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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
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...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
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...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s design and architecture critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...sal.org.uk/kelmscott-manor/ Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s design and architecture critic Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...Shaping Space: Architectural Models Revealed, a small and lovely show at London’s Building Centre (in conjunction with the V&A) illustrates the range of media and approaches, and intimates that this might...
...Yet models such as the Fender Stratocaster or Gibson’s Flying V have become part of the visual language of contemporary culture, bizarrely enduring designs that seem somehow not to have dated....
...a street where curry houses mingle with vintage stores and graffitied bars, is now at the centre of Three British Mosques, an exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in collaboration with the V&...
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...Not to be overlooked is the Impressionist art collection of the Texas oilman and philanthropist Edwin Cox, who died a year ago this week and was a “thorough and disciplined collector”, says Adrien Meyer...
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...The laser-cut plywood stools are neat too, their V-shaped legs an echo of the stitching in the bellows, a detail picked up again in the delicately pierced patterns of the window shutters....
...Cars: Accelerating the Modern World Edited by Brendan Cormier and Elizabeth Bisley, Abrams, V&A, RRP£30/$45 The show at the V&A might have shut early, a victim of the lockdown, but the most fascinating...
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