Two steps forward, one step back
Chris Williamson, president of the RIBA has made a stand, possibly more profound and challenging than any previous incumbent.
BEST BOOKS OF 2025
Some of the Future Cities Project Readers’ Group and Paper Review regulars have chosen their favourite books of 2025. If you’re looking for stocking fillers, or just great books, read on.
Dumbed Down Design Education
While the ARB talks about “competency”, there has never been so much bewildered incompetence prevalent in the profession as there is today.
Trump’s Chinese Playbook
Trump is leaving behind Western ways of doing things and beginning to read from the Chinese authoritarian playbook
Pantomime? Oh no it isn’t.
The unenlightened in the audience – those who didn’t get it – were revealed as the real stage villains of the piece.
A Disparaging Remark
If more architecture students understood what a legal minefield they were entering they might decide to go off and do something else instead.
Five Critical Essays
Offering hospitality to a dissenting view as evidence that the closure of our democratic traditions is not yet complete.
What’s in a name?
What designers do, and how they describe themselves, is important. By the 1990s, the graphic designer and the craft of design was being written out of the script.
Corroding the Curriculum
Parents and teachers would be horrified to find political parties in schools pushing partisan agendas, but seem happy for environmental lobbyists to hand out leaflets, write lesson plans, and prepare coursework.
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