All articles by Ben Flatman – Page 32
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OpinionLearning from lockdown: Is 30 years of urban renaissance about to go into reverse?
Ben Flatman talks to Yolande Barnes about whether we are on the verge of a new era of urban depopulation, as predicted by Peter Hall 20 years ago
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OpinionThe fight to save Kolkata’s heritage is part of the wider struggle over India’s identity
It’s about much more than bricks and mortar, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionCan we burn our way out of the urban waste crisis?
Why one Kenyan architect thinks burning trash is the answer to east Africa’s waste crisis
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OpinionIt’s time the Stirling loosened up
How can you possibly assess a railway station against a private house, asks Ben Flatman
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OpinionThe Labour Party has a problem with private schools. Does architecture too?
Ben Flatman asks what we should conclude from the schools attended by Norman Foster and Amanda Levete
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OpinionHow long can architecture schools resist reform?
With traditional institutions slow to change, it may be that the future of architectural education doesn’t lie in the schools at all, says Ben Flatman
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OpinionArchitects must learn to lead in the climate crisis
It might already be time for the profession to focus less on sustainability and more on climate change adaptation, warns Ben Flatman
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OpinionThose vying to be PM must look beyond their party and engage with a country crying out for real change
Centralised control has infantilised us and eroded the built environment. It’s time to put the government into special measures
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OpinionIs it time to ban glass skyscrapers?
Ben Flatman asks why London’s masonry vernacular has been ignored by so many of its tall buildings
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OpinionDoes Britain need a Holocaust memorial?
Ben Flatman argues it’s time for the UK to face up to its own devastating history of hatred and prejudice
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OpinionBrexit is about English nationalism. It won’t be settled until we build a new English parliament, anywhere but London
Flailing politicians need to grasp the country’s need for a radically new constitutional and architectural settlement
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OpinionRough sleeping is a humanitarian crisis unfolding on Britain’s streets. Can architects help?
Ben Flatman looks at some of the ways the profession is making a difference
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OpinionCan Londoners take back control of their city’s out-of-control skyline?
The rush for the skies has been handled in a way that severely limits the chances of a coherent tall buildings strategy
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OpinionGeorge Saumarez Smith is wrong – classical London is nothing but a thin veneer
Wren and Nash had a go at imposing classical masterplans on London but they failed spectacularly, argues Ben Flatman
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OpinionOxford’s failure to teach architecture is a disaster for architects and the country
Britain’s leaders are educated at Oxford – where they never meet an architecture student, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionRebuild the Mack, but why stop there?
Mackintosh’s devastated art school is not the only significant building in Glasgow that should be rebuilt, argues Ben Flatman
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OpinionPost-modernism: It might be listed, but it’s not over
Po-mo spawned the era of post-truth but it also ushered in a freedom to explore ideas that we’re still enjoying today
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OpinionIt's 30 years since the Highbury Initiative - so why is Birmingham still making the same mistakes?
30 years after the Highbury Initiative, the city still struggles with the legacy of its post-war planning
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OpinionNavigating the legacies of colonialism in East Africa
The challenges of delivering new community facilities in rural Uganda are not limited to securing first-world funding
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OpinionColombo’s transformation: an architectural gem or just another Asian mega city?
Is Sri Lankan architect Geoffry Bawa’s legacy in danger of being lost asks Ben Flatman