Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Archio’s much-needed affordable homes in south London prioritise robust details and community input to squeeze the most from a tight budget

Vocation, enabled by skills and experience, drove Toby Pear to NGO Article 25, and work in ‘one of the most beautiful countries’, Niger

Formative years in a developing Milton Keynes gave Simon Phipps an awareness of forms in space and time, summed up in his photograph of Trawsfynydd nuclear power station

Huge, anonymised Cloud-based datasets could transform not just architecture but the role of architects: Jan-Carlos Kucharek reports from the the Autodesk University annual conference

The photographer developed a love of the subterranean when living and working in Toronto – is that what prompted her to send us her shot of AHMM’s basement office?

Berlin architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke see their project for the Technical University at Braunschweig take the prize for viable, sustainable and cultural design

Green facades, environmental materials and modern architecture as viewed through windows: three fascinating books packed with valuable information

A photograph of the Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan, puts Tadao Ando’s modernism through a postmodern lens

There’s a distinct theme of preservation in this selection of must-reads, looking at historic materials, restoration and retrofitting, and why we should design out hazardous materials

Capturing the spatial geometry of her Cubist-inspired studio work led architect-turned-photographer Kirsta Jahnke to abstracted close-ups – drones give her the chance to employ this approach to capture entire landscapes