Overview
MoMA: Neighbourhood Bully
MoMA’s uncompromising plan to demolish the American Folk Art Museum defies the fine craft heritage of modern art
Disturbing development in Zanzibar Subscription
A sombre report by Rafeal Marks of Zanzibar’s cultural mixture of vernacular architecture which is not seeing the benefits of regeneration
A scandal of French neglect
It is incomprehensible that Eileen Gray’s legendary love nest has been left to languish by the French authorities
Printed Matter
Increasing advancements behind 3D printing have triggered much excitement amongst architects and the media but is such fascination misguided?
Winning Ideas
The culture of competitions in architecture signals a creative future but, warns Sarah Ichioka, we must be careful this proliferation of ideas remains progressive to the profession
Pritzker Grade Inflation
As Toyo Ito picks up the Pritzker Prize, William JR Curtis finds the ratcheting up of the award’s rhetoric unmatched by the quality of its winners
GOLD WATCH
RIBA Gold Medal winner Peter Zumthor talks about the ‘relaxed concentration’ from which good design can originate
A Touch of Glass
MVRDV reinterpret the curtain wall with a printed glass facade in Schijndel, Netherlands
Mushroom clouds Subscription
The Metropol Parasol in Seville has been shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award. An outraged William JR Curtis wants to know why
The Great Divide
The Cartesian split of mind and matter has hampered our thinking about architecture for too long, but that could all be about to change
A Fuller Understanding
Scientist and artist Rachel Armstrong and sociologist Steve Fuller cast new light on the ecological approaches to building at the RCA/AR lecture Architecture & Ecology held at London’s V&A Museum
New World Order Subscription
The Sustaining Identity symposium examins a seismic shift in thinking for architecture that enhances cultural character rather than homogonising it
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A masterplan for China, XJTLU University Suzhou Subscription
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Breakdown in the grid Subscription
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Turkish delights at the new Biennale Subscription
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Advanced Geometry Lessons at the Pompidou
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The Wright move to MOMA
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Peter Cook visits the Venice Biennale Subscription
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School buildings produce culture
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The Art of Protest Subscription
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Reborn: Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic Subscription
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A Matter of Life and Death Subscription
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Brute forces in Berlin Subscription
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VANDALISM IN THE LAND OF PATRIMONY Subscription
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Design March of Progress
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Obituary: Luis Moreno Mansilla Subscription
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A message to China Subscription
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Constructivist Glory in the Ukraine Subscription
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Obituary: Martin Charles Subscription
