All articles by Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewProperty: The myth that built the world
Rowan Moore’s new book helps put the political focus on the financial and ideoligical agendas that underpin much of the built environment, writes Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewReview | Isaac Julien: What Freedom Means to Me
Nicholas de Klerk finds an exhibition at Tate Britain is a reminder that the creation of buildings and their use over time is an essentially collective human endeavour
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ReviewAgainst Nature by Sam Jacob at Betts Project
A new exhibition explores the impact of the built environment on the natural world, writes Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewOn the Street by Edwin Heathcote
Nicholas de Klerk reviews a new book by Edwin Heathcote that explores the way in which we invest meaning into our public spaces through inhabiting them.
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ReviewReview | Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Nicholas de Klerk is stimulated and inspired by Ruth Lang’s book on creative reuse
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FeaturesReview: Slogans and Battlecries by Paul Shepheard
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book that offers another way into architecture
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FeaturesIs architecture returning to an age of civic mission?
Nicholas de Klerk finds cause for hope in Patrick Lynch’s latest book, Civic Ground
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FeaturesReview: Disappear Here by Sam Jacob
Nicholas de Klerk is drawn into the RIBA’s latest exhibition on perspective
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FeaturesPortmania redux: The atrium king's crown slips
Architect John Portman, who died in December, had a dazzling reputation - constructed largely by himself
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ReviewCommunal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society
Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewReview: Building with History
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book which critiques Foster Partners’ work in the context of historic structures
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ReviewBook Club Review: The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
It might be history, but this book can be read as a blueprint for architects working today, writes Nicholas de Klerk
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ReviewBook Club Review: Lincoln Center Inside Out, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Nicholas de Klerk looks at a book that is as large and as heavy as the building it describes