Features & Reports

Private Phaidon has just published a beautiful book by Robert McCarter on Louis Kahn. The book focuses on Kahn’s work but in recent years his private life has come under scrutiny. Alan Dunlop talked to Nathaniel Kahn, Kahn’s son and the film maker behind My Architect,...

Sarah Wigglesworth was one of four architects involved in a pilot scheme to design new schools which brought together the University of Sheffield and Sheffield City Council. She talked Prospect through the specifics and the fundamentals of designing for...

The new Fife College is indicative of changes in Higher Education. After years of under-investment colleges are attracting funding for new capital projects. The new buildings respond very directly to the government’s agendas of flexibility, accessibility and life-long...

Pairs of puzzled parents, anxious graduates, frowning academics: it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the symbolic overload of a degree show. For some it’s a rites of passage ceremony where architects make a statement, which will propel them forward into the world of...

We are on the eve of a radical change in attitude to the buildings that house architectural education. In spring this year, Liverpool John Moores University ran a competition for an architect for its new £21million design academy. JMU’s new school will house 1,200 people...