Really hard to answer... I love Brutalism because concrete surfaces, in a bunch of decades, become really similars to old past architectures that today we consider archaeological or... Читать далее
“Tiny house” is an actual term for a very small house that stands on a trailer base. There are more and more of them all the time, they are very trendy.
The demographic of people who live... Читать далее
Firstly, these are very broad questions, so I’ll define some parameters, then I’ll outline a couple of scenarios and finally I’ll give you my opinion.
I’m going to assume when you ask... Читать далее
If you go back to the 1960s, if you wanted to make a machine do anything, you had to go to an air conditioned room, learn the machine’s language and encode it in very specific, very... Читать далее
My favourite modern building is Coventry Cathedral, which was designed by Basil Spence with the Arup Group as engineers, built by John Laing and finished in 1962.
It represents the... Читать далее
No, I don't think there is. Or, rather, there are number of different golden ages of British architecture.
The Georgian period is perhaps the most celebrated, because there is a... Читать далее
There are a number of possible reasons for that. In the post-war era there was a desire to rationalise everything. It was a reaction against everything from medieval street layouts to the... Читать далее
Let’s hear it for the car park.
Nobody takes much notice of car parks, do they? I don't always love them but they are essential things. They’re often done on a tiny budget, and they have... Читать далее
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics. Author of "The Transnational Capitalist Class" (2001) and "The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization" (2017).
Do architects participate in spreading the ideology of consumerism through the types of spaces and buildings they create?
This is a tricky question. Many architects do play an active role in spreading the culture-ideology of consumerism, some willingly and others unwillingly. More than most creative artists... Читать далее