Phineas Harper appointed director of Open City
Writer and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper has become director of charity Open City, which runs Open House London. More
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"Traditional architecture has frequently been leveraged to support violent political agendas"
A draft order by Donald Trump to make all new federal buildings classical is the latest example of how traditional architecture is used to disguise racist agendas, says Phineas Harper. More
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"We're seeing an unprecedented mobilisation of architects in the fight against climate change"
With architects changing their ways in response to global warming, Phineas Harper asks: what does radical architecture look like in the era of climate change? More
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"The vision of the home as a tranquil respite from labour is a patriarchal fantasy"
Is the nuclear family home an architectural tool of repression and social control? asks Phineas Harper. More
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"The arms race for cultural dominion has reached new levels of absurdity"
The decision to build the London Centre for Music less than 300 metres away from an existing concert hall is the latest unnecessary example of global high-culture one-upmanship, says Phineas Harper. More
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10 architecture breakthroughs you might have missed in 2018
From a floating university to a network of black female architects, Phineas Harper offers an alternative guide to the year's most important happenings in architecture. More
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"The world's most sustainable office building isn't enough to save the planet"
Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. More
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"What if houses were designed like bikes?"
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the factory-built Futuro House, it's time for a radical rethinking of architectural manufacturing, says Phineas Harper. More
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"Architecture schools are the punching bags of the industry"
It's time to stop blaming architecture schools for systemic problems like poor diversity and the mental health crisis, says Phineas Harper. More
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"Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we're experts"
A movement is growing against cultural appropriation, but could it spell the end for historical references in architecture? asks Phineas Harper. More
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"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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Free writing course opens to aspiring design journalists from racial minorities
A new education programme has launched in London, to encourage young people who are black or minority ethnic to embark on careers in architecture and design journalism. More
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"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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"Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
Architects shouldn't be stifled by their disdain for copying successful ideas, from Assemble's pop-up cinema to Shigeru Ban's cardboard structures, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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"To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
If today's architects abandoned their modern vocabulary in favour of populist traditional or classical styles, they could achieve more progressive social goals, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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"Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
We need to stop concentrating our energies on hazard-proofing playgrounds, and worry instead about how our buildings and environments could be better suited to children, says Phineas Harper in this Opinion column. More
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"Poverty should never be an Instagram filter"
Iwan Baan's arresting images of the Kenyan school built by architect duo Selgascano are a typical example of the slum porn that has infiltrated western media, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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"It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher"
Patrik Schumacher's vision for a deregulated and privatised city is nothing more than a rehash of failed establishment ideas, and we shouldn't pay any attention, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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"Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
Death urgently needs a redesign, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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"The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"
The UK's housing crisis is no accident, but has been carefully orchestrated to become a catch-all excuse for self-serving projects, argues Phineas Harper in his first Opinion column for Dezeen. More
