Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

Synthesising practice and pedagogy, Moussavi tackles difficult questions and produces an architecture that is as inventive as it is unpredictable

The elastic taxonomy of PoMo’s latest revival Multiform is ultimately superficial and reductive

The divergent afterlives of buildings are a damning expression of where we lavish our attention

Catherine Slessor reflects on the life of the AR’s longest serving art editor, Bill Slack

Catherine Slessor is a pearl-handled gun-for-hire. She maintains her enviable poise through bouts of mild swimming and wild martinis

Atomised through digital content hubs, architecture’s production through mass media has become a commodified flick book, cut off from the realities that shape it

Whether an oppressive tool of state power or unsettling locus of supernatural disquiet, the corridor has come to embody a unique form of experiential desolation

Whether the result of war or technological failure, blackouts expose our precarious reliance on light, but also make us see social relations differently

Winner of the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2020: the Centre Building of the LSE, designed by a Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners team led by Tracy Meller, has given the London campus a new heart

The rammed-earth pavilions of Waugh Thistleton’s Bushey New Cemetery provide an elegant and sober setting for funerals in a suburban idyll