Opinion
“Postmodernism’s real qualities are mean and difficult, yet also psychedelically positive”
“Experimental architecture emerged to question Postmodernism’s jokes”
“The smart city blinds us to the possibility of political action”
“The real problem with all this Fun is that it isn’t really very funny”
“Washington DC’s aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles”
“More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation”
“Mad Max cornered the market in a particular vision of the post-apocalyptic future”
“In New York, architecture with a sense of social purpose is becoming increasingly rare”
“Women were unwelcome in architecture, but male architects couldn’t live without them”
“The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it”
“Kink and fetish has much to teach mainstream design culture”
“It’s time to rid ourselves of the obsession with the new”
“How dull and uninspired the approach to solving the UK’s housing problems has become”
“Can design reclaim and redeem the humble souvenir?”
“Can Heatherwick produce architecture that is more than a gimmick or a gadget?”
“The insidious return of hippie architecture”
“The much-trumpeted separation between education and practice is a convenient invention”
“This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city”
“Design is more than perfume, aesthetics and trends”
“Elon Musk’s Powerwall could change the carbon footprint of entire societies”
“Biennials and design fairs function much like film festivals”
“Modern architecture needs projects like this”
“Marketing efforts surrounding design festivals create an oddly temporary gentrification”
