Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

Devised by pleasure-seeking Victorians but now undermined by social change and physical neglect, does the building that defined the seaside have a future?

Activating multiple modernities and identities, the Barbican’s Modern Couples exhibition probed the explicit intertwining of lives and art

Food as phantasmagoric spectacle conceals murkier aspects of power relations

All architects have a chair in them, but as with everyman novels, most should never hit the production line

Inspired by Art Deco, the machine aesthetic, organicism, biomorphism, Art Brut and industrial prefabrication, French architect and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand deeply believed that good design should be fundamentally transformative and accessible to all

From the emasculation of the public realm to the horror of capital punishment, state power depends on a hellish infrastructure of objects and tactics

The commodification and proscription of urban intensity is a threat to the life of the city

Peter Davey, who died in March aged 78, was the AR’s 11th and second longest-serving editor

Adolf Loos’s lost house for Josephine Baker marked a seminal moment in the expression of cultural and social modernity

With one foot in South Korea and the other in New York, the work of Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim is a hybridisation of East and West