Architecture, Design & Culture since 2004

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‘As’ not ‘Of’. On Fala Atelier

Monuments After Conspiracy. The Many Statues of Liberty, Diana, Lizards, Illuminati and Architecture

The Cave of the Digital

Nothing Will Be Beautiful Till Everything Is Beautiful

Plutarch Goes to MIPIM

He Moves in Space with Minimum Waste and Maximum Joy: On Passports

Fake Farms and the Slippery Idea of Brexit

Copies, Fakes, Knock-offs

Toys as Worlds

Citi-Metrics

History, Reconstruction, Fiction, Frozen Yogurt

Dream Homes / Haunted Houses

Flip Flops as Protest

Objects as Language

Brutalist Etsyfication

Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza

IP and the Atrophication of Design

Dezeen / Photoshopped Incontinance

Unboxing

A Postmodern Revival, huh?

Put the needle on the record. Architecture / Memory / Material

Sam Jacob on Tom Karen, the designer of the Raleigh Chopper

Exhibiting Architecture

Turbine Hall

Where do we draw the line?

From Commons to Ruins

Sam Jacob on architecture and representation at the Soane Museum

Plumbing the Depths

The Raw Kernel of Man: 10,000 BC

Sam Jacob on the changing nature of power dressing

A quacking success

To what extent do our perceptions about individual disciplines shape what those disciplines produce?

How culture (and the odd retired military type) shapes our bodies

Corporate HQs tell us all we need to know about 21st-century culture

Objects make the man

A quick interpretation of Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn

Piccadilly Circus

Fisher Price and Tiny Love

Domino’s Pizza 

Architecture on TV

Koolhaas Houselife

Sherlockopolis

49 Cities

Election 2010

Architecture as Horrorshow

Real and fake in China

Skycig

Detroit Motor Show

Monocle Shop

David Cameron’s face