Charles Saumarez Smith

Charles Saumarez Smith was Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts and is now chairman of the Royal Drawing School. @CSaumarezSmith

The institute used to feel intellectually introverted

Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism

The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses

G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone

Maverick John Harris embarked on the closest Britain has ever got to an architecture museum

Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars

A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West

Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?

The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved