Author Archives: Nichola Barrington‑Leach

Renée Gailhoustet (1929–2023)

By Nichola Barrington‑Leach 11 October 2024 Reputations

Designing for the ‘red suburbs’ of Paris, the architect and urbanist created postwar social housing that is both fiercely pragmatic and deeply poetic

‘An extraordinary feat of concrete craftsmanship’: Argos Centre in Medellín by Lorenzo Castro

8 February 2016 By Roz Barr

Lorenzo Castro has taken a material often considered unforgiving in nature, and…

Revisit: Les Étoiles d’Ivry, Paris, France, by Jean Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet

20 May 2019 By Meriem Chabani and John Edom

Designed in the 1970s by Jean Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet, there is more…

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French connection: after the Pritzker winners

9 June 2022 By Andrew Ayers

A heterogeneous profession, characterised by a healthy culture of smaller practices, struggles…

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Social contract: Parisian social housing

30 June 2022 By Magda Maaoui

Provision of social housing in Grand Paris is a very mixed picture,…

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Iwona Buczkowska (1953–)

6 March 2024 By Manon Mollard

A pioneer of timber construction and fierce defender of the right to…

AR October 2024: Concrete

8 October 2024 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

Studio Mumbai | Studio Méditerranée | AFF Architekten | Ítala Fulvia Villa…

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Concrete ceiling: decarbonising the planet’s most consumed human-made material

9 October 2024 By Martha Dillon

Recent advances in concrete decarbonisation are enticing but not enough to save the…

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