Opinion
“Too many architects wear their ignorance of finance as if it were a mark of purity”
Everything that’s going wrong with design
“Trump is not necessarily being pathological, he is simply being American”
“Like fast food and fast fashion, fast architecture is inevitably less fulfilling”
“Financial literacy needs to be a part of every architect’s training”
“Make sure you accept any opportunity you get to talk to students and see their work”
“The idea of designing for virtual worlds is just getting started”
“In the process of resisting social and environmental harm, has design become too inward facing?”
“I’m teaching students not to follow Mies van der Rohe’s example”
“With another academic year over, there are thousands more young people struggling to find an architecture practice”
“A little bit of dereliction in an otherwise-polished city can be glorious”
“Civilization has gone about as far as it can go, chair-wise”
Everything that’s going wrong with architecture
“Neom promised radical urbanism but is delivering sterile desert suburbia”
“The St George’s cross speaks of the power of design to transform public space”
“Recognition is long overdue for the local architects of tropical modernism”
“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 is an incredibly reductive way of assessing the built environment”
“The knowledge we have built from storm to storm is the true legacy of Hurricane Katrina”
“We need plastic to keep our economic order going”
“We must confront design’s colonial inheritance”
“Design and architecture needs a new vocabulary”
“Pessimism plays a crucial part in design”
