Paper Primacy: fantasy architecture with purpose

Energy: zero impact

This new exhibiton is only the second so far to be developed just by the Maxxi’s curatory staff. Zaira Magliozzi writes on whether it meets the expectations of the new museum

Clique within a clique

The artistic indiviualities of members of The Independant Group created potent synergies

Gray Matters

As the enigmatic Eileen Gray benefits a full retrospective, Andrew Ayers asks whether it reflects on her character

Pedagogy: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

A wealth of professional connections and habit to defy tradition fuels this Italian powerhouse, Matthew Barac reports from the world design capital

Refugee Cities: Under the sheltering sky

What happens when temporary structures become inadvertantly permanent? Manuel Herz’s new book addresses this situation occuring in North African refugee camps

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus reduced even to its own door handles is considered to be Gropius’ greatest achievements.

Academic Painter: Scolari & Representation

The trajectory of the non-building architect Massimo Scolari

Architecture for Dogs

Architecture for Dogs asks world-class architects and designers to work at the canine scale

Pedagogy: University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Taking local marginalised neighbourhoods as urban laboratories students at UJ are encouraged to design radical schemes rooted in context

Hand of Corb

A new exhibition in Stockholm collects a vast archive of Le Corbusier’s work, including paintings, sculptures, furniture and other objects by the famous architect

Et in arcadia ego

Ayla Lepine reviews the exhibition White Cube Green Maze: New Art Landscapes taking place at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery

The New Socialist Village

A thinktank at the Architectural Association considers the potential and paradoxes behind this polemic research project

Kuma Chameleon

Kengo Kuma’s Complete Works exceeds expectations of a typical monograph, addressing the cultural and moral dimensions of the Japanese architect’s career

Herman Hertzberger

Spanning through seven decades, Herman Hertzberger’s career as both architect and professor is reviewed

CAA Student Competition

The ninth CAA student competition considered how the world’s growing ageing population will shift approaches to architecture, reports Catherine Slessor

Materiality Girls

Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture explores what it means to employ feminism in design, but can the exposed design methods really be considered radical?

Cultural Crucible

Tracking the transformation of Berlin up to the second World War, Metropolis Berlin 1880–1940 is a rich, detailed anthology of the city’s changing built environment

PEDAGOGY: FAUP, PORTUGAL

Sketching and hand drawing are integral to the architecture program at FAUP despite the growing digitalisation of architecture

Fernando Távora

As history unfolds, unexpected connections appear between the recent and the more distant past. Works which were once discussed as central retreat into the background, while others which seemed marginal at the time move into the foreground.

Potemkin cities

Daniel Brook examines the cosmopolitan condition of the modern city in his new book A History of Future Cities

Character Building

The book Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yinzao Fashi Building Manual by Jiren Feng brings new light to the study of Chinese architectural writing