Opinion
“Getting people into space is one thing. Creating somewhere they actually want to live is quite another”
“Reinventing higher education requires architecture to reinvent itself too”
“Is touching really asking too much?”
“I find it icky to glibly invoke brain chemistry in the marketing of style”
“The Mackintosh Building should be rebuilt without the Glasgow School of Art”
“If no one ever sits there, is a balcony still a balcony?”
“The World Cup is a unique opportunity to make different public transit approaches visible”
“There’s no point hoping that this RIBA presidential election can make much difference”
“Design weeks need to start framing repair as aspirational”
“The Obama Presidential Center unquestionably breaks free of tired precedent”
“Parametricism is a technophile triumph of fetishised process over outcome”
“Times have changed and the power of money has contaminated culture”
“We remove places where young people can gather in small groups, then panic when they gather in large ones”
“Too often, neurodiverse design is a marketing ploy”
“In Canada, design still receives remarkably little recognition”
“Plants on a building doesn’t make it sustainable, any more than a basil leaf on a steak makes it vegan”
“Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind”
“Stadiums are the most significant expression of monumentality in our time”
“As so often seems to happen, Koolhaas got there first”
“IKEA has challenged the rest of the design world”
“An architectural style has emerged that I’m calling ‘gentleism'”
“Design fairs need to adopt an AI policy, and need to do it now”
“The relationship between architecture and capitalism on which parametricism was premised ceased to exist long ago”
