Opinion
“Postmodernism will not be forgiven lightly for what it did to architectural culture”
“Postmodernism’s real qualities are mean and difficult, yet also psychedelically positive”
“Can design reclaim and redeem the humble souvenir?”
“The smart city blinds us to the possibility of political action”
“The insidious return of hippie architecture”
“Washington DC’s aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles”
“This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city”
“Mad Max cornered the market in a particular vision of the post-apocalyptic future”
“Elon Musk’s Powerwall could change the carbon footprint of entire societies”
“Women were unwelcome in architecture, but male architects couldn’t live without them”
“Modern architecture needs projects like this”
“Kink and fetish has much to teach mainstream design culture”
“Experimental architecture emerged to question Postmodernism’s jokes”
“How dull and uninspired the approach to solving the UK’s housing problems has become”
“The real problem with all this Fun is that it isn’t really very funny”
“Can Heatherwick produce architecture that is more than a gimmick or a gadget?”
“More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation”
“The much-trumpeted separation between education and practice is a convenient invention”
“In New York, architecture with a sense of social purpose is becoming increasingly rare”
“Design is more than perfume, aesthetics and trends”
“The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it”
“Biennials and design fairs function much like film festivals”
“It’s time to rid ourselves of the obsession with the new”
