Opinion
“Italo Rota’s all-encompassing definition of architecture is needed today more than ever”
“True trends always answer a need”
“The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site”
“Women remain an anomaly in the architectural curriculum”
“Bowing out gracefully is a rare thing in the starchitect firmament”
“We need a major shift in the way we look at public housing”
“Stone makes sense, but it is not a silver bullet”
“Legends Tower is a very 20th-century way to say that you are squarely entering the 21st century”
“We must abandon the ordered, rational, learned good taste and comfort we’ve become used to”
“Miami’s slow-motion infrastructure meltdown is already apparent”
“COPs have become the climatic Olympic Games, except they happen each year with no winners”
“Peach is the right colour, but for all the wrong reasons”
“Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites”
“Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need”
“The male domination of the Pritzker Prize seems almost wilful”
“There can be no doubt that this is urbicide”
“The state of Britain’s ageing homes has become a national shame”
“The allure of the ‘bio’ prefix must be taken with some healthy scrutiny”
“We need to design for human behaviour if we’re ever to get rid of single-use plastics”
“Our biggest climate challenge is no longer denial, but despair”
“The Cybertruck encapsulates a dystopian future vision where the United States is sliding into lawlessness”
“Ratti’s Venice biennale appointment marks a screeching U-turn”
“Pods have quietly become a standard part of our open-plan interior landscape”