Culture and the City

Architects, have become obsessed with just architecture, feverishly sifting through an ever expanding catalogue of styles. This emphasis on the new and superficial has the effect of negating architecture’s social potential and disengaging it from its historical role as the medium through which we experience a sense of collective cultural life.

The crucial architectural challenge, as presented in this exclusive feature from The Architectural Review, is to reconnect culture and its built form with the larger civic organism from which it emerged. Featuring in depth, fully illustrated reports and analysis of where architects are successfully rising to this challenge, including:

• Opera house, Oslo, Norway Snohetta
• Art museum, Madrid, Spain Herzog & De Meuron
• Art gallery, Fuglsang, Denmark Tony Fretton Architects
• Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Wright & Wright Architects
• Arts centre, Letterkenny, Ireland Macgabhann Architects
• Library, the Hague, the Netherlands Michael Wilford + Wilford Schupp Architekten.

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