Architectural Review

The Architectural Review
Editor Christine Murray
Categories Architecture
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 13,352
First issue 1896
Company Emap Limited
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website www.architectural-review.com
ISSN 0003-861X

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine. It has been published in London since 1896.[1] Its articles cover the built environment – which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism – as well as theory of these subjects.

History

The Architectural Review was founded as a monthly magazine, the Architectural Review for the Artist and Craftsman, in 1896 by Percy Hastings, owner of the Architectural Press.[2][3] In 1927 his third son, Hubert de Cronin Hastings, became joint editor (with Christian Berman) of both the Architectural Review and the Architects' Journal, a weekly.[3] Together they made substantial changes to the aims and style of the review, which became a general arts magazine with an architectural emphasis. Contributors from other artistic fields were brought in, among them Hilaire Belloc, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Nash, Nikolaus Pevsner, P. Morton Shand, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh.[1][3] John Betjeman was an assistant editor from 1930 to 1934.[1] The editorial board included Pevsner, Hugh Casson, Osbert Lancaster and James Maude Richards.[3] The design of the review was innovative, with bold use of layout, typefaces and photographs; graphic elements were commissioned from Eric Gill and Edward Bawden.[3] The articles on European Modernist architecture by P. Morton Shand published from July 1934 were among the earliest in Britain on the subject.[2] By about 1935 the magazine had acquired a leading position in the discourse surrounding Modernism.[1]

The journal was influential after the Second World War in raising awareness of "townscape" (urban design), partly through regular articles by assistant editor Gordon Cullen, author of several books on the subject.

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Suzy Harries (2011). Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701168391. p. 227–230
  2. 1 2 3 Andrew Higgott (2007). Mediating modernism architectural cultures in Britain. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415401784. p. 55.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 D.A.C.A. Boyne (2004). Hastings, Hubert de Cronin (1902–1986). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61581 (subscription required)
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