The relationship between architecture and capitalism on which parametricism was premised ceased to exist long ago
Parametricism can never become a dominant architecture style now that the forces of capitalism are no longer interested…
Zumthor’s LACMA captures the strangeness of our times
As Peter Zumthor‘s highly anticipated Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens, local writer Shane Reiner-Roth examines how the…
Architects must prepare for the next pandemic
Architects have an important role to play in making societies more resilient to the threat of future health…
Trump’s presidential library skyscraper makes sense
Critics who bash Donald Trump‘s design concept for a presidential skyscraper library are too fixated on style and…
In the rush to draw a line under the age of the starchitect, we’re at risk of losing more than we think
The starchitect era is coming to an end but, like it or not, architecture still needs powerful individuals,…
News about architecture no longer being a ‘professional degree’ is devastating, and also welcome
The US Government’s exclusion of architecture from its list of “professional” degrees prompts an overdue discussion about the…
Five ways that architecture education needs to change
In order to save architecture the prevailing approach to architecture education must be allowed to die, writes Harriet…
Recognition is long overdue for the local architects of tropical modernism
The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects…
That generation of men who grew up toying with Meccano and went on to change the world is finally leaving the stage
Following the recent deaths of British architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, Catherine Slessor reflects on their intertwined…