Paul McGrath
OpinionThe election for RIBA president is a waste of everyone's time
What we really need is a referendum, argues Paul McGrath
OpinionAldo Rossi the quiet revolutionary
Paul McGrath marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Aldo Rossi’s groundbreaking work
InspirationsBook review and competition: 50 Architects 50 Buildings - The buildings that inspire architects
BD’s long-running Architects’ Inspirations series is one of the magazine’s best-loved features. Now the twentieth-century buildings have been brought together for the first time in a new book. Paul McGrath takes a look.
ReviewBook Club review: Byker
This partisan book charts the mixed fortunes of Erskine’s seminal housing estate
OpinionWhy you need to go to an elite university to win the Stirling Prize
Where architects study is a depressingly good predictor of whether they’ll succeed, argues Paul McGrath
ReviewBook Club review: Melancholy and Architecture - On Aldo Rossi
This scholarly book breaks the recent silence on an important architect who was overlooked by Britain
ReviewReview: Architecture gallery, RA Summer Exhibition
Ian Ritchie’s curation explores the relationship between buildings and their evolving landscapes, finds Paul McGrath
OpinionWho's driving innovation in housing?
It’s crazy that the car industry offers more choice than housebuilders, says Paul McGrath
OpinionEthical architecture is no simple matter
The right course of action is a matter for the individual, says Paul McGrath
ReviewThe design review is dead. Long live Place reviews
Can the proactive planning system envisaged by the Farrell Review really work? Paul McGrath listened in at the NLA’s half-day debate
FeaturesHoney, I shrunk the flats
Paul McGrath is intrigued by one (very) small house builder with deep Pockets
OpinionWhy space standards are a bad thing for the housing crisis
Delivering better homes requires a subtler approach than the blunt instrument advocated by the RIBA, argues Paul McGrath
ReviewHow they did it back then
Visitors to the new Lasdun exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians will envy the relationship between client and architect, says Paul McGrath
ReviewTurning up the volume on Louis Kahn's legacy
Paul McGrath reviews a new exhibition at the Design Museum
OpinionReview: Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting
This sublime National Gallery exhibition should encourage other curators to explore the role of architecture in Renaissance art, argues Paul McGrath
ReviewBook Club review: The Wrong House – The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Architecture becomes a metaphor for the human psyche in Hitchcock’s films, says Paul McGrath