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  • Sam Jacob to convert former London pub into house and nursery

    Architect Sam Jacob has unveiled plans to convert a former east-London pub into a home for himself and a nursery, including curving facades and assorted window shapes. More

    Jessica Mairs | 19 April 2016 | 5 comments
  • "The copy in contemporary culture is both despised and feared"

    Opinion: by walking out of Berlin's Neues Museum with an illicit 3D scan of the bust of Queen Nefertiti, a pair of artists has forced us to question whether conservation is an act of care or a radical form of repression, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 25 February 2016 | 1 comment
  • "Toys have become small plastic tablets of moral code that we hand down to the next generation"

    Opinion: toy makers have designed a disturbingly codified world for children that says more about adult self-loathing than how kids really want to play, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 22 January 2016 | 5 comments
  • "What would you do with a piece of Thatcher memorabilia?"

    Opinion: London auction house Christie's is auctioning off trinkets and clothing from the estate of Margaret Thatcher, one of the UK's most controversial prime ministers. Sam Jacob takes a closer look at some of the items on offer. More

    Sam Jacob | 14 December 2015 | 4 comments
  • "Chicago boldly imagines its own definition of what a biennial might be"

    Opinion: the Chicago Architecture Biennial stands out from an avalanche of pointless events by doing things its own way, says Sam Jacob. But can it be sustained? More

    Sam Jacob | 29 November 2015 | Leave a comment
  • "Eames has become a vaguely suggestive word applied to alchemise junk shop remnants"

    Opinion: as London's Barbican gallery launches a major retrospective on Modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, Sam Jacob wonders whether it matters that the Eames name has taken on a life of its own. More

    Sam Jacob | 20 October 2015 | 2 comments
  • Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition

    London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More

    Emma Tucker | 19 September 2015 | Leave a comment
  • "The destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra is an assault on human culture"

    Opinion: by destroying ancient architecture, ISIS is waging an ideological war on cultural history – it is our responsibility to respond with yet more culture, says Sam Jacob.  More

    Sam Jacob | 10 September 2015 | 2 comments
  • "Postmodernism's real qualities are mean and difficult, yet also psychedelically positive"

    Pomo summer: could there be anything more ridiculous than the idea of a Postmodern revival? It depends what you mean by Postmodernism, says Sam Jacob, in his column for Dezeen's summer season on the controversial movement. More

    Sam Jacob | 13 August 2015 | 3 comments
  • "Kink and fetish has much to teach mainstream design culture"

    Opinion: the world of kink and fetish is built around ideas of power, control and gender – not that different to our relationships with everyday objects, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 14 April 2015 | 1 comment
  • "The Garden Bridge is a magic bullet for a certain idea of the contemporary British city"

    Opinion: the now-defunct architecture firm FAT proposed a green bridge for London's River Thames in the 1990s as a form of social criticism. Now life is imitating art with Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge, FAT co-founder Sam Jacob feels an apology is necessary. More

    Sam Jacob | 22 December 2014 | 9 comments
  • "Cities that score well barely qualify as cities"

    Opinion: increasingly popular lists that judge cities on "liveability" and "quality of life" are dangerous for the future development of our metropoles, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 4 September 2014 | 13 comments
  • "Experience a version of history without the homework"

    Opinion: Dubrovnik, with its Game of Thrones-buoyed tourism industry, is a historical drag act that exposes conflicting tensions between history, reconstruction and modernity, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 17 July 2014 | 1 comment
  • British pavilion is "a call to arms for contemporary architecture"

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: British pavilion curator and Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob says his exhibition aims to revive the "imaginative visions and entrepreneurial spirit" of postwar public housing projects in Britain (+ movie). More

    Benedict Hobson | 22 June 2014 | 4 comments
  • FAT bring together postwar towns and pop culture for British Pavilion in Venice

    Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the British pavilion at the biennale charts the nation's Modernism using a fluorescent pink mound of earth, a galloping horse made from LEDs, imagery of social housing and a pair of concrete model cows (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 5 June 2014 | 2 comments
  • "Marketing, architecture and development can be an incredibly powerful combination"

    Opinion: show flats for residential developments don't just tell us about a developer's dream demographic – they have the potential to turn a sales fantasy into part of the city's built fabric, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 30 May 2014 | 1 comment
  • "We've got 99 problems but architecture ain't one"

    Opinion: a campaign to protect London's skyline and the UK government's first review into the state of architecture both point to the same thing: Britain's approach to building is broken, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 4 April 2014 | 3 comments
  • "National Parks are synthesised products of urbanisation"

    Opinion: in this latest column Sam Jacob asks whether air fresheners boasting scents from the UK's National Parks are "surreal and distasteful" or a logical extension of the countryside as a product of modern urban life. More

    Sam Jacob | 13 March 2014 | 1 comment
  • "Alongside every dream home is its nightmare twin"

    Opinion: fiction is essential reading for architects because it explores ideas about homes and buildings that are "normally repressed," argues Sam Jacob in this latest column. More

    Sam Jacob | 18 February 2014 | 2 comments
  • "These flip flops are politics disguised as leisurewear"

    Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob investigates how flip flops from a street market have taken their place alongside placards and banners as objects of protest in the recent Bangkok election demonstrations. More

    Sam Jacob | 10 February 2014 | 3 comments
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