Superurbanism

Paul Finch has spent more than four decades at the centre of British architectural culture, editing key publications, chairing CABE and co-founding the World Architecture Festival. Tim spoke to him about architectural criticism and about his friend the late Jeremy Melvin

Fernando Sordo Madaleno de Haro is a principal at Sordo Madaleno, the third generation of his family to work in a practice founded by his grandfather Juan Sordo Madaleno. In 2023 he established its London studio. Tim spoke to him about their work in Mexico, Hungary and Saudi Arabia.

Manifesta is an itinerant European Biennale and art-as-catalyst-for-development event that launched in 1996. In its 30th year, it arrived in the Ruhr Valley. Its founding director Hedwig Fijen and its first creative mediator and architect / planner Josep Bohigas spoke to Tim Abrahams.

An Fonteyne is the Brussels-based co-founder of noAarchitecten and a leading light in the design consortium that is designing Kanal Centre Pompidou. In the second part of their interview, she spoke to Tim Abrahams about the origins of retrofit.

Liam Young is an Australian-born architect, film director and artist who co-runs the M.A. in Fiction and Entertainment at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles. He spoke to Tim about his new show at the Barbican and the death of 60s environmentalist utopias.