Opinion
“Cybertruck represents a highly conservative continuation of the status quo”
“We have to do better than ugliness and incoherence. We can be woke and good designers as well”
Indian designers dismiss “design-school propaganda” as they decolonise their work
“The traditional model of philanthropic support is an ongoing act of self-harm”
“Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless”
“The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists”
“In the age of big data, everything is quantifiable, even happiness”
“Could all things ‘green’ be the glue that sticks us back together?”
“The best suburban malls were meccas with superb qualities”
“Should architects design provocatively ugly architecture that does not conform to Instagram’s aesthetic conventions?”
“What bothers many people is the sense of an alien culture”
“It is emphatically not the job of architecture education to mimic practice”
“The creative industries are misreading the public”
“High-tech is ever edging away from its ecological and humanistic roots”
“Charles Jencks’ provocation and ever-enquiring spirit has never been more important”
“To end plastic pollution, we first need to eliminate language pollution”
“Goldsmith Street offers a roadmap for precisely the type of housing the UK needs”
“Facial recognition is a fundamental threat to society”
“Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”
“What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?”
“The rapid deterioration of Earth’s biodiversity could be reversed equally quickly if we find new ways to design our cities”
“The basic foolishness is compounded by a screamingly patronising name – Whey Aye”
“What could Foster bring to social housing today?”
