Women sick of feeling unsafe in their cities may need to consider disruption as a means of effecting change, writes Helen Parton. More about "Design can do more to reduce the built environment's capacity for enabling misogyny"
Architecture needs to get serious about addressing the issues that are causing women to leave the profession, writes Grace Choi. More about "The motherhood penalty should be addressed in every architecture practice"
Thomas Heatherwick has come in for criticism over his Humanise campaign, but here Aidan Walker mounts an impassioned defence of the British designer. More about "We need Heatherwick – he is unique in our generation"
Architects who want a more equitable prison system in the US should focus on designing spaces that can help reduce mass incarceration, write Lori Coppenrath and Marayca Lopez. More about "Design can immediately and practically reduce the number of people in custody"
London's annual Serpentine Pavilion should abandon its commitment to giving overseas architects their first English commission and instead prioritise experimental, purposeful architecture, writes Phineas Harper. More about "When was the last time the Serpentine delivered a banger?"
Luxury brands should donate one per cent of their revenue to the struggling crafts sector to protect the skills their businesses often depend on, writes Katie Treggiden. More about "It's time for the luxury brands who profit from makers' labour to start supporting craft"
Planning's importance in meeting the challenges of climate change in our cities should not be underestimated, writes Hélène Chartier. More about "The best climate activist is a good urban planner"
Brands are backing away from prioritising the planet amid difficult financial conditions but sustainability cannot be a mere trend, writes Caroline Till. More about "Cutting out sustainability in the face of economic downturn is short-term and misguided"
Skyscrapers get a bad rap but are crucial to the success of cities, writes economics professor Jason Barr. More about "Great cities need tall buildings to help them thrive"
The unmissable lack of diversity at Milan design week pointed to a wider issue within the industry, writes Amy Frearson. More about "It has become near impossible for an unproven talent to get a foot in the door"
Architects should finally acknowledge that the profession is no longer a guaranteed route to prosperity and unionise, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Why do so many architects think they are more privileged than they really are?"
Milan design week seemed to show that the industry has given up on reducing its planetary impact and creating products for regular people, writes Max Fraser. More about "Has Milan design week become a victim of its own popularity?"
Design thinking should be substituted for "food thinking" to enable humans to create properly holistic systems that no longer cause ecological chaos, writes Sophie Lovell. More about "Food production is an ideal place to start rethinking how we design"
We need to end our use of plastics for the sake of the planet and human's health, writes the director of Earth Day's end plastic initiatives Aidan Charron. More about "A 60 per cent reduction in plastic is the bare minimum we need the world to do"
Architects should learn from Italo Rota's desire to constantly learn and evolve his view of architecture, Carlo Ratti writes following the Italian architect's death last week. More about "Italo Rota's all-encompassing definition of architecture is needed today more than ever"
As TikTok and other platforms become increasingly flooded with home-styling ideas, Michelle Ogundehin shares advice on how to navigate changing trends in the era of ubiquitous social media. More about "True trends always answer a need"
Peter Barber's architecture proves that providing social housing at scale without making the design mistakes of the past is eminently possible, writes Owen Hatherley as part of our Social Housing Revival series. More about "Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites"
Micro homes are not a humane response to the homelessness crisis, writes Cynthia Griffith as part of our Social Housing Revival series. More about "Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need"
Graffiti on the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza towers is a physical manifestation of increasing tensions over the wealth disparities that blight downtown Los Angeles, writes Shane Reiner-Roth. More about "The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"
Seven years after declaring: "I am not a female architect. I am an architect", Dorte Mandrup writes that gender-based lists remain a symptom of an industry that is changing too slowly. More about "Women remain an anomaly in the architectural curriculum"