Eleanor Young

Yasmeen Lari was Pakistan’s first female architect, yet her concern is not the limelight but equipping her countrymen to build their way out of the devastating effects of poverty and climate change. She tells us more as she celebrates the award of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

From Johannesburg to New York, Lesley Lokko’s writing, teaching, speaking and curation of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale has engendered debate on cultural identity in architecture. Now it has won her the Royal Gold Medal as an architectural change maker

Apprenticeships have many advantages for both practices and students, but setting up a scheme can be daunting. Experience reveals some tips and the pitfalls to look out for, finds Eleanor Young

Invisible Studio and Mole Architects have designed a simple but flexible ‘big roof’ that makes an affordable work and storage space for charity Forest School Camps

What architects need to know about the Labour government’s expected changes on housing and planning

Architect-trained Alex Thomas explains how he discovered making, why he set his heart on switching to it, and how he finally set up Timber Workshop

How do architects set about consulting the public, particularly young people? Can they go further and engage with them? Can architects work alongside them, so they are part of the doing rather than having something done to them?

Mat Barnes, who enjoys the richness that references and reminiscences bring to architectural design, explains his approach. Plus Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio on the way stories make sense of buildings

Angharad Palmer on seaweed, being a change maker and embedding a culture of regenerative design at Hawkins\Brown. The podcast also features regenerative-design thinkers Ben Bridgens of Newcastle University and Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architects

Stories concerning the Building Safety Act and other repercussions of the Grenfell Tower fire were among the most read this year