Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus schoolNot much united Walter Ulbricht, the Stalinist dictator of East Germany for two decades, and Tom Wolfe, celebrant of the splendours and ...
10: The long gallery, Chastleton House, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1607-1612
As part of our series exploring Britain's architectural wonders, the Observer's architecture critic introduces a spectacular interactive 360-degree panoramic view of this classic example of the Jacobean long gallery• Explore the Chastleton House long...
Canada Water library – review
Southwark's new library is a bold venture at a time when similar institutions are being shut by the dozenOMG! It's a library! An absolutely new one, with books in it, too! Aren't such things supposed to be dinosaurs, driven to extinction by the cuts of...
9: Lincoln Cathedral
The Observer's architecture critic introduces a spectacular, interactive 360-degree photograph of the cathedral so admired by Nikolaus Pevsner• Explore the panoramic image of Lincoln Cathedral"A bicycle shed is a building," wrote Nikolaus Pevsner. "L...
The Art-Architecture complex by Hal Foster
Is it a good idea if architects start seeing themselves as artists? Rowan Moore salutes a refreshingly rigorous argumentOurs is a time when art looks more and more like architecture, and architecture looks quite like art. Now rising at the 2012 Olympic...
All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin
America's most invigorating writer on architecture is at his best when defending the importance of uncompromised public spaceMichael Sorkin has long been America's most invigorating writer on architecture. His preferred medium is the medium-sized artic...
Vauxhall Gardens: A History by David E Coke and Alan Borg – review
London's famed pleasure gardens, now lost to history, provided a fascinating clash between high and low art, noble and vulgar pleasuresIf you go to the site of Vauxhall Gardens now, you will find a ragged patch of grass near to a demonic concatenation ...
Living in the Endless City, ed. Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic; The New Blackwell Companion to the City, ed. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson – review
Two hefty books ask how to improve our crowded urban lifeMore than half the world, as you may have heard, now lives in cities. It is becoming one of the most bandied facts of our time, prompting the likes of Andrew Marr to tour the world for TV series ...
Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda
Will the urban centres of tomorrow be built around large, busy airports? Rowan Moore does not think soThe old city is no more. The future belongs to places such as New Songdo in South Korea, a wholly new city being built on an artificial island and lin...
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture by Deyan Sudjic | Book review
Norman Foster is a fascinating character, but this isn't quite the biography he deserves
It was the misfortune of Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, that his £37m Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, a 62-metre-high pyramid that would host the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions and house...
