Architecture

Colonial Baroque

Empire of Domes

TLS review on the English Colonial Baroque

Lokko

Truth to Power – on a Budget

Lesley Loko’s Venice Biennale 2023

Leeds Pool

Back-to-Backs

Leeds’ Unique Housing Legacy

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Apollo on Monumental Lies

“A knowledgeable and thought-provoking intervention.”

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Charles III: Misguided at best

The king’s love of the traditional has ideological impacts

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Dystopia on Trial

On the death of Alice Coleman

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“Nine brilliant and well-informed chapters”

Emma Dent Coad MP on Monumental Lies

Dezeen Beauty Myth

Think Tanks and Beauty Myth

How Right think tanks influence the beauty debate

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Dutch Courage

Utrecht Paradise not a parking lot

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London’s Problem Monuments

The contestation of the capital’s memorial landscape

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Lizzy Line Opens

The Long awaited verdict

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Is Putin Targeting Culture?

Ethics of Cultural Protection

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Why Monuments Matter

An introduction to Monumental Lies

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Western Arrogance on Parade

Robert’s contribution to David Chipperfield’s guest edit

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Object Lessons

Herzog & De Meuron’s RCA building

Tintagel

Bridge Across Time

English Heritage’s new span to Tintagel

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Greenwich Design District

The Little District that Could

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Monumental Lies

Robert’s recent book Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past is proving a critical success. The book examines the politicisation of the historic environment and reminds us why material evidence matters so much. It has been a book of the year in the Financial Times, the Art Newspaper and elsewhere. Robert is undertaking a…

Forensic

Forensic Architecture

Uncovering Architecture Crimes. Forensic Architecture

Yves

All about Yves

YSL in Marrakech. All about Yves

Pawson Life House

Pawson in Wales

John Pawson’s holiday home. Welsh Wizardry

Frida

Frida Escobedo

The Mexican’s Serpentine Pavilion

Jamie Fobert

Jamie Fobert

An architect in the cultural moment

Gobeklitepe

Gobelki Tepe

The world’s oldest temple. Did architecture begin here?

Tate

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Extending the canvas. Tate Modern’s towering extension.

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Eileen Gray

Can a house have a £MeToo moment? Restoring Eileen Gray’s pioneering house

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House for Essex

First look inside Grayson Perry and FAT’s fantasia.

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Weimarana

Title: Weimarana Subtext: Does the new Bauhaus museum have unintended bite?

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BIG profile

Denmark’s hottest architectural export profiled in the Evening Standard.

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Terror and the city

After the Paris attacks: Does modernism lead to terrorism.

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Caruso St John

Tuesday 29 September 2015 The practice profiled on the opening of the Newport St Gallery

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Heritage and human rights

Why it is vital to link the two. Op Ed for the Evening Standard.

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Is art worth a life?

The story behind the film. For The Times of London

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From Ruth Glass to Spike Lee

The origins of gentrification. For The Guardian

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Jan Gehl on cycling cities

Bevan interviews the pioneering urban designer for Mondial

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New Whitney

Piano’s new Whitney Museum is a dull affair, writes Bevan in the Architectural Review

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A tale of two towers

London’s towers compared for the launch of the Architects’ Journal Skyline campaign

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New intelligence

Architecture in the post parametric age for Intelligent Life

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Cruz y Ortiz’s remodelling of the Rijksmuseum has many qualities but has it solved the museum’s basic problems?

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All that is solid melts

The Louvre in Lens brings a shine to a former spoil tip in northern France

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Me London

Can hi-tech architecture create the perfect hotel bedroom?

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Gehry’s architecture business

Gehry’s business school in Sydney prioritises branding over architecture.

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National Gallery of Australia

The new Aboriginal wing makes a less than impressive entrance.

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Art in the office

Durbach Block’s creative HQ for Melbourne fashion maven and art patron Naomi Milgrom.

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Hepworth & Turner

Chipperfield’s architectural double act. The Hepworth is a fine follow up to Berlin’s Neues Museum.

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North Bank South Bank

Australia’s arts complexes under the spotlight.

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Lightbulb moments

Changing a light bulb is easier than building a green power plant but the new globes bring their own problems.

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WOHA

Singapore finest. WOHA profiled in The Australian’s Wish magazine.

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RMITvUTS

Sydney and Melbourne’s architectural cultures go head-to-head

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Zaha Hadid

The diva of decon’s first Australian interview.

Writing and research

Cultural Travel