Author Archives: Paul Davies

Paul Davies now sits in an old banana wagon at his typewriter, writing a bit of poetry and rebuilding an 18th-century barn

Central to the revivial of British textile arts and methods of production, Morris’ life was a constant tustle between his fervent socialist values and a concern with catering to the ‘swinish luxury of the rich’

The gas-fitter’s son from Norwich with sartorial flair and a way with words was on a mission to reanimate what he saw as a somewhat freeze-dried architectural Modernism with the fabled white heat of technology

The architecture of maverick Belgian architect Lucien Kroll may be expressive, quirky and prolific but remains largely invisible and inscrutable

Throughout history, spaces have been appropriated and undone in the service of rebellion

Gehry’s enduring career spotlights a world that has long lain waste to the spatial conceptions and obligations of the Renaissance

The facsimile edition of Learning from Las Vegas, by Jane Drew Prize winner Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour, is long overdue 

From the Altes Museum to Berlin as Schinkelzeit, Schinkel’s prolific legacy as ‘the Universal man’ lived on in the work of the Modernists

His hotels may have soft centres but the architecture of John Portman is as brutal as the late American capitalism that created it

The crux of Frank Lloyd Wright’s reputation lies in just how much you can believe of the romantic idealist as opposed to self-serving bastard