Amanda Levete

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    Rulers were made for…

    2010-12-17T00:00:00

    You can’t measure the value of design with any kind of measuring stick - and anyone who suggests you can deserves a rap on the knuckles

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    Why we should train architects on the job

    2010-11-19T00:00:00

    Higher education is going to become increasingly inaccessible, so why don’t we create ways of training while working

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    Second best is no good at all: impressions from the Labour party conference

    2010-10-08T00:00:00

    Fresh from the Labour conference, Amanda Levete muses on the pointlessness of second place, the deviousness of committees and the role of a great leader in making great buildings

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    Donkey work and urban planning

    2010-09-17T00:00:00

    A Kenyan island with an unusual freight-transportation system has inspired Amanda Levete to think again about designing for cities without cars

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    How does the state imagine?

    2010-07-23T00:00:00

    The next decade is going to reinterpret, reorganise and abolish much of our familiar world, so we’ll need creative thinking from government. Which could be a problem

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    Up for the cup

    2010-06-17T18:05:00

    Goal celebrations are brilliant expressions of national identity (but not you, Clint Dempsey). How does architecture reflect where a nation has come from and where it’s going, asks Amanda Levete

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    Choice in an age of uncertainty

    2010-04-30T00:00:00

    These days it seems nothing can be taken for granted, whether its simple travel plans or the fact that the Lib Dems are bound to come third. Which can be a good thing

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    Amanda Levete: What Japan can teach us

    2010-03-05T00:00:00

    Or, as the atlases have it, Japan: a country that endlessly contradicts itself, but does so with such artistry that it hardly matters. But what can it teach us

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    Amanda Levete: why architects know best

    2010-01-22T00:00:00

    Give Britain’s best architects the final say in what gets built. Amanda Levete explains why this modest proposal is neither elitist, utopian, nor politically impossible

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    They know how to use the sky box

    2009-11-06T00:00:00

    That’s just one of the benefits of having children. But the struggle to combine work and reproduction is rewarding, exhausting and different for everybody

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    The academy in peril

    2009-10-02T00:00:00

    If you find yourself with a spare hour in Piccadilly, go and see Anish Kapoor at the RA: it’s disturbing, even violent, but it has a lot to say about how art fits into buildings

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    Where are we now? How architecture is understood and consumed

    2009-07-24T00:00:00

    The way architecture is produced, consumed and understood in the 21st century has been transformed – for better and worse – by digital technology

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    Dining and designing

    2009-06-26T00:00:00

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs are consumed by the eye in the same way that food is consumed by the organs of digestion. And in both cases, the important thing is that they’re tasty

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    We can't afford cheap and nasty

    2009-05-15T00:00:00

    The recession is turning us, and our politicians, into mean, short-sighted people. And this is exactly the right way to make sure it lasts a long, long time

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    Australia's grand opera house

    2009-04-09T00:00:00

    Sydney is finally going to restore Jørn Utzon’s awesome opera house to his original design – but there is a big price to pay

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    Jan and me: Amanda Levete on Jan Kaplicky

    2009-03-06T00:00:00

    Jan Kaplicky, who died in January, was a visionary architect whose creativity drove him to test the bounds of the possible, says his former wife and design partner

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    Nothing could be better

    2008-12-19T00:00:00

    Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going

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    A question of charisma

    2008-09-19T00:00:00

    Some regenerated areas become fizzing centres of creative energy whereas others are, well, a bit dull. But what is it that makes the difference? Amanda Levete has a theory …

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    The uses of adversity

    2008-07-11T00:00:00

    The Great Depression brought destitution to millions. It also transformed politics and society and produced great architecture. Amanda Levete asks: could the present downturn do the same?

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    Darwin and design

    2008-05-09T00:00:00

    A week in the Pacific archipelago that inspired the theory of evolution also inspires thoughts about survival and extinction in the architectural world

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