Otto Saumarez Smith
ReviewBuilding Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: An architectural journey
The Cambridge college celebrates half a century of modernism
ReviewBertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
A new book shows how Bertrand Goldberg brought Bauhaus sensibilities to his work in Chicago
ReviewBasil Spence: Buildings and Projects
The modernist architect gained a reputation for balancing the traditional with the avant-garde
ReviewArchitecture in Uniform: Designing & Building for the Second World War
The story of architects in the second world war has some surprising twists
ReviewHow to build an argument
Edward Glaeser’s eulogy of city life looks set to become a cornerstone of debate, says Otto Saumarez Smith
ReviewUtopia London
A documentary on London County Council’s post-war legacy celebrates a revolutionary zeal unknown today
ReviewBlock magazine launched
This new architecture magazine’s first issue speaks for a growing culture of austerity chic.
ReviewThe Surreal House exhibition
The Barbican Art Gallery’s attempt to examine the influence of surrealism on architecture proves monotonal and lacking in confidence
ReviewGraphic Masterpieces of Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov: the Collection of Dmitry Chernikhov
A new three-volume set reveals how Chernikhov’s architectural fantasies helped him to rise above totalitarianism
ReviewChronicles of Nairnia
Jonathan Meades entertaining talk on Ian Nairn failed to do justice to the legendary architecture critic
ReviewHow Muschamp put the spirit in Manhattan
New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp’s legacy is a crop of new buildings rather than his journalism
ReviewLiterature on the domestic interior
Stefan Muthesius’s new book, The Poetic Home, lacks a broader cultural reference of 19th century interiors
ReviewBlue plaque book a fitting tribute to the scheme
Emily Cole’s Lived In London reveals the stories behind the houses