Architects
The life and work of the personalities within the profession
Interviews
Amanda Levete: ‘There’s a presumption against tall buildings in this city'
Amanda Levete talks to the AJ about her practice’s contentious 23-storey twisting tower on a former industrial estate in Shoreditch, east London
RIBA Gold Medalist Chipperfield hits out at Gove
David Chipperfield has attacked ‘anti-architect’ education minister Michael Gove after picking up his RIBA Gold Medal last night (10 February)
Chipperfield on his RIBA Gold Medal, his career and the profession
Richard Waite talks to David Chipperfield who joins an architectural elite, which includes Le Corbusier, Edwin Lutyens and Mies van der Rohe, when he picks up his RIBA Gold Medal later today
Obituaries
Obituary: John Madin (1924-2012)
Birmingham Central Library architect John Madin has died at the age of 87
Obituary: Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis (1931- 2011)
Internationally acclaimed Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis has died at the age of 80
From the archives: Imre Makovecz (1935 – 2011)
Read Jonathan Glancey’s 1981 Architectural Review article on Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz who died last week aged 75
Obituary: Sam Potts (1978 to 2011)
Sam Potts, the co-founder of the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA), was one of architecture‘s ‘shining young stars’ writes Alex Scott-Whitby
Docklands pioneer Reg Ward dies
[OBITUARY + COMMENTS] The ‘legendary’ Reg Ward was the Father of the Docklands, writes David Donaghue
