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ReviewBook review: Palace of the Ether – Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC 1922-32
Elizabeth Darling has produced a definitive account of the early years of the BBC and George Val Myer’s “monument to the invisible” in which it was based, writes Jon Wright
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ReviewBook review: Where We Live, by Jonathan Glancey
The UK has a rich and eclectic history for the provision of mass housing, but a new book by the former Guardian architect and design editor suggests the reliance on private volume housebuilders has been problematic for a number of reasons, Daniel Stilwell writes
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ReviewBook review – Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon
A new book celebrates Royal Festival Hall’s 75th anniversary, revealing the radical vision behind Britain’s most enduring post-war public building
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ReviewReview - Roaming Britain: Gypsy and Traveller Homes at RIBA North
A new exhibition challenges architects to look beyond fixed ideas of home and understand the spatial needs of nomadic communities, writes Sarah Simpkin
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ReviewBook review: Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture, by Irénée Scalbert
The depth of Scalbert’s architectural knowledge and his minimalistic style of prose are evident throughout this sensitive, resonant collection of writing, writes Ben Tosland
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ReviewReview: Brutal Scotland – ‘These buildings were never just about concrete and form’
Brutal Scotland is a book and exhibition by photographer Simon Phipps documenting 160 buildings across the country. The exhibition is at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow until 16 May, Bobby Jewell writes
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ReviewBook review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
This book reframes the housing crisis not simply as a matter of numbers but as a question of how and where we build within already dense urban environments, Félicie Krikler writes
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ReviewCaruso St John's Collected Works, Volume 3: ‘The book’s beauty is matched by its heft’
There are few architectural books that are hard to put down, but this is certainly one of them, writes Gavin Hale-Brown
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ReviewBook review: Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones
Timothy Brittain-Catlin reviews an accessible and lively compendium that represents a wonderful tribute to a much-missed mentor
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ReviewThe long way home: why common parts still matter
An inspiring exhibition underway in Paris analyses the shared transitional spaces in Parisian housing and reminds us of their importance as a place where social life is quietly negotiated, Félicie Krikler writes
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ReviewReview: The Weight of Being at Two Temple Place
The Weight of Being: Vulnerability, Resilience and Mental Health in Art runs until 19 April and brings together a diverse selection of works by contemporary and 20th-century British artists to explore some of the ways in which mental health shapes artistic expression, Sarah Simpkin reports
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ReviewWhy building inclusion is a fundamental part of the architect’s mission
As construction professionals, it is our responsibility to create a built environment in which everyone has a stake, to deliver long-term value that may come at some short-term cost, writes Pete Smith
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ReviewBook review – Learning from the Local: Designing responsively for people, climate and culture
Nicholas de Klerk discusses a new book by Piers Taylor that invites us to re-examine our own principles and intentions with regards to where and how we practise
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ReviewBook review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Ken Worpole explores Dinah Bornat’s call for child-friendly neighbourhoods and asks why the UK continues to fall behind its European peers in providing them
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ReviewBook review: The English House by Dan Cruickshank
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank’s new book charts 200 years of British domestic architecture through eight carefully selected properties, from Georgian townhouses to the first modern house, exploring how social history, economics and cultural taste have shaped the way we live
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ReviewBook review: Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022
Published to coincide with the practice’s 30th anniversary, this is a study of 12 projects built in London over the course of a decade critically assessed by architects and critics, plus an in-depth interview and essays by Simon Henley highlighting the critical thinking at the heart of the practice’s work. ...
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ReviewKing Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
Once dismissed as reactionary, many of the principles King Charles III has long advocated – including community, craftsmanship and sustainability – are now mainstream, writes Alasdair Travers in his review of Clive Aslet’s new book
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ReviewReview: Cosmos, Memory, Scale at the SOAS Gallery
Ben Flatman examines how architect and artist Karl Singporewala weaves architecture, heritage and personal memory into a rich body of work shaped by Parsi diasporic experience
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ReviewBritish Interior Design Since 1925
Leo Wood reviews an authoritative account of how the evolution of taste, technology and commerce has defined the modern interior
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ReviewConcéntrico and the art of everyday urban invention
Sarah Simpkin reviews Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory, a new book celebrating a decade of inventive public-space interventions that have transformed the Spanish city of Logroño into a living laboratory for urban experimentation