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Mind-Bending Buildings That Were Never Meant to Be Built
When we talk about architecture, we’re usually talking about buildings that serve some practical purpose. The walls keep us warm and out of the wind, the roof shields us from rain. These are our homes,...
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Guardian’s best architecture books of 2014
Some of this year’s best books about architecture are about something else, and touch the Mother of the Arts only tangentially. This is as it should be: architecture only really makes sense in relation...
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Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier
In “Modern Man,” Anthony Flint attempts to liberate Le Corbusier from the indictments that have plagued his legacy. “His ideas and his template for disruption have value that has been obscured by the...
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Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence
Japanese architecture and urbanism is often hailed for its sensitivity, using design approaches rooted in centuries-old cultural thinking and symbolism. Notions of temporality, transience and...
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A closer look at the Modernist utopia Crestwood Hills
In 1947, on the hills above Brentwood, the newly formed Mutual Housing Assn. broke ground on an ambitious 800-acre neighborhood development named Crestwood Hills. Now the little-known story behind the...
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Book Release / Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand
Drawing from Practice by J. Michael Welton explores and illuminates the ways that 26 diverse and reputable architects use freehand drawing to shape the built environment. In this generously illustrated...
View ArticleBoundaries releases “Compact Living” Issue
Reducing the scale of our needs, going back to smaller scale living, can have many advantages, including the recovery of one of the last horizons of luxury in our contemporary lives: time.
View ArticleConcrete Ideas in Architecture
A new two-volume set, ‘100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings,’ looks at the different ways architects are using the material
View Articlesuperkül releases first monograph to celebrate first ten years in practice
Toronto-based architectural firm superkül announced the launch of the firm’s first book, Rain, Gravity, Heat, Cold
View ArticleWood to warm up modern architecture
The new book ‘100 Contemporary Wood Buildings’ showcases today’s most innovative uses of the material
View ArticleLast Futures by Douglas Murphy – utopian architecture, from space colonies to...
How the shining architectural optimism of the 1960s and 70s has ultimately produced buildings such as supermarkets, open-plan offices and other spaces of control
View ArticleAging Gracefully: How a New Architecture for Old Age Helps Everyone
Architect Matthias Hollwich's book New Aging offers a radical blueprint for rethinking and redesigning old age
View Article‘The prettiest park in Los Angeles’ and why a freeway runs through it
Freeways are brutal structures. And they have been dropped into many communities
View ArticleWhere JEAN NOUVEL, architecte terrible, gets all his best ideas
In a nation that makes celebrities of its philosophers and literary critics, Nouvel is more than a designer of buildings ...
View ArticleFive steps for tackling housing affordability in Sydney
Sydney could make housing more affordable by adopting a few ideas from London
View ArticleSheffield’s Park Hill: the tangled reality of an extraordinary brutalist dream
To some, the redevelopment of Sheffield’s giant concrete housing estate is long overdue. ...
View ArticleThe quiet revolution in British housing
Once upon a time new housing in Britain was terrible.
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright expert explains Usonian architecture
The Rosenbaum house is frequently called one of the best examples of Usonian architecture ...
View ArticleStorage Container Buildings: Why Architecture Needs to Mobilize
Repeating the word “location” ad nauseum passes wisdom in circles, because that’s the thing that matters....
View ArticleNo cafe, no pub, no doctor in London’s most isolated suburb
In Barking Riverside, where the opening of a Morrisons Local was cause for celebration, residents have been waiting for a rail link since the 1990s
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