity and the continuity of tradition.

JANUARY 1984 (No. 1043) – Theme: Preview '84

• Preview '84: Anthony McIntyre

• Housing in Lavender Dock, London, by MacCormac, Jamieson & Prichard

• Tank farm at Nicholas Grimshaw's ink factory

• The Gordon Russell Furniture Award 1984

• In the beginning was the end: Anthony McIntyre

FEBRUARY 1984 (No. 1044) – Theme: Museums: the continuity of tradition

• High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia: RICHARD MEIER: Alan Balfour argues the case for Meier as principled architect of the new Enlightenment

• Burrell Museum, Glasgow: BARRY GASSON ARCHITECTS: Jonathan Glancey reveals a twentieth-century interpretation of the Academy of Antiquity

• Museum and tourist office, Kempsey, NSW: GLEN MURCUTT: Australian museum mixing scientific Modernism with the spirit of the Outback

• Museums: mirrors of their time?: Michael Brawne studies the museum as building type and the effect new technology has on museum plans

• National Gallery: progress report: Peter Buchanan assesses the outcome of this befuddled competition

MARCH 1984 (No. 1045) – Theme: Images and imagination

• The potent image: Peter Davey reflects on drawing and reality

• Cook's chefs-d'oeuvre: Peter Cook's graphic architecture has influenced two generations; Nigel Coates traces the history

• Trompe l'oeil: Martin Meade discusses the ways in which French eighteenth-century architects exploded their spaces using two dimensions

• Tracing a Palladio elevation: Dan Cruickshank explains the enormous influence of just one of Palladio's elevations

• The Morris papers: To celebrate William Morris' 150th birthday Edward Cullinan pays tribute to Morris as man and designer

APRIL 1984 (No. 1046) – Theme: The Performing Arts

• Performing Arts Center, Cornell University: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates in America

• Fogg Museum extension, Harvard University: Stirling builds for the Ivy League. Val K. Warke approves

• Television studios, Limehouse: TERRY FARRELL PARTNERSHIP: Peter Buchanan discusses Farrell's latest building programme

• Theatre, Jväskylä, Finland: ALVAR AALTO: Markku Komonen reports on the building of a posthumous playhouse

• Space Wagner: Peter Rice: Fit-up opera. Peter Davey describes a theatrical innovation

MAY 1984 (No. 1047) – Theme: Is there a British architecture?

• Barnes Church, London: EDWARD CULLINAN ARCHITECTS: Rebuilt by Edward Cullinan Architects, Barnes church is an interweaving of tradition and innovation

• Oxford ice rink: NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW & PARTNERS: Nicholas Grimshaw's latest High- Tech masterpiece

• The Cambridge School: Dean Hawkes surveys the history of the school that has probably had a more sustained effect on British architecture than any other

• Hopkins' rules: Colin Davies investigates the design approach of High-Tech architects Mike and Patty Hopkins

• Is there a British tradition?: AR asks major foreign critics and key British architects

JUNE 1984 (No. 1048) – Theme: Landscape in the City

• Liverpool Garden Festival: Richard Stiles compares the Liverpool Garden Festival with the 1983 Munich garden show

• Regenerating Barcelona: Oriol Bohigas' strategy to renew the city and follows with an appraisal of nine projects

• Valencia links: BOFILL'S TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA: Jonathan Glancey describes the proposed riverbed park

• House of elements in Rustic Canyon and house near Los Angeles: CHARLES JENCKS: Jencks describes his own garden

• Thames: London's river space: Simon Rendel pleads for a landscape plan for the Thames

JULY 1984 (No. 1049) – Theme: Technology as tools and trappings

• High-Tech hospital: UHSC ARCHITECTS: Peter Buchanan analyses how investment in High-Tech makes a better hospital in Alberta

• Kent echelon: EVANS & SHALEV: Colin Davies shows how the architects use industrial off-the-peg components to create a new, humane, industrial architecture

• Living in space: Jan Kaplicky and David Nixon argue that design for outer space can have profound lessons for terrestrial architecture

• Crystal exemplar: Robert Thorne questions the myth of the Crystal Palace. Was it really so influential?

• St Louis vault: HELLMUTH, OBATA & KASSABAUM: Two surveys of industrial design compared

AUGUST 1984 (No. 1050) – Theme: The uses and abuses of history

• AT&T, New York: JOHNSON/BURGEE: Reyner Banham takes a first look at the AT&T building, Manhattan

• Ungers' boxes: O. M. UNGERS: Architecture of German Rationalism takes a turn-of-the-century villa and radically transforms it into a modern museum

• Modern transformations of Classicism: William Curtis shows how the masters of the Modern Movement used history in subtle and complex ways

• Ephemeral Olympic tradition: Derek Walker explains how the Olympics tradition is interpreted in Los Angeles

• McKim, Mead & White's Low house: Richard Guy Wilson shows how the house drew on precedent and has influenced architects ever since

SEPTEMBER 1984 (No. 1051) – Theme: Berlin as Model / IBA Berlin

• Berlin As Model: Doug Clelland explains the nature of IBA. He believes that it could be a model for western urbanism

• Altbau: Hardt Waltherr Hämer, director of IBA's Altbau: renovating, improving, infilling and injecting new uses in Berlin's slums

• Neubau: Josef Paul Kleihues, director of IBA's Neubau: major buildings and projects sponsored by Neubau near the Wall

• IBA: Rowe Reflects: Colin Rowe identifies the difficulties IBA has encountered by concentrating on housing and on the urban block

• Kulturforum: Hans Hollein's winning scheme for the competition for urban spaces

OCTOBER 1984 (No. 1052) – Theme: Regional identity

• Three Australian houses: DARYL JACKSON; BRITT ANDRESEN & MICHAEL KENIGER: Regional expression in new Australian domestic architecture examined by Rory Spence

• Makovecz embrace: IMRE MAKOVECZ AND GROUP PECS: Makovecz's search for an identifiable Hungarian architecture

• Missionary Graves: MICHAEL GRAVES: John Pastier assesses Graves' attempt to come to terms with Southern California's Mission style

• Arctic response: Can there be regional Arctic architecture? Peter Davey asks

• Tropical Lafour: LUCIEN LAFOUR, RIKKERT WIJK: Aldo van Eyck looks at the regional contribution of two Surinam/Dutch architects

NOVEMBER 1984 (No. 1053) – Theme: Architecture: product design

• Gordon Russell Furniture Award results: The judges included Jim Stirling, Emilio Ambasz and Terence Conran

• Milan maestri: Achille Castiglioni, Mario Bellini, Alessandro Mendini and Ettore Sottsass explain why Italian architects work closely with industry

• Arcadian machine: BUILDING WORKSHOP: RENZO PIANO: Piano's new exhibition pavilion for IBM

• Charlotte Perriand looks back (and forward): Her career stretches back to furniture design with Le Corbusier and forward to leisure centres in China

• The architecture of the car: Have architects ever managed to beat motor engineers at their own game? Stephen Bayley investigates

DECEMBER 1984 (No. 1054) – Theme: Monument in the city

• Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart: STIRLING WILFORD & PARTNERS: One of the most important post-war statements about monumental building in a democratic society

• Visual Arts Center, Ohio State University, Columbus: EISENMAN/ROBERTSON: Peter Davey points out this approach may be more generally applicable than Stirling's

• Piano Nono: BUILDING WORKSHOP: RENZO PIANO: Putting new guts in a monument to make it relevant to today's culture

• Devillers triangle: CHRISTIAN DEVILLERS: Housing completes a monumental city-scape in St Etienne

• City as natural habitat versus city as cultural artefact: Peter Buchanan urges that we create cities which can generate a rich lifestyle