A liberated and profoundly queer urbanism is required for the full spectrum of humanity to thrive
Author Archives: Adam Nathaniel Furman
Outrage: the prejudice against queer aesthetics
Architecture represses plurality and queerness in favour of heteronormative culture
Outrage: ‘There is a silent agreement in contemporary British architecture: you may deploy ornament, but never too much’
Tasteful restraint is pandering to planners and the public
View from Rome
After two and a half decades of inertia, the city of Rome is now trying to put its house in order, says Adam Nathaniel Furman
Bend it like Bernini: The grand Parisian design that became a Roman staple
Bernini’s visit to Paris at the behest of Louis XIV ended in rejection. The unwanted Louvre designs, however, sowed the seeds for his later Roman commissions
Innocent Wink: A mysteriously evasive building by Innocenzo Sabbatini
Representing the Roman School of expressionist eclectic architects in the 1920s, Sabbatini’s anthropomorphic buildings raise a wry smile
Everything is Illuminated (with LEDs)
The rapid maturing of LED and digital technology in the hands of companies like iGuzzini is generating an explosion in what artificial lighting can do with colour, scale, screens and embedding