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Photograph: the birth of robotic architectural aesthetics

When were the first robot aesthetics in architecture?

Hindsight: Stephen Hodder on the unquenchable pursuit of design excellence

From Colne swimming pool to the Welcome Building at RHS Bridgewater, the Hodder Associates founder looks back - and forward

Timber construction is a silver bullet for climate change

Bauhaus Earth founder on catalysing an architectural renaissance

Moshe Safdie builds future ideas on a radical past

Radical visions, then and now

Interview: Juhani Pallasmaa returns to our relationship with the natural world

Influential architectural thinker updates his theories in timely show

Photographer Dylan Nardini finds local colour in Motherwell

A sight begging for some kids with a football

Realism before beauty

Luca Piffaretti, Aberfeldy Vision, 2021

How Spain's Lacol won the Mies Prize for Emerging Architecture

Barcelona practice on its embedded, transgressive approach

Hindsight: Laurie Chetwood on pushing boundaries and the importance of art in architecture

The Chetwoods founder looks back on his career, from the Sainsbury’s Millennium Store to a current dream project

Hindsight – Bennetts Associates: 'We certainly didn’t have parents who wanted a house designing'

Denise and Rab Bennetts: from precarious beginnings to the projects they are most proud of

Deaf architect Ben Stephens on his career, clients and life in practice

Ben Stephens on how he refused to let deafness stop him being a successful architect

Art, architecture and the city: what drives Jayden Ali?

Jayden Ali seeks diversity in his work and his career as an architect

Colonial Art Deco delights hang on in Uganda

Uganda’s Art Deco architecture moment photographed by Oskar Proctor

Practice Architecture and Material Cultures – taking bio-based materials mainstream

Future Winners - Paloma Gormley, Practice Architecture and Material Cultures

Editional Studio: flying the flag for retrofit

The Manchester practice uses its shopfront studio to win work and promote sustainable architecture

Gasholders unplugged

Why life’s a gas for Richard Chivers

Why New Practice is still chasing the challenge

New Practice champions community voices in urban development

Hindsight: Ken Yeang on blazing a trail for ecological design

Ken Yeang talks about his five-decade-long career, pioneering the design of green buildings

Tikari Works: first, find your plot

The practice has carried out every role from marketing its schemes to hiring its site workforce

Office Sian on why community is everything

Future winner - Office Sian is finding its voice by listening to the community

Their dark materials: What drives Adam Khan Architects

Adam Khan Architects on nuance, flexibility and community

Out of the darkness: Sue Barr’s Die Streifen, Duisburg

A splash of colour in an eerily desolate landscape

Balkrishna Doshi at his Sangath Studio, Ahmedabad in December 2021.

PODCAST: Royal Gold Medallist Balkrishna Doshi, man of the people

The Royal Gold Medal-winning architect on people, growth and a fresh look

Max Creasy’s art and illusion in northern Japan

Photographer finds all is not as it seems in Asahikawa

Takeshi Hayatsu’s model trajectory

From 6a director to maker architect deeply invoved with local communities

PODCAST: Arup finds new ways to work as it emerges from lockdown disruption

Arup's Jo Wright, Nick Jackson and Christina Cox talk about winning work, radical refurbishment and being part of the Arup giant

Carlos Moreno: 15 minutes to save the world

How Carlos Moreno travelled from the favela to the Smart City

Straight and narrow: Delicate Ecuador bridge catches photographer’s eye

Joel Rodriguez Davila’s drone photograph of a Cotopaxi bridge

‘We raided history, the modern and the vernacular and mixed them up’

Piers Gough on a lifetime of getting emotion and drama into architecture

Top spot to hang out: Callisthenics in Kowloon

David Gutierrez: Garden Hill, Hong Kong, 2018

International style in 1930s Israel

Helen Bieberkraut left Germany in the 1930s for Israel, and moved from photographing people to the international style buildings she found there

McLean Quinlan makes it personal

Success is a family matter

Beyond the iron triangle: Anupama Kundoo asks how, who and why

Anupama Kundoo starts by questioning the basic constraints of how we build

Dixon Jones

Hindsight: Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones on why both their mothers were right

Dixon Jones’ founders on their achievements, ups and downs, and succession planning

Searching for perspective

Adam Mørk ‘Belonging’, Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland 2021

Hale Wharf, 2021

Hale Wharf by Tim Crocker: a long journey in an instant

What do you see? How a random stranger changed a photo’s meaning