"The world's most sustainable office building isn't enough to save the planet"
Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. More about "The world's most sustainable office building isn't enough to save the planet"
"What if houses were designed like bikes?"
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the factory-built Futuro House, it's time for a radical rethinking of architectural manufacturing, says Phineas Harper. More about "What if houses were designed like bikes?"
"Forensic Architecture winning the Turner Prize would risk turning sensitive investigative work into insensitive entertainment"
Forensic Architecture's Turner Prize shortlisting is a warning for architects to be vigilant of the arts world co-opting their work as grisly entertainment, argues Phineas Harper. More about "Forensic Architecture winning the Turner Prize would risk turning sensitive investigative work into insensitive entertainment"
"Architecture schools are the punching bags of the industry"
It's time to stop blaming architecture schools for systemic problems like poor diversity and the mental health crisis, says Phineas Harper. More about "Architecture schools are the punching bags of the industry"
"Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we're experts"
A movement is growing against cultural appropriation, but could it spell the end for historical references in architecture? asks Phineas Harper. More about "Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we're experts"
"Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform"
A disdain for trade unions is preventing architects from challenging the industry's low standards of workers' rights, argues Phineas Harper. More about "Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform"
"The architectural world seems to be responding to Charlottesville with deafening silence"
When neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, architects need to step up and confront the issues surrounding colonial monuments, argues Phineas Harper. More about "The architectural world seems to be responding to Charlottesville with deafening silence"
"Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
Architects shouldn't be stifled by their disdain for copying successful ideas, from Assemble's pop-up cinema to Shigeru Ban's cardboard structures, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
"To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
If today's architects abandoned their modern vocabulary in favour of populist traditional or classical styles, they could achieve more progressive social goals, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
"Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
We need to stop concentrating our energies on hazard-proofing playgrounds, and worry instead about how our buildings and environments could be better suited to children, says Phineas Harper in this Opinion column. More about "Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
"Poverty should never be an Instagram filter"
Iwan Baan's arresting images of the Kenyan school built by architect duo Selgascano are a typical example of the slum porn that has infiltrated western media, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Poverty should never be an Instagram filter"
"It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher"
Patrik Schumacher's vision for a deregulated and privatised city is nothing more than a rehash of failed establishment ideas, and we shouldn't pay any attention, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher"
"Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
Death urgently needs a redesign, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
"The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"
The UK's housing crisis is no accident, but has been carefully orchestrated to become a catch-all excuse for self-serving projects, argues Phineas Harper in his first Opinion column for Dezeen. More about "The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"