Exhibitions

Reviews and previews of the best architectural exhibitions

Review: Enzo Mari ‘design’s conscience’

A retrospective of Italian designer Enzo Mari at the Design Museum demonstrates his commitment to empowering the user

Cardiff’s first modernist building, Wales Empire Pool, 1958

Design was compared to London’s Royal Festival Hall

Fanciful Figures review: architectural drawing comes to life

‘Without the figures it’s just beige, beige, beige’

Smallbrook Ringway, ‘The one really hopeful building in Birmingham’

Ian Nairn’s praise for Smallbrook Ringway hasn’t saved it from demolition

Exhibition: V&A shows how tropical architects localised modernism

Locals made ‘progressive, optimistic’ style their own

The golden age of glass-roofed shopping arcades

The Galleria Umberto 1, Naples, 19th century

Paolozzi and friends: charming, idiosyncratic and subversive collaborator

Study of under-represented works highlights collaborations from fashion to homeware

CUTE is a delight for the senses but has a darker complexity

An exploration of cuteness in contemporary culture and how it can help navigate a route through the world

New House, Hampstead: contemporary 1939 take on traditional materials

A sad story lies behind Samuel & Harding’s late work

Favourite books: Sympathies and affinities with the creative process

Geoff Shearcroft recommends Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller

Space, Rhythm & Light illuminates Kim Lim at the Hepworth

Wakefield gallery revives modernist sculptor and exponent of ‘musicality and rhythm’

Playing house: MJ Long exhibition review

Portraits of a Practice at the Architectural Association

Review: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time Machine offers ‘a tonic for our distracted minds’

One man’s inner idea of reality expressed through his camera

Arthur Timothy: how a hobby turned an architect into an artist

Christmas present was a blank canvas in more ways than one

Interview with Nikola Olic: liberating architectural photography

Abstract but identifiable photographs balance reality and imagination

At home with Stefan Buzás

57 Ham Street, Ham Common, Richmond, 1953

There are enough buildings now – China’s changing architectural scene

Recent years have seen a shift in emphasis from quantity to quality says Li Hua, curator of Building Contemporary China

Review: Fabric of Democracy – Propaganda textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit

Exhibition shows the subtext in textiles

Review: Wide Angle View

What buildings are for: RIBA exhibition charts Manplan

Tony Ray-Jones shoots James Gowan’s ‘astonishingly Dudokian’ Trafalgar Road housing

Trafalgar Road housing estate, London, 1968

Review: New life grows on ruins of the past in Keita Miyazaki’s paper-on-metal sculptures

Excess of Desire exhibition features honeycomb paper structures adorning discarded car parts

Manplan’s grade II* ‘flamboyant folly’

Newcastle Civic Centre, 1956-67

Review: Venu, Asim Waqif creates giant nest-like bamboo installation at Hayward

The architecturally trained Indian artist Asim Waqif has created वेणु Venu, an anarchic bamboo shelter

Why AI can only take you so far on the journey to art

The dreary truth about artificial intelligence’s ‘creativity’

Review: Royal Academy of Art gets inside the minds of Herzog & de Meuron

It's all about the people and a constant questioning of the world

Art and industry united in design: SS Oriana

Aluminium superstructure was secret to passenger liner’s success

Cave_bureau raises questions of globalisation, climate change and architecture at Denmark exhibition

‘Reverse futurism’ and a return to indigenous knowledge star at Louisana gallery

Antonin Heythum’s Czech pavilion at Bruxelles World’s Fair, 1935

The designer’s first high-profile project eventually took him to the United States

National pavilions take on Venice Biennale's decolonisation and decarbonisation themes

Tired but uplifted, Chris Foges reports on a record showing

Venice Biennale resets the post-colonial balance

Lesley Lokko’s ‘uncomfortable and uplifting’ Laboratory of the Future

Review: Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Show

Curator Peter Barber celebrates the process of making

Back to lavish after austerity: post-war showcase of art and design

Time Life building, New Bond Street, London, 1953

A roomful of art puts design into unexpected focus

Eleanor Young gets a sudden perspicacious view of the blurry world of design

How modern tea rooms and leisure space updated the traditional drinkers’ pub

Prospect Inn, Minster, Kent, 1938, by Oliver Hill

Newcastle’s Farrell Centre: a new kind of public institution for architecture

An 'urban room' with a democratic mission

Review – Ai Weiwei: Making Sense at the Design Museum

Perceptions of the hand-made and the machine-made, the old and the new