PUBLIC SPACE

JUNKSPACE

By Rem Koolhaas

A jeremiad about architecture's supplication before shopping and engineering and an underlining of the profession's complicity in its own spiralling irrelevance. Read more

THE PNYX AND THE AGORA

By Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett argues here that the theatre is as much a pivotal public space as the town square, a venue in which reality is heightened. Read more

PUBLIC SPACE

By Wim Cuyvers

Control, rules, the role of economy and leisure: Wim Cuyvers raises a myriad of issues around public space. Who is it for and what do they do with it, in it, to it? Read more

FREESPACE MANIFESTO

By Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara

'FREESPACE describes a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture's agenda, focusing on the space itself.' Read more