Features
ADH 2020: Shortlist Interview - Anne-Françoise Morel
A series of features including interviews with shortlisted authors for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
ADH 2020: Shortlist Interview - Otto Saumarez Smith
A series of features including interviews with shortlisted authors for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
ADH 2020: Shortlist Interview - Louise Campbell
A series of features including interviews with shortlisted authors for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
Lynne Walker: Learning from the Thesis
To mark her forthcoming appearance at this year’s Awards Ceremony, our Annual Lecturer Dr Lynne Walker met with Aymee Thorne Clarke to discuss her 1978 thesis on Arts & Crafts architect and scholar E.S. Prior, the influence of her supervisor Nikolaus Pevsner and re-occurring subjects in contemporary architectural culture.
ADH 2020: Shortlist Interview - Łukasz Stanek
A series of features including interviews with shortlisted authors for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
Fascism and Italy’s Fallen Soldiers
Hannah Malone writes about italian architecture related to Italy’s fallen soldiers during fascism
‘The Battle of the Principal’: Insurrection at the Architectural Association
In an extract from his new book on the Architectural Association in the postwar years, Patrick Zamarian explores just one of the cyclical conflicts between the school’s student body and its principals, in this case the ‘querulous’ Michael Pattrick.
A Cathedral for Coventry, A Hospital for Doha
Todd Reisz present his new book Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai, where he explore the ways in which architecture orchestrated Dubai’s modernisation.
The Crisis of Heritage in Beirut: Corruption, Capital and Reconstruction
Yasmina EL Chami writes about the Crisis of Heritage buildings in Beirut, after an enormous explosion at the port of Beirut shook a city of two million inhabitants on 4 August 2020.
Queering the Essai sur l’Architecture: Laugier’s Politics of Exclusion
Christiane Matt will explore the politics of exclusion in this canonical text in a forthcoming SAHGB seminar. Here, she explains how she approached the application of queer theory to Laugier’s treatise.
Edward Maufe: The Architect and His Clients
Renowned as the architect of Guildford Cathedral, Edward Maufe had a long, varied and successful career. Juliet Dunmur, author of a recent biography of Maufe, explores one vital component of that success – the formation of close relationships with clients.
Queer Infrastructures and Architectural Histories
In the sixth of our pieces on queer heritage, Ben Campkin reflects on queer spaces in London and their relationship to architectural history.
