Author Archives: Stephen Parnell

Known for their radical design and specially commissioned photography, the AR’s eight Manplan issues should today be read as an environmental manifesto

At the end of a university building boom, the Marshall Building at LSE and Town House in Kingston, both in London and by Grafton Architects, strive for excellence

Stephen Parnell used to be an architect and continues to be a moth to architecture’s light, currently teaching and researching at Newcastle University

Steve Parnell looks back on the campaign of a past editor to change the AR into a seeker for a new kind of architectural sensibility

Piranesi’s seventeen remaining drawings of Paestum were brought together for the first time in a Berlin exhibition

Buildings may be constructed on the building site, but architecture is constructed in the discourse

A look at the Brazilian cities that have been formed by oleaginous ‘no-places’ forms a wider thesis on the domination and manufacture of nature

A look back at the work of the angry and passionate Ian Nairn, the outspoken critic of England’s ‘subtopian’ demise

In September 1969, the Architectural Review launched the brave and hard-hitting Manplan. Today, this dark humanist manifesto still strikes a chord in the debate of architecture’s social responsibilities

The innovative proposals by the Glass Age Committee, ranging from inhabited structures spanning across the Thames to the regeneration of entire neighbourhoods in British cities, were published in the AR as advertisements for manufacturers’ products between 1938 and 1963