Architecture

Carbuncles and coronets

The Prince of Wales demands that British buildings hark back to the past, but architects will be bullied no more

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Modernists’ royal failure

Observations on republicanism

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From riches to Wags

Palladio's classical aesthetic is now beloved of Prince Charles and Premiership footballers. What would the man himself make of it all?

The past is a foreign country

Today we congratulate ourselves on our multicultural society - yet British architecture was more open to influences from abroad two centuries ago

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War of the worlds

The extraordinary design culture of the Cold War period reflects the twin obsessions of the age: utopia and oblivion

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Sovereignty by stealth

Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation Eyal Weizman Verso, 288pp, £19.99

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Appetite for destruction

Moscow's extraordinary architectural heritage is being wiped out in the ruthless pursuit of a new Russia

Back to the future

Lynsey Hanley cheers the reopening of the refurbished Royal Festival Hall but is it still a people's palace?

A design for life

The surrealist enterprise has been absorbed into our sensually overloaded world

Gild your own cage

Asking inmates to design their fantasy prison has produced some innovative results

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The line of beauty

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures Meyer Schapiro, edited by Linda Seidel University of Chicago Press, 256pp, £25.50 ISBN 978-0226750637

Grand designs

The visionary architect Joseph Gandy was hailed as a genius during his lifetime, but he failed to attract patrons and few of his schemes were ever realised. If they had been, writes Kevin Jackson, London might look rather different today

Give it to us sexy, shiny, and in public!

The Stirling Prize for Architecture is ten years old. What sort of buildings has it rewarded, and what has it ignored? Giles Worsley assesses this most maverick of the arts gongs

A question of style

Jules Lubbock on building politics

Not so kind to Libeskind

Architecture - So the Spiral is dead. The reputation of its architect is also on the decline. Grant Gibson reports

Back to the future

The 1960s architectural collective Archigram had a vision of transforming Britain's drab postwar landscape into a technological wonderland, but it never actually built anything. Thanks to retro-chic, its ideas are now enjoying a revival

The promised land

Israeli town planners hoped to entice people to "instant cities" in the desert hills, but instead created militarised outposts. Mark Mazower examines the role of architecture in the Middle East conflict

Urban jungle

Buildings in the shapes of giant fish, birds or insects are no longer seen as kitsch. As new design technology allows architects to dream up almost any shape they fancy, animal structures have become the height of fashion

Conflict resolution

Architecture week - Daniel Libeskind describes the challenge of designing a building intended as a commemoration of war but informed by our endless struggle for peace

Height of fashion

They grew up in the postwar cities, offering a clean, air-conditioned respite and a cheeseburger. But, says Annabel Jane Wharton, the Hilton Hotels were also designed for political impact