Category: Architecture

Dubai Superlatives: The Power of Excessive Wealth

10 April 2023 / 14

Questions From a Worker Who Reads (by Bertolt Brecht, 1935) Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?In the books you will read the names of kings.Did the... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Architecture

Red Vienna: the architecture of socialist hope

8 January 2020 / 13

Dennis Broe tells the story of Red Vienna Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities. Those people owning capital in... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Architecture

Class and Culture in Los Angeles: Fear and Loathing in the City of the Angels

19 August 2019 / 13

Dennis Broe excavates the contradictions of class and culture in the architecture, art and culture of Los Angeles Race is the way class is spoken in America,... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Ivan Leonidov, model for the Lenin Institute, Moscow, 1927

Architecture

The Russian Revolution and Avant-Garde Architecture

28 October 2017 / 13

Jean Turner looks at the dramatic changes that took place in architecture following the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound influence this had on the development of the... Continue reading

Jean Turner

Architecture

‘We want art back, the new art of architecture’

20 April 2017 / 13

‘A model of clear thinking and informed comment’ – Nick Wright reviews the Imagine Moscow exhibition at the Design Museum. “The position is this: the ecstatic period... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Architecture

The architect as activist

15 April 2017 / 13

Peggy Deamer, on behalf of The Architecture Lobby, introduces their manifesto. As professionalized architecture eradicates the discourse of design as labor, it does so in capitalism’s favor,... Continue reading

Peggy Deamer

Architecture

Architecture and socialism

13 April 2017 / 13

This section of Culture Matters is about architecture, including its role in shaping our collective future. Chris Guiton offers a foundation essay on achitecture and socialism. Architecture is an... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Architecture

Take back control: inspiring revolutionary architecture from 1917 Russia…..and 2017 London

12 April 2017 / 13

Revolutionary architecture should inspire us to take control of the built environment, says Nathan Akehurst Six visions of futures past, resurrected by London’s Design Museum in the exhibition... Continue reading

Nathan Akehurst

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