Books

Queer Spaces celebrates and protests in a diverse collection of essays

An important read for architects, designers and planners

Revived Outram colours our world again

Geraint Fanklin’s book reflects a highly individual designer

Boris Iofan: The architect who outlived Stalin

Gillian Darley reviews Deyan Sudjic’s Stalin’s Architect, a biography of Boris Iofan

Modern Buildings in Britain: Owen Hatherley’s lucky dip

Owen Hatherley’s swashbuckling tour of Britain’s modern buildings

Vienna’s MAK returns Josef Hoffmann to his place in the architectural canon

Josef Hoffmann - Progress Through Beauty, at MAK, Vienna

Favourite books: Madeleine Kessler on why all architects should read Caleb Femi’s Poor

Why Madeleine Kessler had to reconsider her preconceptions

Favourite books: Nimi Attanayake chooses the business case for different thinking

How diversity keeps organisations agile and relevant

Favourite books: Naila Yousuf finds out what the Saracens did for us

What the English Gothic church owes to Islam

All our yesterdays: a wander through extinct ideas

A new book celebrates ideas that have had their time

How Victorian London was built to better our lot

Andrew Saint’s atmospheric history of how building helped improve life for the poor

Lessons from history can help decarbonise buildings

Form follows energy: Barnabas Calder puts climate crisis in context

Every picture tells a story

Architectural drawings inspired the stories, real and imagined, in Philippa Lewis' new book

Discover the stories of Inagawa Cemetery, the Colour House pavilion and Mole House

Three revealing and inventive monographs

Lessons from Syria: Make architecture a craft again and restore a sense of society

Homs-based Marwa al-Sabouni explores how the built environment can help mend society

State of the art museum

Charles Saumarez Smith 's book on architect’s role in defining the modern art museum

Modernist Escapes takes you round the world in your armchair

Travel vicariously to a promising future

The future is here

A new book highlights 79 projects that push the boundaries of architecture

Favourite books: What we can learn by taking a child’s view of the city

The Child in the City, Colin Ward, New York: Pantheon Books/London: The Architectural Press, 1978

Favourite books: Context and client are welcome constraints

It’s the personal relationship that makes it all worthwhile

Favourite books: why is so much of England's land is owned by so few?

The effects of William the Conqueror's land grab are with us still

Favourite books: Hope, humanity and our natural instincts

Are humans essentially bad or good?

Feelings, frames and fakes: how to woo visitors at an exhibition

‘Closed on Mondays’ looks at what makes a show work

How to get your head round being an architect

Hone your critical, creative and collaborative thinking

In the footsteps of a follies fanatic

Rory Fraser takes a tour of England's architectural oddities

Evolution of our towns captured in collection of historic drawings

Medieval to industrial: ancient drawings chart how towns changed

Porritt’s Hope in Hell ducks the political questions

How can we change political thinking?

What will your descendents thank you for?

Roman Krznaric explains why we need to think really long term

Interior lives: At home with Auden, Soane and Sibelius

Lives of Houses – how homes shaped the lives of their famous owners

Fits and starts in 60 years of Soviet design

Capitalist connotations left designers struggling to flourish

Students, do you know what you’re getting into?

Neil Spiller's book will students prepare you for architecture school

The media: architecture’s influential friend

RIBA’s Freestyle exhibition charts historic relationship

We’re not powerless: our skills can build a future to be proud of

On Fire by Naomi Klein is a wake-up call for architects to fight climate change

Technologies changing architecture, and the world, for good or ill

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, will give you pause for thought

Story of a farm’s rewilding is an inspiration for architects

Story of a farm’s rewilding should be a spur to architects

Let’s reintroduce some darkness and stillness to Western design

In Praise of Shadows makes us rethink our Western obsession with light and clean lines

Why do we love or loathe particular buildings?

Understanding the science of emotions can change the way you practise