All articles by Alan Powers
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ReviewSir Hugh Casson PRA – Making Friends
Hugh Casson’s personality overshadowed his architecture, which is overdue a reappraisal
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ReviewHow health and hygiene dominated inter-war modernist architecture
Paul Overy’s book explores the links between the inter-war modern movement and social preoccupations with health and hygiene, writes Alan Powers
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings
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Building StudyA Russian resurrection
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg
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ReviewWealth of the unknown
This book on the beaux arts movement reveals how much can be learnt from unnoticed Parisian gems.
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ReviewBeauty treatment
The latest in a long line of books on the arts and crafts movement looks impeccable, but brings little new illumination.
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ReviewSnappy Dresser
Modernist pioneer or Victorian master? Alan Powers lifts the lid on Christopher Dresser
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FeaturesCathedral culture
As all psychogeographers know, the most appealing features of urban landscape – the industrial wastelands, the unconscious anachronisms, the unreconstructed local distinctiveness – are the victims of regeneration and the heritage industry.