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...Situated somewhere between Picasso’s “Guernica”, the anguished subjects of Wifredo Lam and Francis Bacon and the heroic labourers of the Mexican muralists, his striking oeuvre depicts Latin America’s history...
...There is Diébédo Francis Kéré’s loving tribute to handwritten shop signs in his native Burkina Faso, a calming sound installation by South African Sumayya Vally and Libyan Moad Musbahi, and photographer...
...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....
...The choice of Francis Kéré is an illustration of how far the prize has moved from its beginnings: its first recipient was Philip Johnson, a one-time fascist and a dedicated corporate architect who once said...
...“Dialogue doesn’t make sense with the dictatorship because it’s holding participants from the first dialogue in prison,” said Father Edwin Román, a Nicaraguan priest exiled in Miami....
...This series of Tech Tonic is produced by Persis Love, with thanks to Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Sound Design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco....
...When Francis O’Reilly failed to sell an 8ft-wide plot of land to a neighbour for a profit, he built it into an attenuated, clapboarded house....
...British love affair with the equestrian and canine is ingrained in its art history: see George Stubbs’ regal, romantic horses, Van Dyck’s painting of King Charles II as a child with his eponymous spaniel and Edwin...
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...Edwin Chow, acting president of the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students, said when two students personally had urged the pontiff to back the protest movement during a brief meeting at a Rome youth...
...The sarcophagi at Dulwich Picture Gallery belong to the founders, the London art dealers Sir Francis Bourgeois (1753 -1811) and Noel Desenfans (1744 — 1807), and Lady Bourgeois....
...“People see that Francis Kéré comes from a village and he’s using what we have — and he wins an award for it. That is important....
...HOK was founded in St Louis but its UK arm was recently responsible for the Francis Crick Institute in King's Cross, together with PLP Architects....
...Why The main house, with its outdoor pool and stone pavilion, was built in 1986 by architect Quinlan Terry and his son Francis....
...FT visual arts critic Jackie Wullschlager on how Tate Modern transformed the way we see art FT architecture critic Edwin Heathcote reviews Switch House Switch House opens June 17, tate.org.uk...
...Another young architect making waves back home is Diébédo Francis Kéré. Kéré studied in Berlin and stayed there but it is his wonderful works back in his native Burkina Faso that have made waves....
...“It’s been humbling for most folks,” says Edwin Tai, a distressed debt portfolio manager at Newfleet Asset Management....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic Photograph: Kilian O’Sullivan...
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
...Edwin Crossley-Mercer’s Pollux is much nearer the mark but prone to grab at opportunities to boom, even mid-phrase. Jean Teitgen’s robust Jupiter appears to think he is auditioning for Boris Godunov....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Reviewing the book in the FT, Francis Fukuyama called it “truly masterful”....
...Diébédo Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso has built an archway of cheap honeycomb plastic panels (which visually work with Souto de Moura’s own arches)....
...There is a solitary Lucian Freud still life; no Francis Bacon; the only abstraction a well-mannered Ben Nicholson....
...… Architecture & Design by Edwin Heathcote Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, edited by Forensic Architecture, Sternberg Press, RRP£23/$28 This dense, provocative book proposes architecture...
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