Modernism
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet
Binet’s photographs find beauty in unexpected places
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
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
House of fun
The Cosmic House breaks through the orthodoxies of modernism with its game-playing, colour and ornament
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs
This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education
Architectural historian against the world
John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism
Modernist architecture melts our brains
Findings from lockdown suggest environments lacking the complexity of life may pose a threat to humanity
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
