Only regulated professionals should be allowed to design buildings, writes Eleanor Jolliffe. More about "Absolute freedom over who designs buildings only encourages the cowboy practitioner"
With the Pritzker Architecture Prize in potential jeopardy over its patron's links to Jeffrey Epstein, Edwin Heathcote reflects on the award's relevance in 2026. More about "Maybe the Pritzker delay says exactly what we need right now"
Opposition to Donald Trump's White House expansion plans has focused on the building itself but the implications for the grounds are just as egregious, writes Charles A Birnbaum. More about "The proposed White House ballroom is wholly incompatible with the site"
Designers should use AI's foibles as a chance to move away from the ruthlessly rational approach that has come to dominate software, writes Nick Foster. More about "Software designers must abandon their roles as the custodians of libraries, logic and grids"
The starchitect era is coming to an end but, like it or not, architecture still needs powerful individuals, writes Owen Hopkins. More about "In the rush to draw a line under the age of the starchitect, we're at risk of losing more than we think"
"Calm technology" is all the rage but big tech companies are leveraging the concept to distract from the ways their business models cause us harm, writes Rima Sabina Aouf. More about "Big Tech is using design philosophy as a smokescreen"
Architecture education is often criticised but it remains good at its most important function of teaching design, writes Charles Holland. More about "It is easy to find fault in architecture education"
India is building at an unprecedented scale but its highly fragmented construction industry is struggling to cope, writes Amit Khanna. More about "For those engaged in the production of India's buildings, it's akin to seeing the warming water boiling the frogs"
Greater effort must be made to retain decommissioned airport terminal buildings, writes Anthony Paletta. More about "Enormous structures tend to be built to last. Airport terminals are usually the reverse"
Wellness-related design is everywhere at the moment but underneath its tasteful minimalist aesthetic lie some uncomfortable truths, writes Priya Khanchandani. More about "I don't know about you, but I feel bombarded by so-called 'wellness' design"
It's 2026 – the year imagined in Fritz Lang's sci-fi epic Metropolis almost a century ago. Despite its laboured plot the film got a lot right about the future city, writes Catherine Slessor. More about "Metropolis's prophetic vision of chaotic skylines and unequal social conditions still resonates"
The late Frank Gehry was the ultimate starchitect, but even he knew that designing buildings takes teamwork, writes Matthew Bovingdon-Downe. More about "As our celebrated architects sign off, we should resist the urge to replace them"
Almost all cities are based around a water source, but London does not talk enough about the importance of public access to the River Thames, writes Jessica Furseth. More about "We talk a lot about the value of green space, but our silty brown 'blue space' often remains an afterthought"
Automotive brands are seeking to emphasise their design credentials, providing a clue about where car design is heading, writes Liv Taylor. More about "Car design is increasingly about mood, not mechanics"
The US Government's exclusion of architecture from its list of "professional" degrees prompts an overdue discussion about the value of licensing, write Andrea Dietz and Peggy Deamer. More about "News about architecture no longer being a 'professional degree' is devastating, and also welcome"
Open-plan living rooms and swelling televisions pose an interior-design headache but dens and snugs may be the answer, writes Claire Keane. More about "What to do with the TV is among the most challenging design problems in today's American home"
In order to save architecture the prevailing approach to architecture education must be allowed to die, writes Harriet Harriss as part of our Performance Review series. More about Five ways that architecture education needs to change
It's time to recognise that design's status as a force for social change was only ever a blip and instead embrace its role as applied art, writes John Jervis as part of our Performance Review series. More about "Industrial design should have dropped its messianic claims long ago"
Architects must get over their aversion to the business side of practice, writes Gareth Stapleton as part of our Performance Review series. More about "Too many architects wear their ignorance of finance as if it were a mark of purity"
Next our Performance Review series turns the spotlight on design. Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser sets out 10 ways that the industry is dysfunctional. More about Everything that's going wrong with design