Opinion
“The Petersen isn’t a good building, it’s a western-town front posing as architecture”
“This noxious story highlights the car industry’s obsession with technology instead of humans”
“Chicago boldly imagines its own definition of what a biennial might be”
“Foster and Aravena are moving architecture out of the shallows and into deeper water”
“Prison Architect is a graveyard for the utopian spirit where noble ambitions go to die”
“Academics need to break out of their loop and get back into the real world”
“Architecture is finally moving beyond a homogeneous status quo”
“Grace Farms is a trophy building, not a light-on-the-land wilderness retreat”
“Charisma allows the architect to speak with authority, even when he has no clue”
“Creatives are mythologised as the tooth fairies of urban renewal”
Design is about people – including refugees
“Let’s stop acting like the wedge is not architecture”
“The smart city is the ultimate free-for-all”
“The political influence of the family home should not be underestimated in Israel/Palestine”
“Saakashvili didn’t need interesting architects to design the New Georgia”
“Manhattan is theirs, we just get to admire it”
“Architecture’s eccentrics and outsiders can be retrospectively recast as prophets”
“Eames has become a vaguely suggestive word applied to alchemise junk shop remnants”
“Chicago is a living laboratory of future infrastructure”
“Prescribed design processes are for bad designers”
“Massive, horrible and unavoidable”
“The destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra is an assault on human culture”
“These initiatives represent an opportunistic desire to play with extreme conditions”
