It is a century since Vers une architecture was published […]

Art today is an enigma, more a question and a collection of uncertainties. For a building to succeed, the requirements must be stated with clarity. Little wonder then that Sydney Modern failed to find a solution, its mission never having been properly stated. The result, as Paul Keating sneered, is a 'special events complex masquerading as an art gallery'

For all her book’s impressive monumentality and thoroughness, Davina Jackson never addresses the question posed by its title, 'Australian Architecture'. Is architecture in Australia genuinely 'Australian' or is, at best, little more than a skilled pastiche of the foreign and familiar executed by imitators who depend on the ideas of others?

Sculpture is not normally the stuff from which acrimonious public […]

Freedom for one group can mean the enslavement of another, which was as true in ancient Greece as it is today in America. Destroying statues of Robert E. Lee or the Bristol slaver Edward Colston may be momentarily gratifying, but it does not alter the past one bit and, in addition, carries the echoing sound of freedom betrayed

On January 25, 2019, the Swedish sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg warned […]

Utzon's drive to unify architecture with landscape saw him produce what amounts to strong sculpture, the result of which is a unity we call 'a monument'. Thus was he able not merely to reject the overwhelming dullness and banality of global industrial architecture, but to vanquish it

Architects no longer draw but do everything on laptops. They no longer know the sensual touch of a graphite extension of their fingers on white paper. The mechanical buildings that result amply demonstrate the qualitative difference in values between them and Hardy

Urban Peasant: A Haphazard Chronicle by Feiko Bouman Austin Macauley, […]