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Mass Timber in the Age of Mass Extinction
Alexander Hadley
This Very Normal Dutch Architecture Firm Remains Responsible for Designing a Deportation Machine
René Boer
Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving
Giulia De Cunto
and
Francesco Pasta
NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital
Kevin Rogan
Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping
Charlie Clemoes
Is The Freeport Set to Become The Defining Architecture of Post-Brexit Britain?
Maria McLintock
and
Bex Liu
Digital Contact Tracing is The New “Smart” Frontier of Urban Surveillance
Kevin Rogan
The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call The Whole Thing Off?
Charlie Clemoes
Coming to Terms with a Growth-Free Future
Federica Buzzi
Architects Declare a Climate Emergency But Can They Avoid Real Estate’s Greenwashing Tendencies?
Miriam McGarry
Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing
Alexander Hadley
A Decade of Failed Architecture
Failed Architecture
The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible
Charlie Clemoes
99 Reasons to Support Independent Architecture Criticism in 2020
Failed Architecture
Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation
Darcy Gunning
“Degrowth is about redistribution by design, not by collapse”
Mark Minkjan
The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs
Matthew Stewart
Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge
Alice Sweitzer
and
Charlie Clemoes
Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable
Joshua McWhirter
Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need
Mark Minkjan
The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify
Matthew Stewart
Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities
Owen Vince
Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah
Failed Architecture
Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture
Joshua McWhirter
City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality
Joshua McWhirter
London Becomes Museum
George Kafka
A Conversation with Keller Easterling
Hettie O'Brien
Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures
Matthew Stewart
Failover Architectures: the Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry
aretaylor
How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities
Hettie O'Brien
Mallification: The Vengeful Return of the Mall in the 21st Century
Janno Martens
Gamespace Urbanism: City-Building Games and Radical Simulations
Federica Buzzi
Meet Our New Editors
Failed Architecture
A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary
Adam Tanaka
The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified
Matthew Stewart
Remote-Control Architecture: Norman Foster’s Rwandan Droneport
Killian Doherty
Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London
Charlie Clemoes
Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad
Owen Vince
What’s An Architecture Biennale Good For Anyway?
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
Instagramming Architecture
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space
Mark Minkjan
and
René Boer
What the City of the Future Looks Like If We Don’t Change Course
René Boer
and
Mark Minkjan
The Future of Work: Amsterdam’s Vijzelbank
Mike Emmerik
On Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza
René Boer
Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy
Mark Minkjan
and
René Boer
Neoliberal Shock Therapy: the Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans
Tilde Siglev
What this MVRDV Rendering Says About Architecture and the Media
Mark Minkjan
How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals
Rachel Ling
Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam
Charlie Clemoes
Orphan City
René Boer
and
Michiel van Iersel
8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture In 2016
René Boer
Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’
Mark Minkjan
Capital Cairo: A Regime of Graphics
Adham Selim
Did Suburbia Fail?
René Boer
,
Michiel van Iersel
and
Mark Minkjan
Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects
Jesse Honsa
Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam
Mark Minkjan
Belgrade Waterfront: An Investor’s Vision of National Significance
Ljubica Slavković
New York City’s Island of the Dead
Margaret McCormick
Photo Essay: Jing Jin City
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: Metropole
Mark Minkjan
Photo Essay: Utopia by the Plot
Mark Minkjan
and
Sonia Mangiapane
Photo Essay: Construction Sights
Mark Minkjan
Architecture as Disaster: Business as Usual
Eray Çaylı
Hungary’s Identity Crisis Fought in Concrete and Bronze
Cara Eckholm
Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright
Mark Minkjan
Cairo New Towns – From Desert Cities to Deserted Cities
Daniel Zwangsleitner
Madness and Method at St. Elizabeths
Margaret McCormick
ArchDaily and Architecture Criticism
Mark Minkjan
The Case: MoMA vs. Middle-Aged Men
Michiel van Iersel
San Francisco’s NEMA: Parvenu Luxury, Surrealistically Marketed
Martha Bridegam
Failed Architecture tracked changes at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale
René Boer
Privatized Publicness: Post-Communist Public Space in Bucharest
Liviu Teodorescu
UNStudio Tried Riding the Open Source Wave, but Failed
Paul van den Bergh
Is the Architectural Profession Still Relevant?
Mark Minkjan
The Story Behind Failure: Copenhagen’s Business District Ørestad
Lea Olsson
and
Jan Loerakker
The Mysterious Adventures of the Boy in the Yellow Cap
Daryl Mulvihill
FA#10: Beyond Failure
Mark Minkjan
Is Failure Central to the Architectural Profession?
Gary Davies
Why L.A. Is Important
Katya Tylevich
Towards a Design-City (Post-Design-Capital)
Jeong Hye Kim
The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica
René Boer
Architects Talking Architecture
Jan Loerakker
Game Over for Architects?
Michiel van Iersel
The New Wave: Drifting Towards the Shores of Simplification
Jan Loerakker
Wouter Vanstiphout on Architecture and Politics
Mark Minkjan
Nakagin Capsule Tower, Shimbashi, Tokyo
Michiel van Iersel
Failed Architecture #01: Preservation as a Matter of Urgency
Mark Minkjan
Berlin’s Palast der Republik
Michiel van Iersel