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

Jonathan Ruffer’s daring philanthropic experiment hopes to bring a different kind of regeneration to the north-east

The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament

London is no longer a Victorian city constructed on a medieval street plan, but a collection of cheapskate towers and characterless streets

Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes

Charles Saumarez Smith says we should acknowledge the Nazi past of architect Philip Johnson, not erase him

Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies

Will traditional museums be replaced by modern “experiences”?

Charles Saumarez Smith believes the restoration of an historic factory in the Potteries can be a model for preserving our manufacturing past

Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past

Charles Saumarez Smith on the campaign to save the historic London foundry that produced both Big Ben and the Liberty Bell