Briefing – Page 26
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FeaturesGoodbye brutalism… Hello post-modernism…
Stop writing that book on brutalism: it’s so last year. Time to get ready to love all those po-mo buildings you used to hate, says Tom Ravenscroft
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AnalysisCould the return of the clerk of works improve build quality?
Concerns about building quality and safety, especially in the wake of Grenfell, have led to calls for a more co-ordinated approach to accountability. Could the clerk of works help?
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FeaturesThe complicated truth behind a regeneration success story
Dalston’s Gillett Square is a well-used and vibrant public space. But that’s only half the picture, David Rudlin finds
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FeaturesWhat Britain could learn from Europe about public spaces and urbanism
If we are serious about creating good places we must stop building gated communities - whether horizontal or vertical, argues the author of a new book
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FeaturesA hundred years of housing design
An Englishman’s home might be his castle but it can also be a futuristic statement or a cutting-edge experiment
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FeaturesWhat makes post-modernism?
Appropriately enough, post-modernism means different things in different places. Elain Harwood explains how she charted its history for a new book
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FeaturesPlanners can't protect our high streets - so architects and their clients must
The death of the high street has been widely predicted but after interviewing hundreds of people, We Made That founder Holly Lewis is convinced they are an essential part of the city’s ecology
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AnalysisWhat will Stirk and Harbour do without Rogers?
It’s 10 years since Richard Rogers shared naming rights to his practice with two very different characters. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks the questions everyone’s thinking
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FeaturesGallery: The 6 most interesting RSHP projects
The Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners a decade ago this month. Ike Ijeh assesses the back catalogue
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FeaturesHow China transformed its cities from environmental disasters – and what the west can learn
As the Chinese Communist Party Congress opens in Beijing, Austin Williams assesses the remarkable rise of the nation’s ‘eco-cities’
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FeaturesWhat architects can learn from Camden's heyday
Under Sydney Cook, the borough built some of the best housing in Britain. Mark Swenarton, author of a new book on Cook’s Camden, assesses what we should emulate and what we should not
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FeaturesCan a history of architecture ever be useful?
How on earth do you go about compiling a comprehensive and objective assessment of the canon, asks Colin Davies - who has just written a magnum opus on the history of modern architecture
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FeaturesWhy North West Cambridge is a model for building on the green belt
This £1bn development is Cambridge university’s answer to a critical housing shortage for its students and staff. But instead of getting the private sector to build for it, the university has taken on the role of developer itself
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FeaturesWhy learning to build like our ancestors is essential for the survival of the planet
From earthquake-defying Himalayan skyscrapers to the accidental discovery of hemp’s air-conditioning properties, a new book combs the planet for vernacular building techniques
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FeaturesHow to breathe life into a town like Grimsby
Entrepreneur and developer Tom Shutes outlines a very different approach to regeneration which he is trialling in the Humber fishing port
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FeaturesFallen icons: Why we really should look back in anger
As the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens looms, Twentieth Century Society director Catherine Croft runs through the campaign group’s new “lost modern” list of the top 10 English buildings from the past 90 years that ought to have been saved
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FeaturesWhat's so bad about buildings crumbling away?
In this extract from her provocative book, Caitlin DeSilvey challenges the received wisdom that heritage must always be conserved
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FeaturesThe bridges every architect should know
Marcus Binney leads a tour of the world’s most inspiring crossings
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AnalysisBarbour ABI's July market review is out now
Barbour ABI’s Economic Construction Market Review for July is now available to download
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OpinionWe love predicting the future but we've lost the ambition to plan for it
At a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Milton Keynes, David Rudlin finds the future is not what it used to be