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Werner Sobek talks to Blueprint
11 December 2013The architect, structural engineer and president of the Stuttgart Institute of Sustainability talks about whether high-tech and sustainability are compatible
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'Urban activist' Trenton Oldfield wins deportation appeal
9 December 2013Founder 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
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Michelle Cornwell wins our poster of Preston Bus Station
9 December 2013Preston resident wins poster of brutalist building designed by BDP and recently saved from demolition by being given Grade II listed status by English Heritage
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Book review: Adhocism - The Case for Improvisation
9 December 2013By Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver; Published by MIT Press, £17.95; Review by Thomas Wensing
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Review: Pop Art Design at the Barbican Art Gallery
5 December 2013Pop Art Design is on at the Barbican Art Gallery, London 22 October-9 February; Review by Corinne Julius
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Interview: Paul Smith, singular individual
4 December 2013With a major design retrospective of Paul Smith now on at the Design Museum, we catch up with him in his studio and try to identify the exact design DNA that underpins his huge success
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A sneak preview of the next issue of Blueprint magazine
21 November 2013Blueprint assistant editor Shumi Bose on what to expect from the next issue, including OMA's De Rotterdam building
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Philip Pullman finds treasure in a new book of Soviet illustration
19 November 2013Children of the Soviet Union had a marvellous treasure trove of illustrated books at their disposal, a wonderful collection of modern art and expressive design that somehow made it past the censorious eye of the authorities. Author Philip Pullman dips into a new book that has brought many of the best examples together, and is swept away by the experience
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Adaptation Lab explores the impact of technology on architecture
18 November 2013A week-long series of events explores the emerging negotiations between technology and architectural design
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Golden Boys: the art of Elmgreen & Dragset
14 November 2013Preferring to see themselves as artworld outsiders, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset began their collaboration in 1995 by subverting the idea of the white cube. Having recently done the same for the bellicose statues in Trafalgar Square they are now taking on the V&A and its collection, through the medium of a fictional architect’s apartment
