Saul Metzstein
ReviewBuilding After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture & the Memory of the Holocaust
A search for a definition of post-Holocaust Jewish architecture draws contradictory conclusions
ReviewArchitecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970
Thomas S Hines’s huge volume examines LA through the architects that created it, with special focus on Schindler and Neutra
ReviewFraming the future: film and architecture
Saul Metzstein examines how film uses present-day architecture to portray the future
ReviewChannel 4’s Home Show has a new kind of hero
Channel 4’s post-property boom domestic architectural show unleashes architectural superman George Clarke
OpinionWhen the fall guy is a very tall guy
As soon as a crime’s gone down, the TV cameras turn on an innocent tower block...
OpinionWhat we can learn from Apple’s recipe
We’ll all happily adapt our behaviour for a portable gadget. Why not for buildings too?
OpinionHi-tech by name, inefficient by nature
The Terminal 5 meltdown adds to evidence that hi-tech is not an appropriate style for airports
OpinionWhy Robin Hood needn’t keel over
History shows that all Robin Hood Gardens needs is the will to make work
OpinionStop and think before you hit the roof
Building on that wasted space at the top of the building sounds good... but is it?
OpinionWhy not try some blue sky thinking?
Sick of all those meaningless clichés? Let’s ban them until they are used properly again
OpinionThis is the plan: every man for himself
When you get up close to it, the planning process is revealed as a chaotic, counter-productive sham
OpinionDid I see you on the movies last night?
Why do films about architects so rarely make their celluloid representations ring true to life?
OpinionBuildings are not just a pretty face
Architecture is about more than what a building looks like. Has anyone told our heritage bodies?
OpinionLast night’s TV: the Ignorance Factor
Germaine Greer’s housing ‘solution’ for Cambridge just displays her ignorance. Has she no shame?
OpinionLeft in the cold by cult of the engineer
The fad of relying on an engineer to make an illogical design work devalues the architect’s role
OpinionWe can learn from Victorian values
Glasgow’s architectural unity transcends style. So why don’t today’s designers get it?
OpinionTime for the barcodists to check out
The randomly spaced facade is the architectural cliche of the moment
ReviewSaul Metzstein: Kubrick and me
I trained as an architect and am now a film director, but I have never felt any confusion between the two disciplines.