Author Archives: Tim Abrahams

The articulation of a sophisticated social ambition through a complex physical arrangement has stood the test of time

Can the gentrification of the countryside be assuaged to make way for something more authentic?

A place of retreat on the southern Norwegian coast is born out of a harsh landscape

lotademacedo large The Brazilian aristocrat Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares is best known outside her native country for her intense, tragic love affair with one of the greatest poets of the late 20th century, Elizabeth Bishop. However, in Brazil, Dona Lota, as she was known, is remembered as  the…

A move away from the traditional use of stone as cladding, and from the villa model, in Palestine

It is possible that the two things that most define our age – increasing urbanisation and the development of digital communications technology – have very little to do with each other

OMA’s Fondazione Prada, clad in gold, houses a private institution with a very public role

This timely exhibition claims the rise of cybernetics has evolved from a self-governing technological system to a political model encompassing significant limitations

Currently being exhibited at the Science Museum, these pictures may not be architectural photography in any sense of the phrase - but their importance in our consideration of the field of architecture is major

A landmark new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture unearths the digital pasts of architects Peter Eisenman, Shoei Yoh, Frank Gehry and Chuck Hoberman. Exploring the particular story of four projects, taken together they show how the computer has radically changed architectural design for ever, argues Tim Abrahams