Author Archives: Fumihiko Maki

Open space: utopia is not a building

By Fumihiko Maki 17 March 2017 Essays

Open spaces that are free from the intrusion of buildings – that is, independent open spaces ― afford greater power and importance

Campus Cool: East Regional Chilled Water Plant by Leers Weinzapfel Associates

16 March 2017 By Matthew Messner

Architect of the Year shortlist: material articularion and creative detailing dresses up…

Rachel Whiteread: ‘Faithful to a truly architectural project’

16 March 2017 By Anthony Vidler

Whiteread’s architecture autre interrogates the psychic response to space

Matthew Beaumont on London: ‘Nothing fits in this city. Either the locks are too large or the key is too small’

18 March 2017 By Matthew Beaumont

How we feel we fit into our cities is changing with the…

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Corridors of uncertainty: Modernist utopia and cinematic menace

11 June 2020 By Catherine Slessor

Whether an oppressive tool of state power or unsettling locus of supernatural…

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