Gort Scott’s new workspaces for the film and television industry in east London show dexterous deployment of resources
Author Archives: Ruth Lang
Centurion Close in London, UK by Islington Architects
Picking up where the council’s Architects’ Department left off, Islington Architects’ social housing near Caledonian Road addresses urgent housing need in inner London
Design with discards: process as product
Unseen, unbuilt iterations of projects should be made visible as a valuable part of architectural agency, not hidden as wasteful mistakes
Making good: Harrow Arts Centre in London, UK by DK-CM
The DK-CM co-founder argues that creating better environments involves more than just designing new buildings
Ruth Lang: letter to a young architect
Ruth Lang is currently separated from her students but can be found consoling herself for a lack of travel by recreating far-flung cuisines in her south London kitchen
‘Some buildings are created icons, some achieve iconicity, some have iconicity thrust upon them’
A new analysis of iconic architecture shows how it becomes emblematic of the immaterial forces behind it, but crucially disregards the agency of architects