Architects designing for America's future suburbs should look back to the country's unsung modernists, who created site-appropriate and liveable timber homes across the USA, says Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More about "We have much to learn from the 'timber constructivists'"
Six weeks on from the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, architects, construction firms or the council could be found liable under the "duty to warn" principle, says construction lawyer Jason Kallis. More about "Designers, contractors or the local authority could all be blamed for breaching a duty to warn"
A satirical design proposal to restructure the UK like a 1970s holiday camp, based on the collective nostalgia that fuelled the Brexit vote, perfectly summarises the tone of national debate in recent years, says Owen Hatherley. More about "You could imagine Theresa May looking with profound sympathy at Britlins"
The Met's Comme des Garçons exhibition demonstrates how forward-thinking designers like Rei Kawakubo are using new digital crafts to manipulate both the body and architectural space, says Aaron Betsky in his latest Opinion column. More about "Rei Kawakubo is an architect of clothes"
Architects shouldn't be stifled by their disdain for copying successful ideas, from Assemble's pop-up cinema to Shigeru Ban's cardboard structures, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
The advent of 3D-modelling software may not spell the end for architectural drawing after all, says Owen Hopkins. More about "A golden age of architectural drawing awaits"
The devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower has highlighted the widespread neglect of the UK's residential high-rises, and the undeserved contempt held for the people that live in them, says Owen Hatherley. More about "A lethal failure of oversight, like at Grenfell Tower, was going to happen sooner or later"
Rounding off our celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday, Aaron Betsky dissects the American architect's array of buildings to prove why his body of work remains unmatched in the USA. More about "Frank Lloyd Wright remains America's greatest architect"
IKEA's blue bag is the perfect pop-culture reference for a generation stuck in a rotation of rental flats, says Will Wiles in his latest Opinion column. More about "IKEA's Frakta has broken through into design consciousness"
The Japanese House exhibition at London's Barbican doesn't offer solutions to the housing crisis, says Owen Hatherley, but it does show what's possible when architects respond to extreme change and instability. More about "The Japanese House is about fear, imagination, aggression and dreams"
We need to stop promoting "female architects" in worthy lists and exhibitions, so that women can be seen as more than second-class citizens, argues Danish architect Dorte Mandrup. More about "I am not a female architect. I am an architect"
As automation places millions of us at risk of losing our jobs, now is the time to rethink how humans and robots will coexist on this planet, says designer Madeline Gannon in this Opinion column. More about "How do you avoid a robot apocalypse?"
Awards should not be bestowed on buildings that boast sustainable credentials but lack other design merits, says Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More about "There should be no top 10 prizes for sustainable architecture"
If today's architects abandoned their modern vocabulary in favour of populist traditional or classical styles, they could achieve more progressive social goals, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
As Design Academy Eindhoven searches for yet another creative director, a group of alumni is urging the school to make a choice that enhances the influential school's creativity, rather than its business model. Former student Jules van den Langenberg explains why. More about "The Design Academy is dead, long live the Design Academy"
For some architects, the decision not to bid for Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall is easy. But Aaron Betsky questions whether working on the project is as unethical as it first seemed in this Opinion column. More about "Architects may, heaven save their mortal souls, have to work on Trump's wall"
With widespread protest taking place across Belarus, the design of public spaces and social legacies has become a critical project for the nation's architects, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "Belarus is a place that badly needs shaking up"
We need to stop concentrating our energies on hazard-proofing playgrounds, and worry instead about how our buildings and environments could be better suited to children, says Phineas Harper in this Opinion column. More about "Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
Is it possible to speak buildings into being? The exhibitors at annual property fair MIPIM may try, but they need to come up with far more extreme fictions, says Sam Jacob in his latest Opinion column. More about "MIPIM is one big performance with the purpose of speaking cities into existence"
Estonia's e-residency programme suggests how passports could more accurately reflect the rich and complex nature of identity, says Dan Hill, following the launch of our Brexit passport design competition. More about "Who will design a passport capable of containing multiple nested identities?"