All articles by Otto Saumarez Smith
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ReviewBuilding Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: An architectural journey
The Cambridge college celebrates half a century of modernism
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ReviewBertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
A new book shows how Bertrand Goldberg brought Bauhaus sensibilities to his work in Chicago
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ReviewBasil Spence: Buildings and Projects
The modernist architect gained a reputation for balancing the traditional with the avant-garde
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ReviewArchitecture in Uniform: Designing & Building for the Second World War
The story of architects in the second world war has some surprising twists
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ReviewHow to build an argument
Edward Glaeser’s eulogy of city life looks set to become a cornerstone of debate, says Otto Saumarez Smith
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ReviewUtopia London
A documentary on London County Council’s post-war legacy celebrates a revolutionary zeal unknown today
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ReviewBlock magazine launched
This new architecture magazine’s first issue speaks for a growing culture of austerity chic.
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ReviewThe Surreal House exhibition
The Barbican Art Gallery’s attempt to examine the influence of surrealism on architecture proves monotonal and lacking in confidence
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ReviewGraphic Masterpieces of Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov: the Collection of Dmitry Chernikhov
A new three-volume set reveals how Chernikhov’s architectural fantasies helped him to rise above totalitarianism
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ReviewChronicles of Nairnia
Jonathan Meades entertaining talk on Ian Nairn failed to do justice to the legendary architecture critic
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ReviewHow Muschamp put the spirit in Manhattan
New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp’s legacy is a crop of new buildings rather than his journalism
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ReviewLiterature on the domestic interior
Stefan Muthesius’s new book, The Poetic Home, lacks a broader cultural reference of 19th century interiors
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ReviewBlue plaque book a fitting tribute to the scheme
Emily Cole’s Lived In London reveals the stories behind the houses