Sam Jacob
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio, professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago, director of Night School at the Architectural Association, and the editor of Strange Harvest. Previously, he was a director of internationally acclaimed architecture practice FAT.
Stories by Sam Jacob
“The beautiful buildings commission is just a front for the continuing attack on progressive ideas”
“Will Alsop had the balls to think differently”
“We could imagine nationhood as a design project”
“Vote Leave is a vote for a theme park instead of a country”
“What would you do with a piece of Thatcher memorabilia?”
“Chicago boldly imagines its own definition of what a biennial might be”
“Postmodernism’s real qualities are mean and difficult, yet also psychedelically positive”
“Kink and fetish has much to teach mainstream design culture”
“Experience a version of history without the homework”
“Marketing, architecture and development can be an incredibly powerful combination”
“Alongside every dream home is its nightmare twin”
“These flip flops are politics disguised as leisurewear”
“MIPIM is one big performance with the purpose of speaking cities into existence”
“The design of a passport might create new kinds of identity and citizenship”
“The copy in contemporary culture is both despised and feared”
“Toys have become small plastic tablets of moral code that we hand down to the next generation”
“Eames has become a vaguely suggestive word applied to alchemise junk shop remnants”
“The destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra is an assault on human culture”
“The Garden Bridge is a magic bullet for a certain idea of the contemporary British city”
“Cities that score well barely qualify as cities”
“We’ve got 99 problems but architecture ain’t one”
“National Parks are synthesised products of urbanisation”
