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{{Short description|British architectural magazine}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title = The Architectural Review
| logo = The Architectural Review logo.svg
| image_file = Architectural Review Cover.jpg
| image_alt = 
| image_caption = Cover of the December 2018/January 2019 issue
| editor = Manon Mollard
| editor_title = Editor
| previous_editor = 
| staff_writer = 
| frequency = 10 per year
| category = [[Architecture]]
| company = [[Metropolis International]]
| publisher = 
| founded = 1896
| firstdate = November 1896 <!-- {{Start date|year|month|day}} -->
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| based = London
| language = [[English language|English]]
| website = {{URL|www.architectural-review.com}}
| issn = 0003-861X
}}

'''''The Architectural Review''''' is a monthly international [[Architecture|architectural]] magazine. It has been published in [[London]] since 1896.<ref name=suzy/> Its articles cover the [[built environment]] – which includes [[landscape]], [[building design]], [[interior design]] and [[urbanism]] – as well as theory of these subjects.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

==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,<ref name=higgott/><ref name=dnb/> with an editorial board of [[Reginald Blomfield]], [[Mervyn Macartney]] and [[Ernest Newton]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ush5WC9BM_gC&dq=Sir+Mervyn+Macartney&pg=PA132|title=Manchester: An Architectural History|author=Parkinson-Bailey. John.J|date=2000|page=132|publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9780719056062}}</ref> 

In 1927 his third son, [[Hubert de Cronin Hastings]], became joint editor (with [[Christian Barman]]) of both ''The'' ''Architectural Review'' and the ''[[Architects' Journal]]'', a weekly.<ref name="dnb" /> 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 (travel writer)|Robert Byron]], [[Cyril Connolly]], [[D. H. Lawrence]], [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], [[P. Morton Shand]], [[Osbert Sitwell|Osbert]] and [[Sacheverell Sitwell]], and [[Evelyn Waugh]].<ref name="suzy" /><ref name="dnb" /> [[John Betjeman]] was an assistant editor from 1930 to 1934.<ref name="suzy" /> The editorial board included Pevsner, [[Hugh Casson]], [[Osbert Lancaster]] and [[James Maude Richards]].<ref name="dnb" /> 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]].<ref name="dnb" /> The articles on European [[Modernist architecture]] by P. Morton Shand published from July 1934 were among the earliest in Britain on the subject.<ref name="higgott" /> By about 1935 the magazine had acquired a leading position in the discourse surrounding [[Modernism]].<ref name="suzy" />

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.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

In 1999, the magazine launched its inaugural [[AR Emerging Awards|AR Emerging Architecture Awards]], an annual international prize that "grants early recognition to young designers and celebrates the architectural stars of tomorrow."<ref>{{Cite web |title=AR Emerging |url=https://www.architectural-review.com/awards/ar-emerging |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=The Architectural Review |language=en}}</ref>

In January 2017, title owner [[Ascential]] announced its intention to sell 13 titles including ''The'' ''Architectural Review'';<ref name="Williams-6Jan2017">{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Christopher|title=Ascential puts Drapers and Nursing Times up for sale in break with trade publishing|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/05/ascential-puts-drapers-nursing-times-sale-break-trade-publishing/|access-date=6 January 2017|work=Telegraph|date=5 January 2017}}</ref> the 13 "heritage titles" were to be "hived off into a separate business while buyers are sought."<ref name="Sweney-5Jan2017">{{cite news|last1=Sweney|first1=Mark|title=Ascential to sell Drapers and Nursing Times as it ditches 'heritage' brands|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/05/ascential-drapers-nursing-times-emap-retail-week|access-date=6 January 2017|work=The Guardian|date=5 January 2017}}</ref> It was one of 13 titles acquired from Ascential by [[Metropolis International]] in a £23.5m cash deal, announced on 1 June 2017.<ref name="TCI-1Jun2017">{{cite news|title=New owner rescues construction mags|url=http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/new-owner-rescues-construction-magazines|access-date=1 June 2017|work=The Construction Index|date=1 June 2017}}</ref>

''The Architectural Review'' remains in print, published ten times per year, while its online version is updated daily.

==Notable people==
*[[Henry Wilson (architect and designer)|Henry Wilson]] – first editor 1896–1901
*[[John Betjeman]] – assistant editor, 1930 to 1934<ref name=suzy/>
*[[James Maude Richards]] – co-editor or editor, 1935 to 1971, excluding the war years<ref name=higgott/>
*[[Nikolaus Pevsner]] – acting editor 1943 to 1945 and member of editorial board 1945 to 1970
*[[Rayner Banham]] – literary editor, in 1952
*[[Dariush Borbor]] (architect and urban planner) – former correspondent and contributor 1960s to 1980s
*Peter Davey – editor 1980 to 2005
*[[László Moholy-Nagy]] – photographer
*[[Gordon Cullen]] – art editor
*[[Robert Melville (art critic)|Robert Melville]] – art critic
*[[Peter Blundell Jones]] – contributor
*[[Stephen Gardiner (architect)|Stephen Gardiner]] – contributor
*[[Douglass Haskell]] – contributor
*[[Ian Nairn]] – contributor
*[[Catherine Slessor]], managing editor 1992–2009, editor 2010–2015 
*Christine Murray, editor, 2015–2018<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-03-31|title=Architects' Journal and Architectural Review appoint new editors|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/31/new-editors-architectural-review-architects-journal-christine-murray-rory-olcayto/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Dezeen|language=en}}</ref>
*Manon Mollard, editor

==References==
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<ref name=dnb>D.A.C.A. Boyne (2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61581 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}}</ref>

<ref name=higgott>Andrew Higgott (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=G8F9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 ''Mediating modernism architectural cultures in Britain'']. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415401784}}. {{nobreak|p. 55.}}</ref>

<ref name=suzy>Suzy Harries (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=A8Q6ks2TME0C&pg=SA2-PA27 ''Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life'']. London: Chatto & Windus. {{ISBN|9780701168391}}. {{nobreak|p. 227–230}}</ref>

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