The director of Sam Jacob Studio and former director of FAT writes about sketching as potential or possibility, drawing as architecture and architecture as representation
Fugitive thought: Sam Jacob on the sketchbook
Author Archives: Sam Jacob
‘If at first you don’t succeed, cry, cry again’: Madelon Vriesendorp on being written out of history
Vriesendorp, winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2018, explores refreshing alternatives to professional modes of practice in art or architecture
‘We are not the first to believe in the utopia of craft to deliver us from the shock of modernity’
We must not be drawn into the fictional satisfactions of nostalgia – whether in the artisanal bread we eat or an overworked Arts and Crafts detail
‘Failure to invest in where we manufacture society is a dereliction of duty’
As the AR School Awards show, there’s no shortage of architects and designers willing to deliver schools of exceptional quality
Will Wiles’ Way Inn: is there a way out?
Wiles’ decision to construct his narrative upon a direct reflection of the contemporary world makes for a very powerful and architecturally-compelling commentary on the alienating habitat we live in
Log jammed: the messy reality of contemporary architecture
Reflecting on the first decade of Log magazine, Sam Jacob concludes that the neatness of architectural movements has segued into today’s much messier plurality
Playing with Postmodernism
Postmodernism at the V&A
