Briefing – Page 22
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How can we design for young people when we don't consult them?
When she volunteered to be an architecture ambassador in a school, Stephanie Edwards learnt as much as the pupils
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Housing crisis. What housing crisis?
Roger Madelin on the politics behind one of the nation’s most intractable problems
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Reappraising Hassan Fathy, the forgotten modernist
Hassan Fathy was decades ahead of his time – but finally the Egyptian architect’s ideas as well as his techniques are attracting attention
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We need a radical shift in how we collaborate for the sake of the planet
We have the power to shift the built environment towards sustainable development. We just need to seize it
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Architects aren’t giving themselves credit for R&D
Your practice could be missing out on tens of thousands of pounds in tax relief, says Mark Tighe
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Is 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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Client design leadership is crucial to the success of our infrastructure
There is a design-shaped hole in the understanding of too many people leading infrastructure projects, says Petra Marko
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We’re protecting the wrong kind of views
It’s time to rethink the view protection system, argues Purcell’s Tom Brigden
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Interview: Lee Polisano on towers and ten years of PLP
As the 10th anniversary of PLP and the looming storm of Brexit approach, Lee Polisano looks into the future
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The country needs architects to get us out of the housing crisis - just as it did a century ago
100 years on, it’s time for a new Tudor Walters Report, says Mark Swenarton
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The making of Eric Parry's modern Livery Hall
The most recent of the City of London’s livery halls continues a grand tradition, finds Peter Murray
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Barbican at 50: Brutalism for the consumer age
From the Smithsons to the Garchey waste disposal systems, Charles Holland walks us through the estate’s history
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Why we need a RIBA student and graduate network
Architects are alone in not having a formal support structure for the profession’s younger members
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'The biggest single project since the pharaohs'
As the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day nears, Glyn Prysor tells the story of the architects who commemorated death on an unprecedented scale
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If the prime minister is serious about building sustainable communities, here's how
Everyone agrees we should be producing better housing. What we need now are some more built success stories
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Fred Scott: The double ecstasy of altering architecture
A decade after the designer’s seminal book, Peter Youthed argues he paved the way for the likes of David Chipperfield and Caruso St John
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Will driverless cars change our cities for better or worse?
Do electric private-hire driverless cars represent a huge opportunity to redesign our urban environment?
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Architects are problem solvers. We should be able to solve an issue like education
We must work harder to tackle the ‘architecture time-bomb’
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Architects have forgotten how to design for people
Step down from your ivory tower and design with your users’ wellbeing in mind, urges Ben Channon
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Anni Albers, the Bauhaus and the pliable plane
Pushed into weaving because she was a woman, Albers became fascinated by the medium’s architectural uses says the curator of the Tate’s retrospective