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
As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession. More about Everything that's going wrong with architecture
While Neom struggles to create ground-breaking urbanism, it is having more success replicating suburbia in the desert, writes Tom Ravenscroft. More about "Neom promised radical urbanism but is delivering sterile desert suburbia"
As a certain prominent American grabs headlines with his home renovation works, Julie Lasky considers why people in the US often make ill-advised choices about residential architecture. More about "Trump is not necessarily being pathological, he is simply being American"
People have long searched for ways to reduce the time it takes to construct buildings but instead we should be trying to slow architecture down, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Like fast food and fast fashion, fast architecture is inevitably less fulfilling"
The proliferation of St George's flags across England raises questions about design's capacity to influence political forces in today's world, writes Catharine Rossi. More about "The St George's cross speaks of the power of design to transform public space"
The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects and engineers, writes Mohamed Ismail. More about "Recognition is long overdue for the local architects of tropical modernism"
Training architects about the business side of designing buildings would have major benefits for the profession, writes Erin Agdinaoay. More about "Financial literacy needs to be a part of every architect's training"
The UK has bags of talented young student and graduate designers who demonstrate that design education is worth funding, writes Alice Fisher. More about "Make sure you accept any opportunity you get to talk to students and see their work"
Following the recent deaths of British architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, Catherine Slessor reflects on their intertwined but highly distinct careers. More about "That generation of men who grew up toying with Meccano and went on to change the world is finally leaving the stage"
Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign fails to identify the causes of poor-quality architecture or ways to tackle them, writes Owen Hopkins. More about "Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is an incredibly reductive way of assessing the built environment"
Rumours of the metaverse's demise are greatly exaggerated – particularly when it comes to designing virtual buildings, writes Sarah Housley. More about "The idea of designing for virtual worlds is just getting started"
Design needs to shift its focus away from self-critique towards galvanising the public to resist the political crises facing the US and the world, writes Susan Yelavich. More about "In the process of resisting social and environmental harm, has design become too inward facing?"
Hurricane Katrina served as a wake up call that has led to US cities becoming more resilient and safer, writes Amy Chester on the 20th anniversary of the deadly disaster. More about "The knowledge we have built from storm to storm is the true legacy of Hurricane Katrina"
Governments' failure to agree a treaty on curbing plastics pollution draws attention to how reliant on the material we have become but there may be a silver lining, writes Smith Mordak. More about "We need plastic to keep our economic order going"