Architecture

A new biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’

A swathe of renovations and extensions across the UK capital suggests an appetite for a different kind of architecture

Twitter users have been quick to think of alternative nicknames, including ‘the cotton bud’ and ‘the tadpole’

Designed by Beijing-based practice, OPEN Architecture, UCCA Dune burrows beneath the sand dunes in the coastal resort of Beidaihe

How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective

Along with other prominent figures, the British architect has stepped down from Neom’s advisory board following Jamal Khashoggi’s death

A new show at London’s Wellcome Collection charts the influence manmade structures have had on health and wellbeing

An homage to the architect who, with his partner Denise Scott Brown, developed the source code for postmodernism

In the tanks of a Victorian bathhouse, the Turner Prize-winning Assemble have created a contemporary art gallery at Goldsmiths, London

The legendary Tokyo-based architect reflects on his first UK building, which opens to the public on Saturday

If the new V&A is Dundee’s public face to the world, it underscores the motto of the city’s famous resident: ‘think global act local’

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

Ahead of his first solo in the UK, why the late California-based sculptor’s material sensibility and countercultural ideals deserve reappraisal

A house that looks like a powerstation and a ‘grotesque’ hotel extension are in the running for architects’s least favourite prize

For the first show at S1 Artspace's new home in the Brutalist housing estate, two photographers who documented it in the 1960s and ’80s

Alongside a centuries-old collection of Old Masters, Delftware and Chinoiserie, the Devonshires continue to commission contemporary art 

Disputes about city architecture and historical revisionism are raging, but political lines are not always so clear

As two recent London exhibitions of the architect’s photographs show, this underappreciated polymath has always been ahead of her time

A number of galleries have recently been marked for demolition, and a number more fear for their long-term survival

A number of exhibitions in London explore how contemporary technologies and lifestyles are changing the architecture of the home