Life’s Work
AT Editor2017-10-24T16:07:08+01:00Books
Will Alsop enjoys Richard Rogers’ tale of his life in architecture
Mission to Rome
AT Editor2017-10-16T10:53:54+01:00History
In an excerpt from his new book on the architecture of diplomacy, James Stourton recounts the creation of the British Embassy in Rome
Portman’s Progression
AT Editor2017-09-29T11:57:57+01:00Book
A rise in the reputation of visionary American architect John Portman may be under way, suggests Adam Nathaniel Furman
Beyond Style
AT Editor2017-09-21T12:04:58+01:00Book
‘Redefining Brutalism’ offers an interpretation of architectural ethics rather than fashionable aesthetics, finds Nicola Rutt
100 Houses, 100 Years
AT Editor2017-09-22T09:54:09+01:00Book
Residential highlights of the century, selected by the Twentieth Century Society
Home Remedies
AT Editor2017-09-01T16:25:22+01:00Viewpoint
A new study of exemplary projects finds that architects can play a vital role in promoting the development of social housing, says co-author Abigail Batchelor
Wright Angles
AT Editor2017-07-07T16:15:25+01:00History
Gwyn Lloyd Jones traces Frank Lloyd Wright’s foreign tours for his study of ‘the first global architect’
Narrative Voice
AT Editor2017-05-30T15:11:37+01:00History
Claire Jamieson, author of a new monograph on NATØ, examines the enduring significance of the ‘last radical architectural group of the twentieth century’
Aalto Encounters
AT Editor2017-05-23T15:17:18+01:00Books
Surprising revelations emerge in John Stewart's masterly examination of the life of the great Finnish architect
Back to the Future
AT Editor2023-04-21T10:37:43+01:00Books Elain Harwood’s monumental ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Archittecture 1945-1975’ honours an era of architectural optimism, finds Owen Hatherley
Lines of Thought
AT Editor2017-05-18T09:32:16+01:00Viewpoint
As a collection of his architectural commentary is published, Robert Adam considers the purpose and pleasures of writing on building
Subway Sublime
AT Editor2017-04-27T11:52:12+01:00Books
‘Hidden Urbanism’ is a useful and informative guide to the Moscow Metro, but one of the greatest artworks of the twentieth century still awaits its definitive account, says Owen Hatherley