Architecture

Tracing the history of ruins in art, from 18th-century painting to 21st-century film

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

How architects are dealing with the problems of housing the 600 million rural immigrants moving to Chinese cities

Many controversial buildings currently await an uncertain fate, raising the issue of aesthetic success versus social function

Filling the Architectural Association's Georgian exhibition space with a series of objects that are unashamedly material and corporeal, an exhibition of and about ornament

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

A report from the 11th International Architecture Biennale

Exploring the history of Cuba’s National Art schools – a tale that reflects the hopes and failures of a revolution

From relentless development in the Persian Gulf to the slow pace of building in Rome, Bradley Horn and Cathryn Drake survey the past year

Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen (eds.), (Bidoun and Moutamarat, Dubai, 2007)

Artificial ruins

An Endangered Masterpiece of Victorian Engineering

The 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale

Plain surfaces

Florian Pumhosl

Getting back to nature at the Eden Project in Cornwall

Architectural collaborations

Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain