With 2016 coming to an end, Will Wiles doses out his New Year's resolutions for architecture and design in 2017, which include resisting the hygge trend and finally taking responsibility for the climate. More about New Year's resolutions for architecture and design in 2017
The sleepy town of Letchworth, England, may have been the first garden city, but it wasn't particularly radical, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "The best new towns achieved something the original garden city never did"
US architects disillusioned by the AIA's post-election sentiment should use critical speculation to help reimagine the country's built environment and remain hopeful, suggests Mimi Zeiger in this Opinion column. More about "Design strategies robust enough to resist this new political climate have yet to emerge"
The problem with Britain's railway stations isn't anything to do with style, it's that they are all just malls waiting to happen, argues Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "With a good culture war, you can ignore the real reason why British transport architecture is so grim"
Patrik Schumacher's views on housing may be hard for some to swallow, but pressuring him into silence sets a dangerous example, argues Austin Williams in this Opinion column. More about "We need more Schumachers prepared to shake up consensus thinking"
Patrik Schumacher's vision for a deregulated and privatised city is nothing more than a rehash of failed establishment ideas, and we shouldn't pay any attention, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher"
Death urgently needs a redesign, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
A visit to the new IKEA museum reveals a tension at the heart of the company, between Swedish values of openness and tolerance, and a bid for global domination, argues Tom Cubbin in this Opinion column. More about "IKEA is caught between mythological Swedishness and the challenges of the modern world"
Hillary Clinton's plans to improve infrastructure in the USA weren't ambitious enough, but at least she had plans, says Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More about "How Donald Trump will solve America's infrastructure problems is completely unclear"
The garish and self-indulgent buildings developed by Republican candidate Donald Trump reveal a lot about how he would run America if elected president tomorrow, says US architect Doug Staker in this Opinion column. More about "Trumpitecture stands as a sad but honest reflection of the values Trump proudly embodies"
Brutalist or minimalist architecture is better suited to families with children than you might think, says Will Wiles in his latest Opinion column. More about "John Pawson said children love minimalist spaces. And he's right"
Chile and Cuba's contributions to the London Design Biennale suggest that, while the Global South is expected to copy the design of the north, it could offer a more radical future, argues Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "The Global South could create a different, and maybe better, kind of modernity"
Both Amanda Levete's MAAT museum and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale opened in the Portuguese capital earlier this month. Together they prove that architecture is physically shaped by its fiscal situation, says Mimi Zeiger in this week's Opinion. More about "Building cannot be separated from the economics that drive construction"
The design community and foreign policymakers need to attend each other's events and communicate, if we are to find solutions to global urbanisation issues, says US Department of State advisor Ian Klaus. More about "Designers and diplomats must work more closely together"
Colossal public artworks like Thomas Heatherwick's interlinking staircases for New York are the architectural monuments of our time, says Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More about "Installation art has finally taken over the last bastion of architecture"
The UK's housing crisis is no accident, but has been carefully orchestrated to become a catch-all excuse for self-serving projects, argues Phineas Harper in his first Opinion column for Dezeen. More about "The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"
The radical buildings in the English county of Essex suggest that avant-garde architecture is better found in the suburbs than the cities, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "Let's move to radical Essex"
If the government is serious about putting design at the heart of post-Brexit Britain, it must support creative education says Hannah Paterson from the Design Business Association in this Opinion column. More about "Now, more than ever, we need support for creative education"
Aaron Betsky finds lessons for western city planners and designers in amongst the mega-blocks, privatised spaces and urban sprawl of Asian cities. More about "We can't stop super-blocks or sprawl, but we have to make space for life in between"
Opinion: the light-filled, social spaces at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's medical education centre at Columbia University could make future doctors demand more from their workspaces and ultimately pave the way for better hospitals, says Alan G Brake. More about "DS+R's education building suggests architectural innovation can still be put to the public good"