“Style: In defence of Post-Modernism”
by Patrick Lynch | 20 February 2016 In this witty and robust defence, Adam Nathaniel Furman makes a case for thinking about postmodernism as a style and as a way life – or rather, as the expression of the diversity of ways of living that emerged in the 1960s in affluent western societies: Civil Rights, Gay Rights, etc. He convincingly elides these social phenomena with the various strands of architectural thinking that one finds...
The Great Mall of China
‘Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China’ . – by Nick Jewell — After three and a half decades of double-digit growth, China finally appears to be slowing. Even though the modest figures it now reports would be the envy of many Western economies, neo-liberal commentators are gleefully lining up to augur the death of the ‘Chinese Dream’. Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but the economic slowdown may just...
What if Architects became Developers?
A well-informed examination of our current situation with frequent comparisons to historic precedents
Free Will: An Illusion?
Free will is an illusion. Quite a claim, and one that dominates much contemporary scientific thinking.
Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy
In October of 2010, Ai Weiwei filled the turbine hall at the Tate Modern with 100 million handmade porcelain sunflower seeds.
Context by Eric Parry
A gathering of Eric Parry’s personal preoccupations on specific locations and projects.
Late-Nite Review – COMING SOON
Set up by the Future Cities Project, Late-Nite Review: The Future City is a new forum for critical exchange within the profession, an autonomous environment in which to develop open inquiry. The forum provides a space where architects present their work to a panel of architects, critics, commentators and pundits as a means to open up discussion, explore new ideas and debate the future direction of the city. For further details,...
Tianjin in perspective
“Disasters on the scale of (this) tragic explosion … tend to provoke a brief wave of statements that such things must never happen again.
Playing Rough
The installations all seem to be a bit of fun, but there does seem to be a sinister undertone.
A Tale of Two Cities
Are soaring property prices that push young Londoners out of their city, simply a price for London’s global success?
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