Author Archives: Anna Kats

Svetlana Kana Radević (1937-2000)

By Anna Kats 13 March 2020 Reputations

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Radević’s purposeful oeuvre deserves careful study if we are to elucidate our understanding of the first female Montenegrin architect

A Taste for Brutalism: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades

3 March 2014 By Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Jonathan Meades’ defiant defence of Brutalism in his recent BBC4 series is…

Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)

28 February 2018 By Owen Hatherley

Zaha Hadid was an explosion of fearless, impolite, aggressive talent onto a profession terrified…

Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986)

21 February 2019 By Dale Allen Gyure

The architect of Pruitt-Igoe and the World Trade Center survived a life…

Minnette de Silva (1918-1998)

7 August 2019 By Shiromi Pinto

Expressive, unapologetic, and ahead of her time in ecological and participative design,…

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AR March 2020 on Masculinities + W Awards

24 February 2020 By AR Editors

Yasmeen Lari | Beatriz Colomina | HawkinsBrown | Collective Architecture | Mole Architects…

Folio: Willi Baumeister

11 March 2020 By AR Editors

A few lines in ink subvert the neoclassical nude form into Baumeister’s…

Monuments to men: ego and stature solidified in stone

12 March 2020 By Darran Anderson

Immense statues commemorating the power and hubris of tyrants cultivate the idea that…

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Male delivery: the domain of the man midwife

26 March 2020 By Emma Cheatle

The early man midwife was able to escape the barber surgeon shop…

Folio: Robert Fludd’s black square

1 April 2020 By AR Editors

Prefiguring Malevich’s Black Square by 300 years, Fludd’s drawing extends at the…

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