Exhibitions

Reviews and previews of the best architectural exhibitions

Gardens regained: exhibition unearths past places of pleasure

Lost Gardens of London reveals spaces where flora and fauna once flourished

But is it Art?

What should we be enjoying at immersive art shows?

Arboreal architecture

Hidcote Manor Stilt Garden, by Martin Charles

Rena Papaspyrou and the art of deconstruction

Athenian artist's work with the elements and materials of the city at the Hellenic Centre

How architects rise to the challenges of the trickiest sites

An RIBA exhibition celebrates architects’ ability to unleash their creativity when faced with a challenging site

How to green the Gulf

Sustainable design for rising temperatures and populations

Angles of Attack: Restoring St Anne’s, Limehouse

Intense photographs by Hélène Binet of Hawksmoor churches speed restoration

Modernism adopts gothic expression

Gottfried Böhm marries concrete and glass at Church of St Albert, Saarbrucken

Anne Wynne: Postcard from Venice

A brush with the post-human, robotic world of Pierre Huyghe’s Liminal exhibition

Review: CAN tells Greenwich history through chimneys at NOW Gallery

Up in Smoke reveals the enduring appeal of the chimney

Review: Sam Jacob gives Barbie a colourful 65th birthday at the Design Museum

Strong design references underpin a journey through the Barbie-verse

Photograph: Shrubs Wood, quintessential modern house of 1930s Britain

An elegant stair encapsulates quintessential 1930s style at Shrubs Wood

Saving the world by taking inspiration from it

The many forms of nature-based design are championed in an exhibition at Roca London Gallery

Dover’s modernist masterpiece

Dover Stage Hotel, 1957, Louis Erdi

Galactic empires still relate to earthly architecture

Dune offers convincing places and realistic resonances, finds Will Wiles

Artistic interpretation: artists help RIBA shake off imperialist vestiges

Artworks tackle themes of race, gender and colonialism

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

Lasdun’s Lyttelton Theatre: Stalking the boards

Royal National Theatre, South Bank, London, 1976

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