Oriana Fernandez
OpinionIf 2025 was the year of architecture’s AI awakening, 2026 must be the year when we map out the way ahead
As architecture grapples with the transformative potential and undoubted tensions of artificial intelligence, Oriana Fernandez considers how AI has become the industry’s next big thing and examines how three leading practices are following different paths down AI’s “rabbit hole”
FeaturesHugh Strange’s choreography of construction
Hugh Strange’s striking Hastings House has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Stirling Prize. Earlier this year Oriana Fernandez went to the Barbican to hear him set out his construction-centred approach and the balance he seeks between prefabrication, craft and site conditions
FeaturesQuestioning everything: Gort Scott’s living architecture
Oriana Fernandez explores how Gort Scott’s eclectic practice embraces uncertainty, using architecture to ask difficult questions
FeaturesBuilding faith – Britain’s mosque architecture as cultural resistance
Oriana Fernandez reflects on the ideas in Shahed Saleem’s new book, The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque
Review‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story
Oriana Fernandez reviews Stardust, a film that reveals the human story behind Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s groundbreaking partnership
ReviewSaint, state and stone: the politics of preserving Old Goa’s Basilica de Bom Jesus
Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar’s new book examines how colonial power shaped the visual and political representation of Goa’s Basilica of Bom Jesus, revealing the role of photography in framing its legacy. Oriana Fernandez explores how the study sheds new light on the basilica’s evolving cultural identity and the ongoing debates over ...
ReviewFrom the Mauryas to the Mughals: ‘A meticulously curated window into the architectural styles of ancient India’
Oriana Fernandez welcomes a new book tracing the diverse architectural styles of the Indian subcontinent