Culture

The celebrated architect who took inspiration from sitting, waiting and contemplating

29 minutes

West Africa was once an architectural laboratory. Is it time for a revival?

12 minutes

‘I listen to the land’ – poetry and greenery intertwine in Emilio Ambasz’s architecture

9 minutes

The new architecture wars

Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative?

Owen Hatherley

The subtle art of elevation

Architectural drawing speaks of mathematical precision, but its roots lie in the theological exegesis of a prophetic book

Karl Kinsella

Tour the European architecture that dreamed of a wondrous, fictitious China

16 minutes

The art of Istanbul dances to life in a tribute to the city’s timeless beauty

4 minutes

Modern architecture should embrace – not ignore or repel – the nonhuman world

8 minutes

The radically impractical 18th-century architect whose ideas on beauty endure

19 minutes

Why a sculptor pivoted from gallery installations to big-box stores design

9 minutes

How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime

35 minutes

Being in a building

One of the great buildings of the Renaissance reminds us that buildings are made to be explored, smelled and even tasted

David Karmon

Heritage at sea

Must we simply accept the loss of beloved buildings and cities to the floods and rising seas of the climate crisis?

Thijs Weststeijn

Acoustic naturalism

Our movies and offices are engineered to sound natural based on what rang false in the theatres of 18th-century Paris

Joseph L Clarke

A whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s high-rises is an awesome meditation on urbanity

9 minutes

Cultural wisdom begets cozy temporary homes for the Nenets of the Siberian Arctic

32 minutes

A world of shacks and shanties is a place of makeshift beauty on England’s margins

12 minutes

Surreal, audacious, unfinished – the Sagrada Família remains a divine work in progress

6 minutes