Opinion

Can architects design the way we see?

‘The architectural moments we notice, love and feel we own are often just fragments'

Opinion: Will Wiles on the power of collecting

Why do we accumulate and treasure often banal, everyday ephemera?

Leader: Winning people over with a personal touch

General Election strategies echo architects’ attempts to win influence

Leader: Let nothing be set in stone

Eleanor Young sounds a note of caution for the profession

Galactic empires still relate to earthly architecture

Dune offers convincing places and realistic resonances, finds Will Wiles

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition runner-up: from dusk till dawn, by Siobhan Coker

Navigating the intricate tango of tradition and modernity within the Nigerian context

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition runner-up: mind the gap – inaccessibility in British rail stations, by Ellie Olszewski-Smith

Greatly improved accessibility should be a key architectural function of train stations

Make do and mend?

Thank goodness for the creativity of architects with public sector buildings

A system tied up in nots

A climate-positive political environment needs coherent regulation

Talking dirty: Will Wiles seeks a positive in the ghosts of the Underground

What to do about the ghosts emerging from Elizabeth Line walls?

Opinion: The point of view

How our attitudes to prospect and refuge are changing

Politicians, can you hear us?

Listen to local views, don’t keep inventing new systems

Rough cut: when abandoned buildings meet architects

The tension between domesticising a space and appreciating it for what it is

Will Wiles in praise of the floor plan

Secrets exposed, mystique intact

Who needs complicated?

Why we need clean design that's simple to use

Danger and delight: how illusion fools and feeds us

Misrepresentation brings both pain and pleasure

Back to the futurism

Could high-tech practicality see a revival?

Muyiwa Oki: Rebel with a cause

Appeal rather than attack is the way to bring change

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but architects need to win over beholders

Bath’s controversial coliseum relights an old fire

Why AI can only take you so far on the journey to art

The dreary truth about artificial intelligence’s ‘creativity’

Global warming: is it time to panic?

The need for serious climate action is boiling over, says Eleanor Young

Memorial design and meaning: extract from Remembrance Now

Memorials, memory and design, explored by Michèle Woodger and Tszwai So

A roomful of art puts design into unexpected focus

Eleanor Young gets a sudden perspicacious view of the blurry world of design

Comment: Life gives a place its soul

Details are what help buildings become inhabitable places

Glimpses into hidden worlds

Why does our childish delight in cutaway representations persist?

Fossil fuels' slow slip into history

Regulation and technology are lagging on climate needs

How invisible connections steer thoughts and relationships

Will Wiles on the hidden links of modern life

The human factor still trounces AI

Business still relies on people more than technology

You can’t sort out inequality and strikes but architecture can send a ray of hope

How architecture can heal cracks in communities

Kevin O’Neill: astounding draughtsman with subversive design talent

Celebrating the creator of the goriest, glorious comic-book art

Quality is key to unlock the housing crisis

What lies behind Michael Gove’s U-turn on housing targets?

How the Gothic style bound ghosts to buildings

Will Wiles approaches the haunted house from the other direction

Learning from our heroes: in search of inspiration

Eleanor Young tries to put her finger on that special something

How to create local spaces that are there to be shared

Questions that help turn public spaces into cohesive communities

Other-worldly ideas help point a route to effective climate action

Eleanor Young gets sustainability inspiration from Bristol's Martian house

Sinister views lurk in back-to-the-old-ways architectural posturing

Dangerously right-wing polemics have infiltrated some seemingly harmless criticisms