Overview
VANDALISM IN THE LAND OF PATRIMONY
In the sorry age of in-your-face bling the real gems of 20th Century France face abandonment, desecration and ruin
Design March of Progress
The Design March exhibition in Reykjavic shows Iceland’s energetic design scene emerging from the country’s infamous economic crash
A message to China
Wang Shu, the Chinese recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Prize, is a champion of architectural heritage in a country that has erased much of its built past
Constructivist Glory in the Ukraine
The Ukraine has joined the ever expanding list of Docomomo nations aiming to secure, maintain and exhibit their Modernist architectural assets
Obituary: Martin Charles
Peter Davey remembers the work of the AR’s and AJ’s house photographer throughout the 60s,70s and 80s
Broader View
Reality Bytes: THE DigitalLY-MEDIATED Urban REVOLUTIONS
Digital media plays an important role in the galvanisation of social movements, says social scientist Merlyna Lim, but can it ever supplant urban space?
An Ecology of Mind
In the 20th century, the diverse work of Gregory Bateson was hugely influential in many fields. Now his thinking and writing could offer an essential guide to the future of architecture and urbanism
Psychology of urban neighbourhoods
Clinical psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove advocates mending the fracture between rich and poor communities
Liberating Science from pervading materialism
Today’s architectural practice is profoundly shaped by dogma that has dominated science since the late 19th Century and yet this influence remains largely unquestioned within the profession.
Prehistoric buildings hold an overlooked social complexity
The discovery of the oldest known wooden stairway in Europe, preserved in an Alpine saltmine, revealed astonishing levels of design sophistication among some of our distant ancestors. Timothy Taylor muses on Bronze Age construction and placemaking and the effects that prehistoric architecture may have had on social control.
Designs for life in Humanity 2.0
As the technological revolution creates growing interactivity between our lives and the things around us, philosopher-turned-sociology professor Steve Fuller considers the social and spatial implications of a world in the near future where everyone and everything is seamlessly interconnected
THE ONLY WAY IS UP
Harvard economist and author of The Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser makes the economic and environmental case for building denser, higher cities
