Opinion
“We have to do better than ugliness and incoherence. We can be woke and good designers as well”
“The creative industries are misreading the public”
“The traditional model of philanthropic support is an ongoing act of self-harm”
“Charles Jencks’ provocation and ever-enquiring spirit has never been more important”
“The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists”
“Goldsmith Street offers a roadmap for precisely the type of housing the UK needs”
“Could all things ‘green’ be the glue that sticks us back together?”
“Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”
“Should architects design provocatively ugly architecture that does not conform to Instagram’s aesthetic conventions?”
“The rapid deterioration of Earth’s biodiversity could be reversed equally quickly if we find new ways to design our cities”
“It is emphatically not the job of architecture education to mimic practice”
“What could Foster bring to social housing today?”
“High-tech is ever edging away from its ecological and humanistic roots”
Indian designers dismiss “design-school propaganda” as they decolonise their work
“To end plastic pollution, we first need to eliminate language pollution”
“Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless”
“Facial recognition is a fundamental threat to society”
“In the age of big data, everything is quantifiable, even happiness”
“What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?”
“The best suburban malls were meccas with superb qualities”
“The basic foolishness is compounded by a screamingly patronising name – Whey Aye”
“What bothers many people is the sense of an alien culture”
“Design can’t solve all our problems, so stop pretending it can”
