We Built This City

Initially created by a group of friends as an online scrapbook, Cabin Porn became a phenomenon following the publication of the first volume of pho...

This is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in? As Charles Montgomery revea...

During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban plann...

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with ...

translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield In De architectura (c. 40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roma...

translated by Shaun Whiteside Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture. Ad...

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of ...

Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and tyrants share such a fascination with grand designs? Is it to impress or terrify, to wield state...

We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the 21st century? Drawing examples from across th...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places...

Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls,...