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This 19th Century Pastry Chef Predicted Architecture’s Crisis of Values
Charlie Clemoes
How Sukarno’s Games of the New Emerging Forces Briefly Modeled a Vision for a Postcolonial World
Alistair Napier
“Trads Are Modernists and We’re the Real Trads”: Dismantling the Traditional Architecture Movement
Kevin Rogan
,
Joshua McWhirter
and
Michael Nicholas
Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism
Ruth-Anne Richardson
and
Łukasz Stanek
Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving
Giulia De Cunto
and
Francesco Pasta
OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise
Eric Lawler
How The Urban Eclipsed the City: An Interview with Ross Exo Adams
Jake Soule
A Decade of Failed Architecture
Failed Architecture
The Far Right’s Obsession with Modern Architecture
Joe Mathieson
and
Tim Verlaan
From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model
Antonia Weiss
and
Tim Verlaan
Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht
Charlie Clemoes
Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener
Charlie Clemoes
Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”
Mark Minkjan
Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?
Charlie Clemoes
and
Alice Sweitzer
Ultraviolence in Representation: The Enduring Myth of the Thamesmead Estate
Inez de Coo
Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?
Xinyu Guan
The Tragedy of De Certeau’s Godlike Voyeur ft. Jamie Foxx
Charlie Clemoes
A Failure Upon Completion, Heidelberg’s ‘Concrete Ghetto’ Still Stands 45 Years On
Monika Motylinska
Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side
Mark Minkjan
The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political
Gary Davies
Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed
Sandra Guarda
‘Human, All Too Human’: A Critique on the Modulor
Federica Buzzi
Berlin Marzahn: Social Housing with Marquis Hawkes
Mark Minkjan
The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means
Asher Kohn
Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism
Soon-Tzu Speechley
The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley
Martina Motta
and
Alessandro Benetti
The Future of Work: Amsterdam’s Vijzelbank
Mike Emmerik
Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons
Margaret McCormick
How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals
Rachel Ling
Dredging the Dutch City, Part 2: Bijlmer
Charlie Clemoes
Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam
Charlie Clemoes
FA Film: Orphan
Rafe Copeland
and
Michiel van Iersel
Orphan City
René Boer
and
Michiel van Iersel
Richard Neutra’s Therapeutic Architecture
Maarten Overdijk
Did Suburbia Fail?
René Boer
,
Michiel van Iersel
and
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: The Lost Views of Space City
Mark Minkjan
San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture
Charlie Clemoes
Walking the Decline: Sheffield’s Collectivist Architecture
Charlie Clemoes
Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution
René Boer
Dawson’s Heights: South London Sublime
Charlie Clemoes
A Town is a Machine for Movement: Alpine Modernism
David Mountain
The Port Authority Bus Terminal: Myth, Mystery, Mess
Margaret McCormick
Concrete Experience: Bakema’s TrouwAmsterdam
René Boer
,
Michiel van Iersel
and
Mark Minkjan
Le Corbusier’s Vision for Fascist Addis Ababa
Rixt Woudstra
What is the Legacy of the Watergate Hotel?
Margaret McCormick
Photo Essay: The Ferrier Estate
Mark Minkjan
Insuring the City
Tim Verlaan
Tropical Babel
Celeste Olalquiaga
A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972
Ana Luisa Soares
and
Filipe Magalhães
A Memorial to the Highs and Lows of Social Housing
Tim Verlaan
The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism
Alexander Doerr
Once a Colonial Hotel, Now an Inhabited Ruin
Emma Hall
Paradise Lost: Birmingham’s Central Library and the Battle over Brutalism
John Mason
Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall
Mark Minkjan
Two Banks Shaping the African Skyline
René Boer
The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut
Daniel Springer
The Downfall of London’s Streets in the Sky
Mark Minkjan
and
Chris Bevan Lee
Who Determines the Future of the Past?
Alexander Doerr
Brussels’ Administrative Centre: An Uncontrollable Urban Tumor?
René Boer
Photo Essay: Rapla KEK, Estonia
Mark Minkjan
Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia
Amani Maihoub
In the Glasgow Media the Death of a High Rise is Marketed as Progress
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: Hiroshima’s Motomachi
Mark Minkjan
There’s a Generation Shift Occurring in Our Assessment of Modernist Architecture
Failed Architecture
Saviour or Parasite?
Anneke Bokern
A City Formerly Known as Sadness – Tin Shui Wai
Mika Savela
Is Failure Central to the Architectural Profession?
Gary Davies
Why L.A. is Important
Katya Tylevich
Bijlmer: a Reputation Blown to Smithereens?
Tim Verlaan
Documenting the Myths of Modernism
Daryl Mulvihill
La Maison Tropicale: From Failure in Niamey to Masterpiece in NYC
Isabella Rossen
FA Workshop: Sofia’s National Palace of Culture
Failed Architecture
School’s Out: A Modernist School Building Has to Go
Mark Minkjan
Back to the Future in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer Estate
Tim Verlaan
Kai van Hasselt Responds to Owen Hatherley
Failed Architecture
An Artist’s Impression: Larissa Fassler on Berlin’s Kottbusser Tor
Mark Minkjan
Nottingham: ‘Early Martyr of Highway Engineering’
Mark Minkjan
Owen Hatherley in Defense of Post-War Planning
Mark Minkjan
FA Workshop: Rotterdam’s Zalmhaven
buurmen
Excavating the Future in Cardross, Scotland
Mark Minkjan
Masterplan for the City of Skopje
Michiel van Iersel
Moscow’s Narkomfin Building
Michiel van Iersel
The Downfall of British Modernist Architecture
Tim Verlaan
Sanzhi UFO Houses, Taiwan
Michiel van Iersel
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