A movement is growing against cultural appropriation, but could it spell the end for historical references in architecture? asks Phineas Harper. More about "Architects are not just relaxed about cultural appropriation, we're experts"
A disdain for trade unions is preventing architects from challenging the industry's low standards of workers' rights, argues Phineas Harper. More about "Middle-class guilt is weaponised to keep architectural labourers from demanding reform"
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 about Free New Architecture Writers course opens to aspiring design journalists from racial minorities
When neo-Nazis are marching in the streets, architects need to step up and confront the issues surrounding colonial monuments, argues Phineas Harper. More about "The architectural world seems to be responding to Charlottesville with deafening silence"
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 about "Call us dull, call us sellouts, call us gentrifiers – just don't call us copycats"
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 about "To confront populism, all architects should become classicists"
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 about "Why do architects dictate children's play so stringently?"
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 about "Poverty should never be an Instagram filter"
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 about "It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher"
Death urgently needs a redesign, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
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 about "The housing crisis isn't a crisis, it's a design project"
Opinion: "intellectual vapidity and weasel-minded corporate ambition" are sucking the life out of architectural criticism. But there is still hope, says Catherine Slessor. More about "Cerebral, self-absorbed, tepid, dull and decorous"
Competition: Dezeen is giving away four pairs of tickets to a series of architectural discussions in London, which aim to "turn the conventional archi-debate format on its head". More about Competition: win tickets to Turncoats architecture debate series