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2026 9

  1. Open Call: New Fascisms, Counter-Worlds
  2. Thirst
  3. Behind Bars, Italy’s Securitarian Project of Debilitation Takes Shape
  4. How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison
  5. Lives Fragmented and Pushed Back at the Latvian Border
  6. Disrupting Lines, Defining Balochistan
  7. Bridging West Papua through Dispossession
  8. Europe Expands Its Carceral Edge into Albania
  9. From NATO Base to Prison (And Back Again?) in Ter Apel’s Hinterland

2025 14

  1. Carceral Sinks: A Silent Toxic Jail Boom in the US
  2. Between Architectural Monstrosity and Speculative Utopia
  3. Checkpoint City
  4. The Korean Border’s Unintended Wilderness
  5. Vulnerability is Power
  6. Behind Kamathipura’s Closed Doors
  7. All the World’s a Prison
  8. Mexico’s Industrial Progress is Leaving Workers Behind
  9. Bangladesh’s Island Warehouse for Rohingya Refugees
  10. A Bunkered Land
  11. An Artificial Imaginary
  12. A Prison Around Your Ankle
  13. New York State’s Continuums of Containment
  14. Marx and Degrowth Architecture

2024 20

  1. Weaving Vessels for Emerging Climates
  2. Failed Architecture IRL
  3. Failed Architecture’s Top Fails
  4. Keep Failed from Failing
  5. Open Call: Everywhere Walls, Borders, Prisons
  6. Earth, Matter
  7. Tacheles in Ruins
  8. Systematic Thirst: An Interview with Muna Dajani
  9. Drying Up Palestine by Peter Snowdon and Rima Essa
  10. The Jail That Lives Inside Us: An Interview With Raed Andoni
  11. War on the Mushaa’: Noura Alkhalili and Jumana Manna in Conversation
  12. Foragers by Jumana Manna
  13. Spaces of Exception by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny
  14. Camp-space: The exceptional duality of the Palestine refugee camp
  15. Besieged: Home, Land, Time, Water
  16. The Petrocracy Underfoot
  17. Buildings Born Ruins: Philosophy and Architecture After the Apocalypse
  18. The Mole, The Snake, and the Acritarch
  19. Enough? Architecture and the Sufficiency Imperative
  20. Your Home’s Skeleton Wants to Tell You Something

2023 9

  1. As Jakarta Sinks, the Rising Sea Presents a Convenient Scapegoat
  2. What the Struggle Around California’s Hidden Lake Says About the Climate Crisis
  3. Statement on the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
  4. Nuclear Power Created the City of Oak Ridge, But it’s Also Destroying It
  5. Just White Noise
  6. The Human Cost of Concrete
  7. India’s Hindu Right-Wing is Using Heritage to Undermine Muslim Identity
  8. Open Call: The Climate Changed Special Series
  9. This 19th Century Pastry Chef Predicted Architecture’s Crisis of Values

2022 12

  1. “In and against an environment”: Dhanveer Singh Brar on the Sonic Ecologies of 21C Black Music
  2. Speer in Qatar: An Interview with Nicholas McGeehan (Human Rights Watch)
  3. Trads Forget the Past at Their Peril
  4. Smart Streetlights are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities
  5. The Hidden History of Tehran’s Red-Light District
  6. The Superarchitecture of Amazon
  7. Aravena’s Venice Biennale Installation Obscures the Historical Struggles of Mapuche Communities
  8. A Cage by Another Name
  9. Architects, Developers, Construction Companies: Don’t Take Part in Amsterdam’s “Erotic Center”
  10. Lahan Becek: Beyond Terraformation, Towards Wet Lands of Opportunity
  11. The Problem with Neighbors
  12. Stop Making Sense: Refusing the Algorithmic City

2021 27

  1. Red Light District Under Control
  2. How Sukarno’s Games of the New Emerging Forces Briefly Modeled a Vision for a Postcolonial World
  3. Failed Architecture Introduces Horizontal Structure, Announces Its Three New Organisers
  4. Call the Architectural Workers Hotline now!
  5. From Low-Income Landscapes to Black-Powered Towers: A Conversation with Walter Hood
  6. El Vacío de los Héroes
  7. Adaptive Refuse
  8. Stories on Earth: Challenging the Human/Non-Human Dichotomy
  9. Any Challenge to the UK’s Hostile Environment Has to Start by Exposing Its Data Infrastructure
  10. Mapping Algorithms Are Failing to Address Urban Inequalities in the Global South
  11. Rideshare Apps Are Making Indonesia’s Public Spaces Rigid and Impersonal
  12. Inflate a Building’s Value by €120 Million with This One Simple Formula
  13. The Peace Walls at the Centre of Recent Unrest in Northern Ireland
  14. The Housing of Asylum Seekers in Former Military Barracks Must End
  15. Israel’s Flawed Translation Technologies Treat the Palestinian Body Like a Glitch
  16. Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank Extends to the Electromagnetic Spectrum
  17. She Wants Your Attention, She’s the Voice of the City
  18. The Empty Houses Helping Kozarac’s Diaspora Hold on to Their Hometown
  19. “Trads Are Modernists and We’re the Real Trads”: Dismantling the Traditional Architecture Movement
  20. Delivery Workers Expose the Troubling Ideology of Public Space in Bogota
  21. Often Architects Confuse Proximity to Power With Power: A Conversation with Marianela D’Aprile
  22. Mass Timber in the Age of Mass Extinction
  23. This Very Normal Dutch Architecture Firm Remains Responsible for Designing a Deportation Machine
  24. Darknet Markets Are Bringing More Kinds of Drugs to Many More Places Than Ever Before
  25. Transparent Pod, Laptop, Bed, State-of-the-Art Webcam: How COVID-19 Changed the Online Sex Industry
  26. All Design Is Political, Not All Politics Is Design
  27. Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism

2020 32

  1. Chile’s Establishment Have Just Discovered a Concern for Santiago’s Heritage After Years of Negligence
  2. Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving
  3. NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital
  4. Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping
  5. Barricades, Boulders, and How LA’s Public Space Became a Battleground for the Commons
  6. How British Colonial Architecture Excluded Pakistani Women From the Public Sphere
  7. Betraying the Profession: Design Labour Against Technocracy
  8. Baku’s Urban Growth Machine Pits Residents Against Construction Workers
  9. How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe
  10. Let’s Remind Architecture and Design Organisations of Their Support for Black Lives Matter
  11. OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise
  12. After the Gay Bar, The Uncertain Future of Queer Space
  13. Claiming Cinematic Space: Agnès Varda’s Pioneering Take on Women’s Urban Experience
  14. Is The Freeport Set to Become The Defining Architecture of Post-Brexit Britain?
  15. Before ArchDaily and Dezeen, There Was Aline Saarinen
  16. Stories on Earth: A Collective Voice for the Human and Non-Human
  17. Digital Contact Tracing is the New “Smart” Frontier of Urban Surveillance
  18. Architecture is Yet to Come to Terms with Trans Bodies
  19. India’s Dramatic Smart City Construction Boom Ignores a Huge Migrant Workforce Toiling Backstage
  20. A Construction Mistake in Rome That Created a Lake and United a Neighborhood
  21. “Architecture is Never Non-Political”: Michael Sorkin
  22. The City and the City and Coronavirus
  23. Failed Architecture Opens Satellites in Beirut, Bogotá, Istanbul and New York
  24. The Intentional Dilapidation of Historical Buildings Is Not Neglect, It’s a Subversive Act
  25. How The Urban Eclipsed the City: An Interview with Ross Exo Adams
  26. The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?
  27. We Participate, They Profit
  28. Singapore’s Scentless Growth is Built on the Brutal Extraction of Cambodian Sand and Imported Labour
  29. Coming to Terms with a Growth-Free Future
  30. Architects Declare a Climate Emergency But Can They Avoid Real Estate’s Greenwashing Tendencies?
  31. Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture
  32. Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing

2019 25

  1. A Decade of Failed Architecture
  2. How the British Buried Their Imperial History Along with Wembley Stadium
  3. Architecture’s Role in Erasing the Guggenheim’s Ongoing Legacy of Violent Extraction
  4. The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible
  5. 99 Reasons to Support Independent Architecture Criticism in 2020
  6. When Architects Work for People not Profit: Revolution and the Architecture Workers Movement in Portugal
  7. Work Issues From an Architecture Office
  8. Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation
  9. Where the Image Flows: How Sidewalk Labs’ Public Relations Came to Dominate Journalism
  10. The Missing Bodies in Architecture’s Talk of Embodied Energy
  11. The Radical Culture of Night Shops and Beauty Salons
  12. Degrowth is About Redistribution by Design, Not by Collapse
  13. The Far Right’s Obsession with Modern Architecture
  14. Death to the Calling: A Job in Architecture Is Still a Job
  15. The Deceptive Platform Utopianism of Google’s Sidewalk Labs
  16. Why Haven’t British Architects Unionised?
  17. Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge
  18. Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”
  19. Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable
  20. From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model
  21. Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need
  22. The Real Estate Sector is Using Algorithms to Work Out the Best Places to Gentrify
  23. Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”
  24. Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities
  25. Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment

2018 26

  1. Dear Jean Nouvel, Please Don’t “Revitalise” the Algiers Casbah
  2. Stop Seeing Climate Change as an “Opportunity” for Architecture
  3. The Cities of Vilnius: Past Ideologies, New Consumerism
  4. Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of Its Own Radical Potential
  5. Beirut’s Architecture of Erasure Countered by Literary Placemaking
  6. The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment
  7. University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy
  8. City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality
  9. Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67
  10. London Becomes Museum
  11. Photo Essay: Windows in Crisis – The Decline of Athens’ Commercial Cityscape
  12. Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht
  13. A Conversation with Keller Easterling
  14. Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation
  15. Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan
  16. Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures
  17. Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry
  18. What If Architects Were to Embrace, Rather Than Ignore, a Building’s Future?
  19. How J.G. Ballard’s Science Fiction Tells the Future of Our Privatized Cities
  20. Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener
  21. In Conquering the Sea, Singapore Erases Its History
  22. Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels
  23. Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape
  24. Mallification: The Vengeful Return of the Mall in the 21st Century
  25. The Invisible Wall of Lampedusa: Landscaping Europe’s Outer Frontier
  26. Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika

2017 22

  1. Gamespace Urbanism: City-Building Games and Radical Simulations
  2. Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”
  3. An Abandoned Aquarium in the Lebanese City of Batroun Still Shows Signs of Life
  4. Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?
  5. Kevin Lynch and the GPS: Predicting the Culture of Navigation in 1960
  6. Ultraviolence in Representation: The Enduring Myth of the Thamesmead Estate
  7. How Amsterdam Resisted the Sellout of its City Centre
  8. Meet Our New Editors
  9. Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?
  10. Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre
  11. How The Student Hotel Makes Millennials Pay for Amsterdam’s Housing Shortage
  12. The Tragedy of De Certeau’s Godlike Voyeur ft. Jamie Foxx
  13. A Hilariously Embarrassing Housing Crisis
  14. A Failure Upon Completion, Heidelberg’s ‘Concrete Ghetto’ Still Stands 45 Years On
  15. Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side
  16. The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political
  17. Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media
  18. Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed
  19. ‘Human, All Too Human’: A Critique on the Modulor
  20. Choreographing Ankara’s Airport Road
  21. Wheatley-Provident Hospital: Kansas City’s Own Ruin
  22. A Journey to the Edge of Britain: Exploring the Thames Estuary

2016 37

  1. The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified
  2. The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture
  3. Remote-Control Architecture: Norman Foster’s Rwandan Droneport
  4. Three Strikes, You’re Out: Habitat III’s Doomed Urban Agenda
  5. Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality
  6. Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London
  7. Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad
  8. Colonising the Street: How Greenpoint’s Retail Newcomers Market Authenticity
  9. Berlin Marzahn: Social Housing with Marquis Hawkes
  10. Photo Essay: Brooklyn’s New Everyday Architecture for the 1%
  11. Vienna’s Social Housing Legacy: Rethinking Value
  12. The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means
  13. Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels
  14. What’s An Architecture Biennale Good for Anyway?
  15. Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies
  16. Instagramming Architecture
  17. Photo Essay: Albania’s Concrete Skeletons
  18. Robert Moses, Pig-Ears and the Camden Bench: How Architectural Hostility Became Transparent
  19. Spaces of Otherness: Ruins Through a Feminist Lens
  20. Slum Porn: Urban Misery as Catchy Imagery
  21. Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism
  22. The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space
  23. Why the Pop-up Hype Isn’t Going to Save Our Cities
  24. What the City of the Future Looks Like in the Next Economy
  25. The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley
  26. What the City of the Future Looks Like If We Don’t Change Course
  27. The Future of Work: Amsterdam’s Vijzelbank
  28. On Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza
  29. Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy
  30. Neoliberal Shock Therapy: The Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans
  31. Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons
  32. What this MVRDV Rendering Says About Architecture and the Media
  33. How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals
  34. Dredging the Dutch City, Part 2: Bijlmer
  35. Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam
  36. FA Film: Orphan
  37. Orphan City

2015 37

  1. 8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture in 2016
  2. Lichtenberg, Berlin: A Sketch from the Ground
  3. Photo Essay: Amman’s Forgotten Cinemas
  4. The Best Ad in History: Capturing Caracas
  5. Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’
  6. Richard Neutra’s Therapeutic Architecture
  7. Capital Cairo: A Regime of Graphics
  8. Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh
  9. Photo Essay: DORP
  10. The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare
  11. Did Suburbia Fail?
  12. Photo Essay: The Most German City in Brazil
  13. The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront
  14. Nothing is Permanent: The Imaginative Power of Ruins
  15. Photo Essay: The Lost Views of Space City
  16. San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture
  17. Filth: Capturing Concrete Ecologies
  18. Quotidian Architectures of Istanbul
  19. Walking the Decline: Sheffield’s Collectivist Architecture
  20. Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects
  21. Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution
  22. Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam
  23. Belgrade Waterfront: An Investor’s Vision of National Significance
  24. New York City’s Island of the Dead
  25. Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense
  26. Orgreave 30 Years on: An Uncontaminated Name?
  27. Photo Essay: Jing Jin City
  28. Photo Essay: Metropole
  29. Cairo’s Metropolitan Landscape: Segregation Extreme
  30. Photo Essay: Utopia by the Plot
  31. Photo Essay: On the Resilience of Ugliness
  32. Tbilisi’s Rose Revolution Square: A Political Showcase
  33. Redefining ‘Heritage’: Agra’s Forgotten Bastis
  34. Gangs of New York: The Battle for 5 Pointz
  35. Dawson’s Heights: South London Sublime
  36. Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence
  37. Amsterdam’s Former Totems of Dissent

2014 50

  1. Photo Essay: Construction Sights
  2. A Town is a Machine for Movement: Alpine Modernism
  3. The Port Authority Bus Terminal: Myth, Mystery, Mess
  4. Houses as Money: The Georgian Townhouse in London
  5. Photo Essay: Ebola Curfew in Freetown
  6. Photo Essay: After Schengen
  7. Concrete Experience: Bakema’s TrouwAmsterdam
  8. Istanbul’s Fading Metabolism
  9. Le Corbusier’s Vision for Fascist Addis Ababa
  10. What is the Legacy of the Watergate Hotel?
  11. Photo Essay: The Ferrier Estate
  12. A Warning to Lisbon: The Fight for Meaning in Martim Moniz
  13. Insuring the City
  14. Material Senescence
  15. Tropical Babel
  16. Vacancy Studies: Designing Temporariness
  17. Photo Essay: Frameworks
  18. The Ironic Loss of the Postmodern BEST Store Facades
  19. Buildings Must Die
  20. Spreepark: Berlin’s Sleeping Beauty
  21. Notes on La Maddalena
  22. A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972
  23. Mortal Cities: The Irreversible Disappearance of Mostar
  24. A Memorial to the Highs and Lows of Social Housing
  25. The Shame of Ljubljana: Plečnik’s Abandoned Stadium in Full Bloom
  26. Architecture as Disaster: Business as Usual
  27. The Metamorphosis of Post-Genocide Kigali
  28. Hungary’s Identity Crisis Fought in Concrete and Bronze
  29. Explore Everything: A Subversive Urban Critique
  30. The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism
  31. Lelystad Zuid – Never So Bright
  32. Cairo New Towns – From Desert Cities to Deserted Cities
  33. Once a Colonial Hotel, Now an Inhabited Ruin
  34. Mortal Cities and Forgotten Monuments
  35. Madness and Method at St. Elizabeths
  36. Capturing Transience: Urban Exploration Photography
  37. Baffled by Belfast
  38. Peaux-Meaux: The Postmodern in New Orleans
  39. Cleaning Out the Rat Holes of Zagreb’s Flower Square
  40. Paradise Lost: Birmingham’s Central Library and the Battle over Brutalism
  41. ArchDaily and Architecture Criticism
  42. Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall
  43. FA Workshop: Amsterdam’s Felix Meritis
  44. Resisting Reconstruction in Post-war Sarajevo
  45. Function Follows Form: How Berlin Turns Horror into Beauty
  46. Ankara’s Iron Cage
  47. Changing Times, Changing Designs: Council Offices Then and Now
  48. The Case: MoMA vs. Middle-Aged Men
  49. Behind Four Walls: Barcelona’s Lost Utopia
  50. Two Banks Shaping the African Skyline

2013 57

  1. San Francisco’s NEMA: Parvenu Luxury, Surrealistically Marketed
  2. Failed Policy, Successful Architecture: Selfmade City Istanbul
  3. Bypassing Gentrification, the Raging Russian Way
  4. The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut
  5. The Downfall of London’s Streets in the Sky
  6. Porto’s Ruinous Circle
  7. The New Monuments of Taksim Square or ‘Ruins in Reverse’
  8. Failed Architecture Tracked Changes at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale
  9. Who Determines the Future of the Past?
  10. Privatized Publicness: Post-Communist Public Space in Bucharest
  11. Brussels’ Administrative Centre: An Uncontrollable Urban Tumor?
  12. FA#12: Former Dutch Ministry of the Interior
  13. São Paulo’s Bridge That Widens Distances
  14. FA Workshop: Rapla and Tallinn
  15. Photo Essay: Rapla KEK, Estonia
  16. UNStudio Tried Riding the Open Source Wave, but Failed
  17. Is the Architectural Profession Still Relevant?
  18. Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia
  19. The Story Behind Failure: Copenhagen’s Business District Ørestad
  20. In the Glasgow Media the Death of a High Rise is Marketed as Progress
  21. Architecture on the Move: Refugee Dwellings in Amsterdam
  22. Photo Essay: Hiroshima’s Motomachi
  23. Neighbourhood Forums as Mediums of Direct Democracy in Istanbul
  24. There’s a Generation Shift Occurring in Our Assessment of Modernist Architecture
  25. Saviour or Parasite?
  26. New York’s Worst Architecture – The Bukharian House
  27. Monte Barreto: a New Center for Havana?
  28. Gurgaon’s Gateway Tower: A Symbol of Unsustainability
  29. The Mysterious Adventures of the Boy in the Yellow Cap
  30. FA#10: Beyond Failure
  31. FA#11: A Brutal(ist) Assault on Amsterdam’s Inner City?
  32. A City Formerly Known as Sadness – Tin Shui Wai
  33. FA Workshop: Re-imagining Campanhã, Porto
  34. What’s Happening in Istanbul? A Prologue
  35. Is Failure Central to the Architectural Profession?
  36. Failure, Narrative, Politics & Architecture
  37. Why L.A. is Important
  38. (Counter) Productive Dystopia
  39. Public Space in Cairo: A Fragmented Archipelago
  40. Towards a Design-City (Post-Design-Capital)
  41. Bijlmer: a Reputation Blown to Smithereens?
  42. The Rebuilding of a ‘Hornet’s Nest’ in Kaliningrad
  43. Documenting the Myths of Modernism
  44. La Maison Tropicale: From Failure in Niamey to Masterpiece in NYC
  45. The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica
  46. The Poetry of Decay
  47. The Day Architects Stopped Reading Newspapers
  48. Architects Talking Architecture
  49. FA Workshop: Sofia’s National Palace of Culture
  50. Squatter Families in East Jerusalem
  51. Game Over for Architects?
  52. Ouagadougou’s Innercity Savanna
  53. School’s Out: A Modernist School Building Has to Go
  54. The New Wave: Drifting Towards the Shores of Simplification
  55. This is Not a Gateway Festival 2013
  56. Back to the Future in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer Estate
  57. Kai van Hasselt Responds to Owen Hatherley

2012 10

  1. The (In)visible Architecture of Illegalised Refugees
  2. An Artist’s Impression: Larissa Fassler on Berlin’s Kottbusser Tor
  3. Nottingham: ‘Early Martyr of Highway Engineering’
  4. Wouter Vanstiphout on Architecture and Politics
  5. The City as a Private Enterprise
  6. How Business Shapes Our Cities
  7. Owen Hatherley in Defense of Post-War Planning
  8. FA Workshop: Rotterdam’s Zalmhaven
  9. Failed Architecture #07: Ruin Porn
  10. Excavating the Future in Cardross, Scotland

2011 12

  1. Failed Architecture #06: Concrete Failures
  2. Failed Architecture #05: Riots and Architecture
  3. Masterplan for the City of Skopje
  4. Failed Architecture #04: Copenhagen’s Domus Vista
  5. Nakagin Capsule Tower, Shimbashi, Tokyo
  6. Moscow’s Narkomfin Building
  7. Reactions to UK Riots
  8. Detroit Wild City: Reborn Center or Dying Heart?
  9. Failed Architecture #03: Failure as a Matter of Politics
  10. Failed Architecture #02: Taste and Modernist Architecture
  11. The Downfall of British Modernist Architecture
  12. Failed Architecture #01: Preservation as a Matter of Urgency

2010 3

  1. The Nazis and the US May Be Gone But the Devil Remains
  2. Sanzhi UFO Houses, Taiwan
  3. Berlin’s Palast der Republik