All articles by Saul Metzstein
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ReviewBuilding After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture & the Memory of the Holocaust
A search for a definition of post-Holocaust Jewish architecture draws contradictory conclusions
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ReviewArchitecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970
Thomas S Hines’s huge volume examines LA through the architects that created it, with special focus on Schindler and Neutra
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ReviewFraming the future: film and architecture
Saul Metzstein examines how film uses present-day architecture to portray the future
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ReviewChannel 4’s Home Show has a new kind of hero
Channel 4’s post-property boom domestic architectural show unleashes architectural superman George Clarke
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OpinionWhen the fall guy is a very tall guy
As soon as a crime’s gone down, the TV cameras turn on an innocent tower block...
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OpinionWhat we can learn from Apple’s recipe
We’ll all happily adapt our behaviour for a portable gadget. Why not for buildings too?
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OpinionHi-tech by name, inefficient by nature
The Terminal 5 meltdown adds to evidence that hi-tech is not an appropriate style for airports
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OpinionWhy Robin Hood needn’t keel over
History shows that all Robin Hood Gardens needs is the will to make work
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OpinionStop and think before you hit the roof
Building on that wasted space at the top of the building sounds good... but is it?
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OpinionWhy not try some blue sky thinking?
Sick of all those meaningless clichés? Let’s ban them until they are used properly again
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OpinionThis is the plan: every man for himself
When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham
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OpinionDid I see you on the movies last night?
Why do films about architects so rarely make their celluloid representations ring true to life?
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OpinionBuildings are not just a pretty face
Architecture is about more than what a building looks like. Has anyone told our heritage bodies?
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OpinionLast night’s TV: the Ignorance Factor
Germaine Greer’s housing ‘solution’ for Cambridge just displays her ignorance. Has she no shame?
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OpinionLeft in the cold by cult of the engineer
The fad of relying on an engineer to make an illogical design work devalues the architect’s role
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OpinionWe can learn from Victorian values
Glasgow’s architectural unity transcends style. So why don’t today’s designers get it?
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OpinionTime for the barcodists to check out
The randomly spaced facade is the architectural cliche of the moment
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ReviewSaul Metzstein: Kubrick and me
I trained as an architect and am now a film director, but I have never felt any confusion between the two disciplines.