essay

From the Bottom and the Top

Powering Athens through collectivity and informal initiatives by Cristina Ampatzidou

photo essay

Nowhere Now Here

A photo essay by Yiorgis Yerolymbos

Essay

Back to the Garden

Athens and opportunities for new urban strategies by Aristide Antonas

Interview

Point Supreme

An interview by Ellie Stathaki

Essay

The Line Connects

An essay on drawing and architectural education by Wes Jones

Essay

Drawing Attention

Phineas Harper sketches out new narrative paths with pencil power

Essay

Gotham

Elvia Wilk on a city of shadows as architectural fiction

Interview

The (Not So) Fine Line

A conversation thread between Sophie Lovell and architecture cartoonist Klaus

essay

Space Packers

Zvi Hecker’s career-defining partnership with Eldar Sharon and Alfred Neumann by Rafi Segal

Interview

Essentially I am a Medieval Architect

An interview with Zvi Hecker by Vladimir Belogolovsky

viewpoint

The Technion Affair

Breaking and entering in the name of architectural integrity by Zvi Hecker

Photo Essay

Revisiting Yesterday’s Future

A photo essay by Gili Merin

Viewpoint

Wish You Were Here

Arna Mathiesen asks: Refinancing Iceland with tourism – but at what cost?

Photo Essay

Spaces Create Bodies, Bodies Create Space

An essay by Ólafur Elíasson

Focus

Icelandic Domestic

Focus on post-independence houses by George Kafka

Essay

The Harp That Sang

The saga of Reykjavík's Concert Hall by Sophie Lovell & Fiona Shipwright

Interview

A Little Bit of Order

Sophie Lovell talks to Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivisto Rune

Essay

Memory Palaces

Architecture for recollection in the age of forgetting by Fiona Shipwright

Interview

The Invisible Museum

Elvia Wilk talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about outing the archive

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Shumi Bose, Jack Self and Finn Williams

Interview

The Orientation of Hope

An interview with Charles Jencks, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres by Rob Wilson

Essay

The Great Beyond

Herbert Wright on architectures of the afterlife

Essay

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Arakawa and Gins' Reversible Destiny Lofts by Léopold Lambert

Essay

Protestant Death Ethic

Leon Berger’s Southampton Crematorium by Owen Hatherley

Interview

Hadid

An interview with the architect Zaha Hadid by Sophie Lovell

Essay

Fluid Freedom

Zaha Hadid’s Four Decades of Breaking the Box by Aaron Betsky

Viewpoint

A Planet in its Own Orbit

On being Zaha by Bernard Tschumi

Viewpoint

Calculated Constructs

Greg Lynn on the formulas generating success at ZHA

Essay

Machines of Loving Grace

The city as a distributed robot & the omnipresent intelligence of data networks

Essay

A Kind Of Magic

A conversation about losing control over our own technology

Interview

The Otherness of the Machine

Jan Willmann from ETH Zurich on robotics in architecture

Focus

Matter Design's

Best of commercial robotic fabrication innovation

Essay

A Brick in the Stomach

Max Borka on the home-loving Belgians

Essay

Catching the Curve

Eladio Dieste and the brick by Florencia Rodríguez

Focus

Trapped by History

The new genre of stylish salvage

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Wolf D. Prix

Essay

Communities of Consciousness

From Drop City to the digital by Fred Turner

Interview

On Cooperation

An interview with Richard Sennett by Rob Wilson

Photo Essay

A Natural Order

Photographer Lucas Foglia portrays outsider life in rural America

Essay

The Rule of Hours

James Marriott on Hans van der Laan's Abdij Sint Benedictusberg

Essay

Frei by Name, Frei by Nature

A life extraordinary by Irene Meissner

Essay

The Stuttgart Boys

Frei association: bionics, parametrics, morphogenics and more… by Sophie Lovell

Interview

Otto and the Open System

Georg Vrachliotis in conversation with Jean-Philippe Vassal

Found

When Frei met Bucky

A meeting of like minds

Essay

Manufactured Consent

Jonas Staal on propaganda and commerce at the 1937 and 1939 World’s Fairs

Essay

The Future is Here

Philosopher Mark Kingwell remembers the 1967 Montreal Expo

Essay

Progress and Harmony for Mankind

Crystal Bennes looks back at the optimism of Osaka Expo 70

Interview

Putting an End to the Vanity Fair

Exclusive interview with Jacques Herzog about the Expo 2015 masterplan

Viewpoint

Bread and Circuses

Iconic architecture in post-communist Poland

Photo Essay

Shipyard

Michał Szlaga's loving, melancholic portrait of Gdańsk

Viewpoint

We, the Citizens

The rise of the Polish urban movements

Focus

Studio Rygalik’s

Focus on Polish design

Interview

The Logical Path

Interview with the extraordinary Temple Grandin by Sophie Lovell

Photo Essay

Social Housing

Bird communes in the Kalahari photographed by Dillon Marsh

Case Study

Crabby Chic

Artist Aki Inomata's real estate for hermit crabs

Essay

Beastly Designs

Ned Dodington's barrier-free survey of zoo architecture and design

Interview

In the Twilight Hour

An Interview with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta

Essay

Night Walkers

Place-hacking nocturnal London

Photo Essay

The Night Watch

Photographer Joël Tettamanti

Focus

The Illuminati

uncube’s pick of enlightened façades

Essay

DIY Cities

Justin McGuirk on citizen agency and government accountability

Photo Essay

Got Wood?

Vintage DIY "cabin porn" from 1960

Focus

Best of the Makers

By Daniel Charny

Essay

Same, Same but Different

Self-help architecture in Sudan by Raul Pantaleo

Interview

The Lay of the Land

Interview with landscape architect Kate Cullity

Essay

Going Troppo

Troppo architects: creative pragmatism with a social agenda

Photo Essay

Never Never

A photographer's view of the Australian landscape

Essay

Terra Nullius

New perspectives on Indigenous architecture

Interview

No More Masters

Interview with Odile Decq

Essay

Buildings to Learn In, Buildings to Learn From

Visiting two recently designed architecture schools in Nantes and Tirana

Interview

License to Think

Interview with Eugenie deLariviere

Essay

Deschooling Society

Learning in the networked era

Interview

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

Interview with biomimicry expert, Ilaria Mazzoleni

Focus

Paola Antonelli

Best of Bio-design

Essay

The Bigger Picture

Bio-cities of tomorrow

Photo Essay

Bioplastic Fantastic

Johanna Schmeer's interactive, edible products

Manifesto

Everything is Architecture

Excerpts from Hans Hollein’s 1968 Manifesto

Essay

Hollein

Wilfried Kuehn and Marlies Wirth on Hollein's Legacy

Focus

Shape Shifter

Hollein’s Design Objects

Essay

A Piece of Cake

Hans Hollein’s Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main

Essay

Mexico City Buzz Blues

The best of cities, the worst of cities by Mario Ballesteros

Viewpoint

This Neurotic Tradition

The hardware and the software of the city by Michel Rojkind

Essay

Refashioning the Narrative

Emerging architecture and design practice by Mimi Zeiger

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Luby Springall and Julio Gaeta

Essay

Adriaport

Czechoslovakia's 1970s plan to build a tunnel to the sea

Case Study

Tropical Island

A Big Brandenburg Oasis

Interview

Holding Back the Waves

Climate engineer Matthias Schuler achieves active solutions through passive measures

Case Study

Stream Lines

Repurposed Dutch water defenses

Essay

The Hear and Now

Jonathan Bell in conversation with Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics

Essay

Aural Prosthesis

Lev Bratishenko on Arup’s Soundlab and the rise of virtual acoustics

Found

David Byrne

"Playing the Building"

Interview

His Master’s Voice

Interview with Edgar Wisniewski, Hans Scharoun's "silent" partner

ESSAY

Renegotiating the Urban Commons

We have to fight for the right to shared space

Interview

From Austerity to Audacity

Interview with Fran Tonkiss on the emerging urbanism of small acts

Interview

Reclaim the City!

Andrej Holm on social struggles in a neo-liberalising city

Essay

Architecture of the Civic Economy

Indy Johar's manifesto for soft power

Interview

New World, Old Metaphors

Interview with Ricardo Scofidio

Found

Galina Balashova

Space architect extraordinaire

Interview

Per Artem Ad Astra

Interview with Michael Najjar

Essay

Memories of the Moon Age

A Lunar love affair

Interview

Design, Decline and Dogma

Interview with museum director Matevž Čelik on the status quo of Slovenian design

Essay

Revolution without Patricide

Miha Dešman on what defines contemporary Slovenian architecture

Interview

Nobody Loves the Hitler Beetle

Interview with artist Jasmina Cibic on cultural identity and the politics of display

Found

Repeat Offenders

Vid Zabel and Katarina Čakš revisit Slovenia's homegrown Brutalism

Interview

What is "Afritecture"?

Andres Lepik discusses the manifold issues raised by his exhibition in Munich

Case Study

Red Location

Cultural Centre and Museum in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Interview

Continental Shift

A group discussion about how to reconnect architecture with Africa

Found

East Coast Critique

Dar es Salaam's ANZA Magazine

Interview

The Lightest Touch

Architect Greg Lynn believes the good outweighs the bad when it comes to carbon composites

Essay

Black to the Future

The charred-wood architecture of Terunobu Fujimori

Essay

Greased Lightning

How carbon fibre and precision engineering have taken the drag out of yacht racing

Essay

The Air that We Breathe

Has architecture lost its way en route to a post-carbon future?

Essay

When Infrastructures Stop

Essay by Stephen Graham

Interview

Centimeters, Kilometers, Escalators

Interview with Marcel Smets

Interview

Protein Streams

Interview with Carolyn Steel

Bookmarked

Bookmarked

Guest Reviewer: Charlotte Newman

Photo Essay

Outsized I

Curiosities, cash cows and carbuncles...

Essay

Small Town, Big Modernists

Trophy architecture in the Midwest

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Tatiana Bilbao

Essay

The Colossus of Rügen

Prora, the gigantic Nazi-built resort on the Baltic Sea

Viewpoint

In & Out Of Berlin 1

Francesca Ferguson, Bostjan Vuga

Interview

360° View

In the Schinkel Pavilion with Nina Pohl

Viewpoint

In & Out of Berlin 2

Mark Lee, Konstantin Grcic

Essay

This Could Have Been Berlin

The visionary architecture of Engelbert Kremser

Interview

Framed Views

Denise Scott Brown on the desert, Ed Ruscha, and the Pritzker Prize she never received

Case Study

Dubai Thriller

The world's largest fountain dances to Michael Jackson

Photo Essay

Pooling Around

Swimming through the history of New York City

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Beatrice Galillee

Case Study

Kanchanjunga!

Correa's innovative “vertical bungalow” living

Essay

Hornby Trains, Chinese Gardens and Architecture

Charles Correa reflects on his (locomotive) origins as an architect

Interview

A Usable Art

In conversation with Charles Correa

Essay

Mainland Shift

Charles Correa and the making of Navi Mumbai

Photo Essay

Out Of The Woods

The construction of timber tastes

Essay

Revenge Appreciation in Suburbia

The hidden presence of timber in the American home

Essay

Wood, Paper, Vodka...And Ice

Alexander Brodsky recasts traditional Russian materials

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Charles Holland

Interview

Every Image is a Construction

Kersten Geers on ambiguity in images and architecture – and avoiding photorealism

Interview

Behind the Façade

Ingrid von Kruse captures the personalities of starchitects

Photo Essay

Modern Ruins

Julia Schulz-Dornburg photographs Spain‘s unfinished buildings

Essay

The Full & The Empty

Economic crisis and the abandoned developments in Spain

Essay

Culture and the City

On Content and Form

Essay

Containers Without Content

The disastrous roll-out of the Bilbao Effect across Spain

Case Study

Beacon for Learning

Parque Biblioteca España

Essay

The Island of Happiness

The shadowy story of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Essay

Furka Pass

A closed hotel, nothing much to see – yet Jenny Holzer, Sean Connery, and Rem Koolhaas have all been here …

Interview

Strangely Familiar

Todd Saunders and the Architecture of Lonely Places

Essay

Revelations of atelier le balto

Cultivating beauty in the off-spaces of Berlin

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Gottfried Böhm

Interview

The Elastic City

Michael Maltzan about California Modernism, homelessness, and L.A. as a democratic city

Photo Booth

In the photo booth with...

Pedro Gadanho

Interview

An Ever-Moving Train

Rolf Fehlbaum and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec on their relationship.

Interview

A Room for Tea

Sevil Peach expounds upon human needs, good neighborhoods, and culturally-appropriate office design

Essay

Fighting Nature With Nature

Creating resilient urban environments against natural catastrophes

Found

Zombie Proof

Essay

Under Tomorrow's Sky

The speculative futures of Liam Young

Case Study

Escape to Space!

Essay

Costa Concrete

The high-rise vacation city of Benidorm

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster

Essay

Beirut’s Saint Joseph University

Youssef Tohme and 109 architects use concrete to raise questions

Revisited

A Brutalist Love Story

Boston City Hall

Essay

Constructing Architecture as Narrative Sculpture

A profile of Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Interview

Folding Emotion into Architecture

Manuelle Gautrand on origami architecture and built emotions

Photo Booth

In the Photo Booth with...

Bostjan Vuga

Essay

New Arcadians

Economic gloom sees young UK architects get creative with their practices

Photo Essay

Excavating the Common Ground

Our highlights from the two main exhibitions

Essay

Architecture observes itself

This biennale misses social and political topics – and voices from outside Europe

Interview

Stimulators and Moderators

Jury member Kristin Feireiss about the Golden Lion awards

Essay

Dark Side Club 2012

The dark side of debate

Interview

When the Building Comes as a Surprise

Barry Bergdoll speaks about travelling to Brno, Brasilia, and Bilbao

Photo Essay

Ruta del Peregrino

Iwan Baan's impressions of Mexico's most famous pilgrimage route

Essay

Enlightenment at Burning Man

A pilgrimage of participation

Viewpoint

I Know Where You Live

On stalking architecture – and architecture stalkers