Architecture

Renzo Piano’s new Whitney Museum

Design, architecture and optimism in postcolonial Africa

Shrinking workspaces and reclining labour

An interview with Beatriz Colomina

Ecological innovation in Chinese architecture

Vincenzo Latronico visits a utopian community in rural Chile, which is still thriving after over 40 years

A Tetris stack on the bank of the Kura River

Conversations, buildings, books and films

Time-travelling with Pablo Bronstein

With the publication of his recent five-volume catalogue raisonnée, how does architect Peter Zumthor convey a lifetime’s body of work?

Africa’s first mega-museum to open in Cape Town

Architecture, whimsy and the Gwangju Biennale

‘MoMA is simply a fact of life, an epiphenomenon of a larger economic and social miscarriage reflected too in the glitzy towers that ring the museum’

The legacy of one of Brazil's greatest architects

The underground architecture of Harry Weese

The evolution of ‘performance architecture’

For 20 years, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has been documenting icons of Modernist architecture

Inevitably, some critic or other, whether writing about Venice’s art or architecture biennales, ‘reveals’ the enterprise’s imperial trappings. Among reading I took for the journey to this year’s Architecture Biennale was the September–October 1990 edition of artscribe. For weeks I had meant to read an interview it contained with Derek Jarman but, coincidently, the issue also featured a review of that year’s Biennale by Jan Avgikos titled ‘The Dangers of Tourism’. What had I let myself in for?

A letter to the visionary architect Yona Friedman

Interventions in Bucharest's history of state bureaucracy and brutalist architecture