Author Archives: Jack Self

Financially idiotic and environmentally reckless, tiny homes are a fantasy of the struggling middle classes

The crowning jewel at King’s Cross Central, Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard is yet another in a litany of cultural hubs cum shopping arenas that are carefully choreographed confections of disingenuous ‘authentic’ experiences

Koolhaas’s heroic trajectory provides an impossible formula for success, combining unquestioned genius with a waning culture of willigness to embrace the figure of the starchitect

Confronted with the legality of suicide, the Swiss authorities have struggled to reconcile it with existing zoning laws

Without innovation and dramatic change, how will British architecture survive in a post-Brexit world?

The frontline of British architecture today is not just a housing crisis, it is a crisis of our entire form of life, writes curator Jack Self

The monastic nature of contemporary work is no coincidence

Architects are increasingly addressing the problematics of the 21st century, exemplified by House Housing which tackles inequality full on

The work of Ludwig Leo offered ‘two fingers’ to those who would divide the architectural world into the drawn proposition versus the built proposition

An exploration of the association between politics, architecture and Parametricism reveals that, even when disconnected, the three are irrevocably linked