Architecture
Architecture
"Does architecture have a Harvey Weinstein hiding within its ranks?"
Architecture has a culture of quietly condoning sexist behaviour, just like Hollywood, argues Anna Winston. More
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Opinion
Opinion
"The architecture of the Americas is not white"
The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in Los Angeles show that arts and culture from south of the border have shaped an architectural identity for the region that is much more interesting than what's found in the Northeast US, says Aaron Betsky. More
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DDW 2017
DDW 2017
"Designers can contribute to a better world, but not if we dictate how they do it"
Ahead of the launch of our Good Design for a Bad World, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs asked: "Can design save the world?" In this response, Louise Schouwenberg argues that global issues can't be placed on the shoulders of guilt-ridden designers alone. More
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Graphics
Graphics
"A war against branding is a war against people"
By making tobacco companies follow strict packaging restrictions, we're paving the way to a future where brands no longer reflect our lifestyles, argues Stephen Bayley, following the launch of his new book Signs of Life: Why Brands Matter. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform"
A disdain for trade unions is preventing architects from challenging the industry's low standards of workers' rights, argues Phineas Harper. More
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Chicago Biennial
Chicago Biennial
"Chicago Biennial shows us how we might find building blocks for a new architecture"
This year's Chicago Biennial doesn't provide a blueprint for the future of architecture, but it does offer clues for how to create one, says Aaron Betsky. More
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Seoul Biennale
Seoul Biennale
"Seoullo is no High Line, but it is of equal importance"
MVRDV's plant-covered walkway in Seoul may look like a low-budget version of the High Line, but it's much more than that – it's the sign of a new frontier in city-making, says new Dezeen columnist Gerard Reinmuth. More
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DDW 2017
DDW 2017
"Can designers save the world?"
Ahead of the launch of our Good Design for a Bad World initiative, Dezeen editor-in chief Marcus Fairs asks, can designers make a difference when it comes to global challenges like climate change, terrorism and political shocks? More
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Chicago Biennial
Chicago Biennial
"Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks"
The second Chicago Architecture Biennial tackles the broad and tempestuous topic of history, but plays it too safe, says Mimi Zeiger in this Opinion column. More
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UK
UK
"Let's save some of the Whitechapel Fatberg"
The 130-tonne "fatburg" discovered below the streets of east London earlier this month serves as a reminder of how sophisticated Victorian engineering has liberated people from having to think about waste, says Will Wiles. More
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Design
Design
"Why are designers whining about design thinking?"
Opinion: Design thinking is the management phrase that makes real designers shudder. Can designers let go and accept it as a form of flattery, or should they be worried about business strategists edging into their territory, asks Lucas Verweij. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"Astana is a metropolis of obsolescence"
Astana Expo 2017 may have aspired to a post-carbon future, but it was hard to imagine from the capital of a country made wealthy by fossil fuels, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The more we build in areas that endanger us, the more we erect defensive systems"
Disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are inevitable when we construct cities in harm's way, says Aaron Betsky, who believes we have designed ourselves into a Catch-22 of create and protect. More
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Opinion
Opinion
"Urban design caused the Hurricane Harvey disaster"
Houston's poor urban planning, not climate change, is to blame for the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Harvey, says disaster expert Ilan Kelman in this Opinion column. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The Garden Bridge's cancellation provides an opportunity that mustn't be wasted"
Now that the Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge has been officially scrapped, its time to think again about what London really needs, says Owen Hatherley. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"The architectural world seems to be responding to Charlottesville with deafening silence"
When neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, architects need to step up and confront the issues surrounding colonial monuments, argues Phineas Harper. More
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Architecture
Architecture
"We have much to learn from the 'timber constructivists'"
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
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UK
UK
"Designers, contractors or the local authority could all be blamed for breaching a duty to warn"
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
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UK
UK
"You could imagine Theresa May looking with profound sympathy at Britlins"
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
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Fashion
Fashion
"Rei Kawakubo is an architect of clothes"
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