Following the news that Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin will close this year, first-year student Alex Martinec reflects on how it marks not just the end of a physical institution, but the architect's way of thinking. More about "Is it a greater offense to destroy all of the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, or the ideas he established?"
The emotional and economic impacts of cities are closely connected, but this is lost in a proliferation of meaningless phrases like "healthy placemaking" and "human-centric design", says Reinier de Graaf. More about "Too much is at stake to leave architecture to architects"
Interior design will evolve, innovate, adapt and improve in 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. Her trend report includes provocative collaborations, Ukrainian design and a rejection of digital technology. More about Sexy eco, monochrome and plus-size furniture: interior design trends for 2020
As the 2020s begins, Aaron Betsky predicts that architects in the new decade will focus on reuse, flexible spaces and earthy materials. More about The 2020s "will see the return of the real" argues Aaron Betsky
High-tech architecture aligned with the revival of Victorian values in the 1980s, but did not end up producing the factories of a new period of British creativity, says Owen Hatherley. More about "High-tech now looks very much like another post-imperial delusion"
Holly Brockwell is unimpressed by the sexist advertising for the gold folding phone launched by Pablo Escobar's brother, but is not surprised. More about "Sexist advertising for the Escobar phone is everything tech wishes it could still get away with"
Pantone played it safe and still missed the mark by picking Classic Blue as its colour of the year for 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. More about "In choosing blue, Pantone has missed the mark once more"
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"