Architects Journal
Sam Jacob
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'It's in start-up spaces we see our contemporary selves manufactured'
2-May-2013
[OFFICES] Essay 3: Sam Jacob, FAT -
Venice preview: FAT Architects
16-Aug-2012
The fake and the authentic -
Architecture, Philip K Dick and Science-fiction Film
4-Aug-2011
Architecture has been both creator and muse for science fiction. David Fontin’s new book dissects this shifting dynamic, writes Sam Jacob -
Sam Jacob: Underground Bunker
10-Sep-2009
Sam Jacob of Fat Architecture selects the Underground Bunker -
Emancipation by design
28-May-2009
When Sam Jacob hears the word ‘culture’ he reaches for his candy dispenser gun -
Charles is right... but that doesn't mean the architects are wrong
13-May-2009
Beyond the Prince Charles debate lie brave new ideologies, argues Sam Jacob -
Clean lines
16-Apr-2009
Sam Jacob on why dirt is so ‘real’ for rock and rollers – and architects -
The architecture of the drug trade
27-Mar-2009
Sam Jacob forays into marijuana grow houses and the landscapes of drug use -
Foam and the end of materiality
13-Mar-2009
Sam Jacob digests the aerated structure of his Starbucks latte and Thatcherite ice cream -
Sam Jacob on Tom Karen, the designer of the Raleigh Chopper
11-Mar-2009
Sam Jacob is beguiled by the designer of the Raleigh Chopper and the marble run toy -
What we can learn from Acme Corp's flawed anvils
26-Feb-2009
Design died in Wile E Coyote’s vast cartoon desert of the un-won West, thinks Sam Jacob -
The Popemobile is a detachable piece of 'symbolic infrastructure'
30-Jan-2009
What His Holiness can teach us about blue-screen thinking -
Structuring the fourth dimension
22-Jan-2009
Sam Jacob takes a geometric acid trip, courtesy of Cecil Balmond’s installations -
Phantom lighthouses and domestic detritus
16-Jan-2009
Sam Jacob finds nothing poetic about mass-storage facilities -
Why your Christmases will always be white
12-Dec-2008
Sam Jacob on the fabricated landscape of a dying season -
Parametricism? How quaint
27-Nov-2008
Parametric architecture’s abstract hubris lies in ruins, but Sam Jacob finds it all rather picturesque -
The flooding of Mies' Farnsworth House should agitate us
1-Oct-2008
Seeing Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, up to its neck in floodwater is enough to bring out obsessive-compulsive symptoms in even the most relaxed of us.
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