Modernism

We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf

Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review

Artillery Row
Literature’s year zero

One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever

Features
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet

Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places

Studio
Architectural urbanicide

Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture

Artillery Row
Why don’t we care about twentieth century traditional buildings?

The demolition of M&S on Oxford Street is indicative of a wider attitude towards interwar architecture

Artillery Row
House of fun

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

On Architecture
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs

This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education

Books
Architectural historian against the world

John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism

Books
Modernist architecture melts our brains

Findings from lockdown suggest environments lacking the complexity of life may pose a threat to humanity

Artillery Row
Still making dystopia

What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?

Books