{"id":673732,"date":"2026-11-03T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673732\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:54:16","slug":"130-years-of-the-architectural-review-november-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673732\/","title":{"rendered":"130 years of The Architectural Review- November 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November 1896, the first films were being screened, wireless telegraphy had just been patented, and the first issue of The Architectural Review was published in London and released into the world.<\/p>\n

The magazine has since survived world wars, political earthquakes and technological revolutions \u2013 perhaps none\u202fas seismic as the current deluge of so-called artificial intelligence. \u2018The threat of\u202fAI is that it can bypass real buildings and real people,\u2019 Stephen Parnell writes.<\/p>\n

As generative AI is reshaping newsrooms, eroding meaning and blurring the lines of reality and human interactions, this anniversary highlights the increasing importance and urgency for human thinking, writing and\u202fmaking. In this special issue, architects, artists, critics and co-conspirators join the AR to contemplate its next 130 years. Former editor Catherine Slessor contrives the AR\u2019s astrological birth chart , Nomos have used their collection of magazines to make a series of cyanotypes and Productora\u2019s Carlos Bedoya asks that the AR remains \u2018a\u202fform of resistance and a space of conscience\u2019. As Phyllis Lambert points out, it will require \u2018energy, rigour, curiosity, courage, imagination, fun and freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n

1536: 130 years of The Architectural Review
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cover (above)
This issue\u2019s cover was a collaboration with the Madrid\u2011based illustrator Isabel Albertos. The words \u2018AR not AI\u2019 emerge from an urban landscape inspired by Giambattista Nolli\u2019s 1748 plans of Rome. The\u202ffinal cover is the result of nearly two months of dialogue and\u202ftesting ideas. Credit:\u202fIsabel Albertos for The\u202fArchitectural Review<\/p>\n

folio (lead image)
On the occasion of the AR\u2019s 130th birthday, editors have received birthday cards and messages from all over the world, including a crunchy collaged birthday cake from architects Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis<\/p>\n

keynote
Slop machine
Stephen Parnell<\/p>\n

building
See what is left
Philipp Klak<\/p>\n

Birthday wishes<\/p>\n

Catherine Slessor<\/p>\n

Laslo Antal<\/p>\n

Omar Degan<\/p>\n

Mark Minkjan<\/p>\n

Beth Rodway<\/p>\n

Sol P\u00e9rez Mart\u00ednez<\/p>\n

Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis<\/p>\n

Tom\u00e0 Berlanda<\/p>\n

Boonserm Premthada<\/p>\n

Phineas Harper<\/p>\n

Oliver L\u00fctjens and Thomas Padmanabhan<\/p>\n

Lola Olufemi<\/p>\n

Lesley Lokko and Fred Swart<\/p>\n

Tina Gregori\u010d<\/p>\n

Yeyei G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n

Sam Jacob<\/p>\n

Suad Amiry<\/p>\n

George Douglas<\/p>\n

Glenn Murcutt<\/p>\n

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu<\/p>\n

Carlos Bedoya<\/p>\n

Philip Christou<\/p>\n

S\u00f8ren Pihlmann<\/p>\n

Edwin Heathcote<\/p>\n

Bernard Tschumi<\/p>\n

Nomos<\/p>\n

Beatriz Colomina<\/p>\n

Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson<\/p>\n

Lars M\u00fcller<\/p>\n

Norman Foster<\/p>\n

Oliver Wainwright<\/p>\n

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman<\/p>\n

Madelon Vriesendorp<\/p>\n

Kate Wagner<\/p>\n

Aristea Charoniti<\/p>\n

Hans Ulrich Obrist<\/p>\n

Phyllis Lambert<\/p>\n

Takero Shimazaki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In November 1896, the first films were being screened, wireless telegraphy had just been patented, and the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-673732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}