Sarah Featherstone explains how a modest community building in Grangetown, Cardiff, challenges the way we define and measure value and shows how universities can partner with local residents to facilitate community-led projects.
For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography.
Yusti Herrera of Ian Chalk Architects explains how revisiting historic methods of reading the landscape informed the practice’s approach to building a new house in collaboration with RA Studio in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Cornish coast
Hannah Brewster from ADP makes the case for using empty retail space to take outpatient services out of the hospital and onto the high street.
Josh Fenton reflects on the importance of casual self-reflective writing as a means of opening a door into the ‘other’ part of the architect’s brain and for developing architectural positions and ideas.
Events With digital events now the norm, Bobby Jewell looks at what this means for practices hoping to host
Viewpoint Architectural award-winners are increasingly diverse, but we can't stop pushing for better representation says Zoë Berman
Sustainability
Architectural historians Barnabas Calder and Daniel A Barber have both recently written books exploring the influence of energy on architecture. In conversation for AT they discuss this growing field
Viewpoint Housing developers benefit from hearing a wider range of voices, says Chloë Phelps, head of design at Brick by Brick
Viewpoint
The authors and subjects that dominate our bookshelves reinforce inequalities in architecture, says Zoë Berman
Events
Digital events have allowed the continuation of cultural life during lockdown, but will we want them when it’s over, asks Ruth Lang?
