Continuing our high-tech architecture series, Catherine Slessor looks at how the women in Team 4 helped shape the narrative of the movement. More about "High-tech was a supreme toys-for-the-boys moment"
The leading parties' manifestos contain bold pledges that will change Britain's cities for generations, says Phineas Harper. He takes a look at the architecture and housing policies ahead of the UK's general election. More about "Whoever wins the general election will bring radical change for better, or worse"
Following protests about working conditions at well-known museums – like the Marciano Art Foundation and MoMA – Mimi Zeiger says it's time to address architecture's relationship to unfair labour practices. More about "We must recognise the workers who make museum-going a smooth architectural experience"
Tesla's electric Cybertruck is billed as a radical redefinition of the car, but in fact draws on old-fashioned ideas of escape, argues Elizabeth Bisley, co-curator of the V&A museum's new exhibition about car design. More about "Cybertruck represents a highly conservative continuation of the status quo"
The current way architecture is critiqued and presented at biennials and exhibitions is ugly, but it doesn't need to be, argues Aaron Betsky. More about "We have to do better than ugliness and incoherence. We can be woke and good designers as well"
By voting for Brexit, the British people have shown a greater appetite for risk than the creative sector, which needs to take the public more seriously or risk becoming irrelevant, says Martyn Perks of the Dissenters Design Network. More about "The creative industries are misreading the public"
High-tech architecture has strayed far from its environmentally conscientious beginnings, but could rise again if it returns to them, writes Phineas Harper. More about "High-tech is ever edging away from its ecological and humanistic roots"
Designers in India are rejecting the western canon and instead searching for home-grown approaches to their discipline. More about Indian designers dismiss "design-school propaganda" as they decolonise their work
In the wake of recent controversies surrounding the funding of major institutions – dubbed "toxic philanthropy" – we must rethink the system for supporting culture, says Forensic Architecture researcher Robert Trafford. More about "The traditional model of philanthropic support is an ongoing act of self-harm"
Charles Jencks, the critic who helped bring postmodernism into existence, died this week. With populism on the rise, the pluralism of the movement is needed now more than ever, argues Owen Hopkins. More about "Charles Jencks' provocation and ever-enquiring spirit has never been more important"
Designers' efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products are being hampered by confusion over terminology and rampant greenwashing, writes Marcus Fairs. More about "To end plastic pollution, we first need to eliminate language pollution"
Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause, argues Aaron Betsky. More about "Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless"
As Poland goes to the polls on Sunday, the churches that were built in the 1970s and 1980s as a sanctuary against an oppressive state are now instruments in a political debate, writes Owen Hatherley. More about "The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists"
At a time when everything in the UK looks bleak, an environmentally conscious social housing scheme winning the Stirling Prize is a rare moment of hope, writes Piers Taylor. More about "Goldsmith Street offers a roadmap for precisely the type of housing the UK needs"
The use of facial recognition in Hong Kong and London's King's Cross demonstrates the need to control access to the technology in the same way other dangerous items are regulated, says Owen Hopkins. More about "Facial recognition is a fundamental threat to society"
Measuring people's happiness with architecture is a step towards trying to control them, says Reinier de Graaf.
More about "In the age of big data, everything is quantifiable, even happiness"
Dulux chose Tranquil Dawn as its colour of the year for 2020, but something bolder would have better represented the year ahead, says Michelle Ogundehin. More about "Could all things 'green' be the glue that sticks us back together?"
The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. More about "Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished"
The third Chicago Architecture Biennial draws attention to the biggest issues facing today's society, but is short on architects wrangling with them, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?"
As America's suburban shopping malls are becoming ghost towns, Aaron Betsky argues that their complex architecture character means that they deserve more serious consideration. More about "The best suburban malls were meccas with superb qualities"