Submitting a proposal to planning nowadays feels like slipping into a weird and dysfunctional dimension – it is a bankrupt system that the government should be deeply ashamed of, says John Pardey
The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of architects’ sketches and concept drawings. Today’s sketches are by John Pardey, founding director of John Pardey Architects (jpa)
Architect John Pardey remembers academic Wendy Potts, one of the first female heads of architecture school in the UK, who led the Portsmouth School to success in the 1990s
This artists’ home and studio in the Forest of Dean is one of the most outstanding new houses in Britain this decade, says John Pardey
In the third of a new series looking at influential housing plans, John Pardey chooses an early competition-winning design by Jørn Utzon
Hampshire schools pioneer and RIBA Royal Gold Medallist Colin Stansfield Smith has died aged 80 following a stroke, writes John Pardey
Jørn Utzon was one of the truly great architects of the 20th century, says John Pardey
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review - The Terragni Atlas: Built Architecture By Attilio Terragni, Daniel Libeskind and Paolo Rosselli. Skira, 2004. 276pp. £48
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