Simon Sadler

Recent books on London housing estates, design activism, the legal rights of rivers, makeshift cities, urban edgelands, and more.

The fourth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

Recent books on architecture and democracy, the right to housing, race and public monuments, the search for a forgotten woman architect, and more.

The first installment of a narrative survey in which practitioners and educators share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.

In the ’60s, Archigram used the term “zoom” to describe the excitement of being modern. Now it’s a digital platform that exemplifies a deregulated capitalism built upon public infrastructure.

The second installment of a narrative survey focusing on the massive move to emergency online instruction.

The remarkable career of David Bowie was defined by restless transformation. His passing is a prompt to consider the curious nature of change in an era that’s given up on progress.

Half a century ago Charles Moore was a rising architect and Ivy League academic. He was also the first in the field to look seriously at Disneyland — and he liked what he saw.

The magical thinking and many contradictions of the TED Talks — and the implicit threats to design and education.

Finding common ground in the extraordinary careers of Steve Jobs and Rem Koolhaas, both driven “to learn about the world through the attempt to change it.”