AR July/August 2018 on Furniture + AR House

Since objects and interiors are often sidelined from architectural discourse, this issue explores shifts in design scales to unpick the relationship between architecture and furniture. Edwin Heathcote's keynote discusses today's 'furniturisation' of architecture: from summer pavilions to mobile pop-ups, he argues that architecture is becoming a series of extremely elaborate furniture. Throughout the issue, we explore the work of designers who blur the line between architecture and furniture, and feature the results of this year's AR House awards

ISSUE 1453
July/August 2018

The Architectural Review

£15.99

Buy now

Furniture

Pezo von ellrichshausen cien house chile

Editorial: House – the building type that continues to inspire the architectural imagination

Paul Finch

The house, at its root, is about shelter with varying degrees of comfort, amenity and scale – a carefully balanced combination which makes for experimental gr...

Antonello da messina st jerome in his study national gallery london 3x2

The furniturisation of architecture: from St Jerome in his study to built-in cupboards and summer pavilions

Edwin Heathcote

Architecture is increasingly disconnected from context, and its traditional boundaries blurred in favour of the temporary and the mobile

Retrospective: Olson Kundig

Manon Mollard

Lu Wenyu: the emphasis on craft and precision

Austin Williams

Book of the month: Between Chairs at Ulm and NID

Ashoke Chatterjee

Outrage: Architects' expensive trophy chairs are nothing new

Catherine Slessor

Conventional wisdom: report AIA 2018 in New York

Jeremy Melvin

Revisit: Lewerentz’s St Peter’s

Eleanor Beaumont

Soft cell: the minimum dwelling

Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara

Peek inside the wardrobe: a new history

Tom Wilkinson

Floor polish: floor as furniture in Japan

Don O’Keefe

Balancing act: Junya Ishigami’s shifts in scale

Manon Mollard

Working models: changing work patterns embrace the home office

Jeremy Melvin

The continuous interior: an endless domestic landscape

Anna Puijganer

A song in stone: 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, UK, by Amin Taha + Groupwork

Douglas Murphy

Charlotte perriand reputations emily forgo index

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)

Catherine Slessor

O’Brien Van der Steen Hunt: ‘Furniture and the interior are the natural extension of an architectural project’

Eleanor Beaumont

Long chair cartoon marcel breuer colouring book

Folio: Marcel Breuer's Long Chair

AR Editors

AR House Winner

Habitat orphan girls iran zav architects ar house

Veiled in Secrecy: The Habitat for Orphan Girls by ZAV Architects, Iran

Mehr Shafiei

AR House winner 2018: set in the foothills of Iran’s Zagros Mountains, this girls’ orphanage gives vulnerable children a safe and culturally sensiti...

Highly Commended

Vo trong nghia architects binh house ho chi minh city ar house key (8)

Planes and plants: Vo Trong Nghia Architects’ Binh House in Ho Chi Minh City

Josh Comaroff

AR House Highly Commended: as a new addition to the House for Trees series, this is the Vietnamese architects’ latest radical integration of greenery into architecture

House ar nobeoka schemata architects japan takumi ota 9

Building in potential: house in Nobeoka, Japan by Schemata Architects

Jan Vranovský

AR House 2018 Highly Commended: the architects have breathed new life into three interconnected buildings while maintaining the essence of the old structure