• Devil in the detail: James Cauty's dystopia in miniature

    10 January 2014

    With the help of 5,000 police officers and a clutch of journalists, artist James Cauty has created the aftermath of riot and mayhem, complete with a burning church, collapsed overpass and, er, a cow in a block of flats... All the figures are miniatures but, far from the rural idyll of old model villages, Cauty’s diorama makes a political statement about societal freedom and state control. After opening under the arches at Hoxton Station, Aftermath Dislocation Principle Parts I & II can are on show at Piet Hein Eek, Eindhoven until 15 March

  • Author Nathan Silver responds to review of his book Adhocism

    8 January 2014

    Co-author, along with Charles Jencks, of the recently reissued book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation criticises review by Thomas Wensing, published in issue 330 of Blueprint, calling it 'a catalogue of false suppositions'.

  • Venice Architecture Biennale 10 best pavilions

    5 January 2014

    The Blueprint editorial team chooses 10 of the best pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale

  • FAT to disband after 23 years

    16 December 2013

    After 23 years of practice, on December 16 2014, the influential and iconoclastic London-based office of FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) has announced its decision to disband in 2014. In Blueprint’s 30th anniversary issue (Sept/Oct 2013) we revisited the first time FAT appeared on our cover, as the (very) young turks of 1997. We republish founding partner Sam Jacobs’ reflections on FAT — and architecture — then and now.

  • Interview: graphic design legend Peter Saville talks to Liz Farrelly

    13 December 2013

    Graphic designer doyen Peter Saville was presented with the London Design Festival's Medal, the first creative to receive it. Blueprint talks to the man about his career and ethos and also asks some of his contemporaries, colleagues and acolytes to choose their favourite piece of Saville's work

  • Erik Spiekermann on the possible perils of life online

    13 December 2013

    It may be smart to set the temperature of your house remotely and food shop online, but with the security services looking at everything we do, turning on heat and lights at odd hours, ordering some sort of foods, or reading stuff in foreign languages may finish up with you being accused of being a terrorist... Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann

  • Werner Sobek talks to Blueprint

    11 December 2013

    The architect, structural engineer and president of the Stuttgart Institute of Sustainability talks about whether high-tech and sustainability are compatible

  • 'Urban activist' Trenton Oldfield wins deportation appeal

    9 December 2013

    Founder of This Is Not A Gateway, who was arrested and jailed for disrupting the Oxford v Cambridge boat race wins right to stay in UK

  • Michelle Cornwell wins our poster of Preston Bus Station

    9 December 2013

    Preston resident wins poster of brutalist building designed by BDP and recently saved from demolition by being given Grade II listed status by English Heritage

  • Book review: Adhocism - The Case for Improvisation

    9 December 2013

    By Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver; Published by MIT Press, £17.95; Review by Thomas Wensing