The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Supporting detail: Slate fencing at House in North Wales
A year after winning the 2020 AJ Small Projects award for his House in North Wales, architect Martin Edwards reflects on one of the project’s discreet elements
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Book review: ‘My father was the house. The house was my father’
Peter Womersley’s 1957 Modernist house, High Sunderland, provides the focus for Shelley Klein’s enjoyable memoir of her father, textile designer Bernat Klein, for whom the house was built, writes Rob Wilson
Book review: City life at its best documented by Ikea research group
The Ideal City, a book by the Ikea-backed SPACE10, visits projects in 53 cities in a quest to find a better urban future
Kate Macintosh: ‘The idea that everyone should have decent housing is just a given’
Last month, the acclaimed public sector architect was awarded the 2021 Jane Drew Prize in recognition of a lifetime of pioneering work. Alpa Depani talks to the retired but still-campaigning 83-year-old about her career and projects
Tobi Sobowale: The poetic qualities of a space
Considering the emotional and atmospheric nature of a location can initiate new ways of thinking in architecture, writes Tobi Sobowale
Remembering Jan Morris: ‘Sydney Opera House made me feel like an insect in an ice cream’
Tim Morris recounts time spent with his late cousin, the writer Jan Morris, known for her portraits of cities, from Halifax to Venice and Oxford to New York
Shawn Adams: ‘This book made me reconsider how I view architecture’
AJ Student Prize winner 2020 Shawn Adams reflects on the lessons of Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, by Bernard Rudofsky
Architecture Drawing Prize winners named with extra ‘lockdown’ category
The winners of the 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize have been announced, with subjects ranging from a flat reimagined as a labyrinth to a tower constructed from aeroplane fuselages
Our Brutalist friends in the North
A new book by Simon Phipps takes us on a photographic exploration of Modernist architecture up North, including many Brutalist buildings at risk of demolition
Influences: Ting Jui Brook Lin and ‘Melancholy and Architecture’ by Diogo Seixas Lopes
Ting Jui Brook Lin considers the relationship between melancholia and architecture in a pandemic