All articles by Paul McGrath
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OpinionThe election for RIBA president is a waste of everyone's time
What we really need is a referendum, argues Paul McGrath
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OpinionAldo Rossi the quiet revolutionary
Paul McGrath marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Aldo Rossi’s groundbreaking work
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InspirationsBook review and competition: 50 Architects 50 Buildings - The buildings that inspire architects
BD’s long-running Architects’ Inspirations series is one of the magazine’s best-loved features. Now the twentieth-century buildings have been brought together for the first time in a new book. Paul McGrath takes a look.
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ReviewBook Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
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OpinionWhy you need to go to an elite university to win the Stirling Prize
Where architects study is a depressingly good predictor of whether they’ll succeed, argues Paul McGrath
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ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
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ReviewReview: Architecture gallery, RA Summer Exhibition
Ian Ritchie’s curation explores the relationship between buildings and their evolving landscapes, finds Paul McGrath
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OpinionWho's driving innovation in housing?
It’s crazy that the car industry offers more choice than housebuilders, says Paul McGrath
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OpinionEthical architecture is no simple matter
The right course of action is a matter for the individual, says Paul McGrath
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ReviewThe design review is dead. Long live Place reviews
Can the proactive planning system envisaged by the Farrell Review really work? Paul McGrath listened in at the NLA’s half-day debate
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FeaturesHoney, I shrunk the flats
Paul McGrath is intrigued by one (very) small house builder with deep Pockets
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OpinionWhy space standards are a bad thing for the housing crisis
Delivering better homes requires a subtler approach than the blunt instrument advocated by the RIBA, argues Paul McGrath
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ReviewTowards a new brutalism
Paul McGrath reviews Jonathan Meades’ Barbican discussion on brutalism
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ReviewHow they did it back then
Visitors to the new Lasdun exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians will envy the relationship between client and architect, says Paul McGrath
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ReviewTurning up the volume on Louis Kahn's legacy
Paul McGrath reviews a new exhibition at the Design Museum
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OpinionReview: Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting
This sublime National Gallery exhibition should encourage other curators to explore the role of architecture in Renaissance art, argues Paul McGrath
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ReviewBook Club review: The Wrong House – The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Architecture becomes a metaphor for the human psyche in Hitchcock’s films, says Paul McGrath