Opinion
“Design studios should start organising running clubs”
“Architects are obsessed with talent”
“Under capitalism, we cannot make ethical, sustainable products affordable”
“Japan has perfected the art of questioning the norm”
“Violence against women and girls isn’t just a design problem”
“In post-disaster cities like Los Angeles, we need new model homes and we need them now”
“The days of dressing up superfluous stuff and placing it amid vapid installations surely need to stop”
“There has never been a true ‘transition’ away from coal, oil – or even wood”
“It’s no surprise to see art deco being avidly embraced by the likes of Elon Musk”
“Stalin, Hitler and Trump all tried to block modernist architecture”
“Patrik Schumacher presents a stark and exclusionary vision of the state of architecture”
“It’s hard to imagine an effective recovery from the LA fires”
“Glastonbury is not an escape from the real world but a snapshot of what is to come”
“We’re talking about a 50-million-year-old species on the brink that just needs a brick with a hole in it”
“Fakery and deception is everywhere at Venice Architecture Biennale 2025”
“What on earth is regenerative design?”
“The fears raised by those original renderings have been fully realised”
“We are collectively suffering through a crisis of imagination”
“Art deco’s success has unwittingly served to conceal the horrors of colonialism”
“Osaka should know better than to erase all evidence of Expo 2025”
“When we place people on a pedestal, we only diminish ourselves”
“I wrote the first English book on art deco”
“The Brutalist somehow manages to get the architecture all wrong”