High Tech   Critic Tim Abrahams investigates and appraises the architectural style High Tech which, he says, was founded on the determination to have the future immediately. Rather than wait for technology and society to fall in line with their aspirations, the High Tech architects began building that future with what lay around them. In… Read More

No Style   Architect Amin Taha believes that style is over. Finished. Kaput. In this brilliant essay, he says that whilst it is still just about tenable that style can be an identifiable "look", as a device for critical engagement, style as a meaningful unity, standing alone and yet representing many, is undoubtedly a thing… Read More

Modernism   Critic, academic and writer, Austin Williams explores the hidden tenets of Modernism. In this inspiring essay he asks that we reinvigorate Modernist sensitivities, critical openness, universalist aspirations and humanist development and to do it with some urgency. Whilst the architecture of Modernism is amongst the highest achievements of humanity, he says, he argues… Read More

Islamic Architecture   Can we truly speak of an Islamic architecture, asks Karl Sharro, satirist, architect and author? Is there something that unites the various strands of architecture in the Islamic world, Umayyad, Memluk, Ottoman, under one stylistic umbrella? Does Islamic architecture share little more than its Islamic context? Sharro, in this subtle, considered essay… Read More

Constructivism   Architect and academic, Theo Dounas, explores the essential qualities of Constructivism in this barnstorming essay. Exploring constructivism’s great achievements: the notion that one can create architectonic utopias; the confidence that argument and experimentation is inherently creative; the idea that one can be shamelessly playful and inherently productive at the same time; the liberation… Read More