The Architectural Review (AR) celebrates its 120th birthday with a lavish anniversary edition of The Architectural Review. The AR readers can get a copy of this illuminating book by subscribing the Architectural Review. 

This special collector's edition will take you on an exciting journey through 120 years of buildings and architectural inspiration that you’ll refer back to for years to come. The book reproduces rare content on a mix of special papers, takes a look back at ground-breaking content, from Le Corbusier to Manplan and more, and features original writing by leading architects and thinkers, including:

Norman Foster on how evolving technology has changed both practice and buildings, Peter Cook on how the architecture of museums, shopping malls and the seaside have linked design to leisure, Beatriz Colomina on the changing themes of architectural education, Patrik Schumacher on how architectural styles relate to the political system they're in, Yvonne Farrell on the art and craft of architecture, Gillian Darley on the role of architects in building housing, Jonathan Glancey on the AR's historic campaigns and how they changed place making forever and Owen Hatherley on the struggle of how to add new buildings to old cities.

The AR features Kali, mother of creation and destruction, on the cover of the AR’s 120th anniversary edition. Dissatisfied with the muse of architecture portrayed on the cover of the first issue of The Architectural Review – a Pre-Raphaelite mother-of-all-arts clutching a tiny Arts and Crafts castle in her hands – ''We desired a new muse for the future of the AR. Our first cover was, after all, a retake of the Classical muse, typically painted slaving over drawings and clutching a tiny Parthenon,'' says the AR team.

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