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“Bowing out gracefully is a rare thing in the starchitect firmament”

March 5, 2024 Catherine Slessor 0

Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it’s best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor. Though it seems like only yesterday that the ribbon was being cut on the Bilbao Guggenheim, Frank Gehry turned 95 at the end of February. Architecture’s original enfant terrible,

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“Ratti’s Venice biennale appointment marks a screeching U-turn”

January 4, 2024 Catherine Slessor 0

Carlo Ratti’s appointment as the next Venice Architecture Biennale director raises questions about how architecture’s most important event will be impacted by Italy’s far-right government, writes Catherine Slessor. Just before Christmas, somewhat overlooked in the festive haze of tinsel and eggnog, it was announced that Italian architect and engineer Carlo Ratti has been appointed to

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“What do such dutifully dull shortlists say about the wider state of the Stirling?”

October 20, 2023 Catherine Slessor 0

Yet another low-key shortlist for the Stirling Prize this year reflects UK architecture’s continued fading from the public eye, writes Catherine Slessor. In line with the bookies’ predictions, this year’s Stirling Prize went to Mae’s John Morden Centre daycare facility for Morden College, a charity that provides residential care for the elderly. Emblematic of what

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“Reports of modernism’s death turned out to be greatly exaggerated”

July 15, 2022 Catherine Slessor 0

On the 50th anniversary of Pruitt-Igoe’s demolition, it’s clear that Charles Jencks declaration that modernism had died was a self-serving myth, writes Catherine Slessor. This month sees the 50th anniversary of the “Death of Modern Architecture” as precisely calibrated to the day, hour and minute by Charles Jencks. “Modern architecture died in St Louis Missouri on July 15, 1972

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“The very idea of deconstructivism now seems hopelessly implausible”

May 13, 2022 Catherine Slessor 0

The excess and self-indulgence of deconstructivism stand in stark contrast to the urgent existential issues facing architects today, writes Catherine Slessor as part of our series revisiting the style. As the love child of American architect Peter Eisenman and French semiotician Jacques Derrida, deconstructivism had its roots in an unlikely cross-fertilisation. Yet there is an even more raunchy version of

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“The annual quest for a national Best in Show seems increasingly problematic”

October 18, 2021 Catherine Slessor 0

It was the right choice to give Grafton Architects’ Kingston University London this year’s Stirling Prize, says Catherine Slessor, but the award is still struggling to find its purpose. So Grafton Architects have now collected the set. Following the Pritzker Architecture Prize and RIBA Gold Medal, the 2021 Stirling Prize has been awarded to the Town House

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“Bauhaus histories tend to be disproportionately dominated by male protagonists”

November 20, 2018 Catherine Slessor 0

Women are often edited out of the history of the Bauhaus, says Catherine Slessor, in this Opinion as part of our Bauhaus 100 series. But the role of female Bauhauslers in shaping the course of modern design is at last being addressed. The young women of the Bauhaus seem like typical art students, when you see them in pictures. With their

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“Neave Brown is now among architecture’s immortals”

January 18, 2018 Catherine Slessor 0

Neave Brown’s extraordinary legacy reflects a progressive social agenda that is lacking in many of today’s architects, says Catherine Slessor. The architectural highlight of 2017, without doubt, was Neave Brown’s valedictory lecture in the unlikely confines of London’s Hackney Empire. As he came on stage, to rapturous applause, he gave a little shimmy to the crowd,

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“Neave Brown is now among architecture’s immortals”

January 18, 2018 Catherine Slessor 0

Neave Brown’s extraordinary legacy reflects a progressive social agenda that is lacking in many of today’s architects, says Catherine Slessor. The architectural highlight of 2017, without doubt, was Neave Brown’s valedictory lecture in the unlikely confines of London’s Hackney Empire. As he came on stage, to rapturous applause, he gave a little shimmy to the crowd,

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