D
Contributor
Douglas Murphy

Douglas Murphy is a writer based in London, UK. His book Last Futures: Nature, Technology, and the End of Architecture (2015) is published by Verso.

Opinion
Blow it to Smithereens? The Fate of Berthold Lubetkin’s Modernist Penguin Pool at London Zoo

The avian playground was a manifesto for a modernism that could employ gymnastic engineering to theatrical effect – what happens with its inhabitants long gone?

BY Douglas Murphy | 11 JAN 19
Features
Bricks and Mortar

The architecture of Tate Modern's new extension, the Switch House

BY Douglas Murphy | 17 JUN 16
Frieze
Towers of Babble

The ArcelorMittal Orbit and the recent history of large-scale folly

BY Douglas Murphy | 01 MAY 12
Influences
Vanity Fairs

Shanghai Expo 2010 is the most recent incarnation of the Great Exhibitions that began in London in 1851

BY Douglas Murphy | 01 JUN 10
Reviews
First Works

Architectural Association, London, UK

BY Douglas Murphy | 01 MAR 10
Culture Digest
Architecture

Unemployment, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs

BY Douglas Murphy AND Oliver Elser | 01 JAN 10