CultureAll our yesterdays: a wander through extinct ideasDo you remember serving hatches and ashtrays, fountain pens and slide rules? A new book celebrates ideas that have done their time18 November 2021
CultureExhibition reveals lasting impact of docks on LondonMuseum of London show unveils a closed city-within-a-city
CulturePeak waste: horror and hopeDesign Museum show offers shocking statistics and solutions to our waste crisis
CultureHow Victorian London was built to better our lotAndrew Saint’s atmospheric account of how building helped improve life for the poor
CultureTabernacle play exposes grim horror of Grenfell tragedyAccount of incompetence and indifference leaves feelings of shock and anger
CultureNancy Sheung adds human scale to architectural patternPhotographs reveal an unfazed woman in a man’s world
CultureLessons from history can help decarbonise buildingsForm follows energy: Barnabas Calder puts climate crisis in context
CultureJapanese show shines a wider light on Isamu NoguchiBarbican Art Gallery's exhibition charts Noguchi's evolving relationship with abstract sculpture, his collaborations and his exploration of the impact of his dual heritage6 October 2021
CultureModels show how making things smaller can create a bigger impactExhibition demonstrates how models can persuade, educate, add context and give pure pleasures
CultureEvery picture tells a storyArchitectural drawings inspired the stories, real and imagined, in Philippa Lewis' new book
CultureLewerentz sparkles in the limelight at Sweden’s ArkDesThe thrill of detective work that helped make an exhibition
CultureDavid Adjaye’s RA Summer Exhibition display takes on the material worldAdjaye creates the right climate at the RA Summer Exhibition
CultureCosmic House, the playful and serious museum that still feels like Charles Jencks’ homeA fizzing ferment of ideas explored through culture and the universe
CulturePeople’s Pavilion is first to be designed and curated by young peopleBeyond the Box project makes three teenagers’ ‘The Reverie’ a reality
CultureHow should we read Banham today?Stephen Parnell explores how Reyner Banham and his faith in hi-tech should be understood today
CultureDiscover the stories of Inagawa Cemetery, the Colour House pavilion and Mole HouseThree revealing and inventive monographs
CultureTino Sehgal’s art speaks to visitors at Blenheim PalaceTino Sehgal’s art experience mixes grandeur and intimacy at Blenheim Palace
CultureStudio Morison’s Silence sculpture set to complete the circle of life at YSPDecay is part of the process at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s latest work, Silence
CultureV&A updates its galleries of post Victorian livingV&A’s 1900_Now gallery refreshes 120 years of the changing face of modernity
CultureDesign Museum shows how Charlotte Perriand modernised our lives‘Pioneer of interior architecture’ who collaborated with Le Corbusier
CultureFour top picks from the London Festival of ArchitectureWar, climate emergency, virtual exhibitions, street art from infrastructure
CultureToshiki Hirano’s papier-mâché ‘pavilion of friendship’ unites Tokyo and LondonDigitally enhanced Washi paper for London Design Biennale suggests new design possibilities
CultureLessons from Syria: Make architecture a craft again and restore a sense of societyHoms-based Marwa al-Sabouni explores how the built environment can help mend society
CultureYayoi Kusama’s Tate Modern exhibition hits the reflective spotImmersive infinity mirrors create sense of calm and space
CultureDundee substitutes for Venice in search for civic role of architectureModest ideas with community benefits – project unveils local ambitions
CultureKeep out: Venice Biennale pavilion explores the decline of public spaceThe ‘creeping epidemic’ of privatised public space is the subject of installations at the biennale's British Pavilion
CultureVolume opens a door to understanding Yemen’s architectureRevelations on a cornerstone of Yemeni culture and heritage
CultureWhy we need to change today – and how to do itClimate emergency needs an entirely new approach from architecture
CultureLess Eminent Victorians is a late encore for unsung splendoursEdmund Harris’ engaging, enlightening and diverting investigative online blog
CultureVitra’s German design show reveals unexpected links as GDR and FDR rebuilt post-warComplex story of surprising connections between two Germanys
CultureWork still to be done: Jos Boys on the continuing campaigns of MatrixWhy we need to rethink the whole role of the architect
CultureListen with brutalism: a sound journey through ParisIain Chambers’ recordings of the sounds of Parisian architecture
CultureModernist Escapes takes you round the world in your armchairTravel vicariously to a promising future
CultureMemphis show brings fun and colour to MK GalleryMemphis: Plastic Field promises ‘sensory overload’
CultureFavourite books: What we can learn by taking a child’s view of the cityThe Child in the City, Colin Ward, New York: Pantheon Books/London: The Architectural Press, 1978
CultureFavourite books: Context and client are welcome constraintsIt’s the personal relationship that makes it all worthwhile