All articles by Joanna Day
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OpinionLe Corbusier said colour was as powerful as the plan and section. So why is it so often an afterthought?
One of the myths of modernism is that it is only concerned with the white cube. Today’s architects would do well to pay more attention to colour, writes Joanna Day
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ReviewWhat does architecture mean in places like Syria and the Calais Jungle?
Joanna Day is impressed by the Architecture Foundation’s refugee festival
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FeaturesPolicymakers could do with a dose of architects' creativity
Joanna Day chews over some of the ideas for London’s mis-used spaces that surfaced through a Royal Academy competition
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ReviewReview: The World of Charles and Ray Eames
The Barbican’s visually stimulating show is full of surprises, finds Joanna Day
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ReviewContemplating the bother of suburbia
Generations of planners and architects have tried to ‘solve’ the suburbs. They’d have been better off enlisting the locals, the Architecture Foundation’s Doughnut festival heard
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ReviewWhen architects only tell one side of the story
Are architects complicit in creating narratives that ultimately serve to line developers’ pockets? Joanna Day was at an Architecture Foundation debate on the subject
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ReviewLearning from the Smithsons
Social housing design is back on the agenda but there are no stock answers. Joanna Day joins the conversation at an exhibition by Karakusevic Carson Architects
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ReviewJan Kaplicky and the art of drawing
Richard Rogers, Amanda Levete and David Nixon recall the Future Systems founder at the launch of a new book of his drawings
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ReviewThe impossibility of rejecting history
Bernard Tschumi recalls his father, modernist architect Jean Tschumi
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ReviewSpeaking buildings into existence
Peter Zumthor, John Pawson and Charles Holland’s presentation styles resemble their architecture, finds Joanna Day
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ReviewSurviving the century
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy celebrating buildings - loved, loathed and threatened - from the last 100 years deserves a wider audience, says Joanna Day
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ReviewBook Club review: Space for Architecture
Joanna Day reviews a new book by the Gold Medal winners and multiple Stirling Prize finalists
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OpinionMaterial evidence
The first of the Royal Academy’s Meaning in Materials series took the audience from specification guides to the moon and back, writes Joanna Day