Opinion
“Reinventing higher education requires architecture to reinvent itself too”
“We remove places where young people can gather in small groups, then panic when they gather in large ones”
“I find it icky to glibly invoke brain chemistry in the marketing of style”
“In Canada, design still receives remarkably little recognition”
“If no one ever sits there, is a balcony still a balcony?”
“Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind”
“There’s no point hoping that this RIBA presidential election can make much difference”
“As so often seems to happen, Koolhaas got there first”
“The Obama Presidential Center unquestionably breaks free of tired precedent”
“An architectural style has emerged that I’m calling ‘gentleism'”
“Times have changed and the power of money has contaminated culture”
“The relationship between architecture and capitalism on which parametricism was premised ceased to exist long ago”
“Too often, neurodiverse design is a marketing ploy”
“Is touching really asking too much?”
“Plants on a building doesn’t make it sustainable, any more than a basil leaf on a steak makes it vegan”
“The Mackintosh Building should be rebuilt without the Glasgow School of Art”
“Stadiums are the most significant expression of monumentality in our time”
“The World Cup is a unique opportunity to make different public transit approaches visible”
“IKEA has challenged the rest of the design world”
“Design weeks need to start framing repair as aspirational”
“Design fairs need to adopt an AI policy, and need to do it now”
“Parametricism is a technophile triumph of fetishised process over outcome”
“Zumthor’s LACMA building captures the strangeness of our times”
