William Andrews Nesfield was a military man who designed elaborate schemes that sum up what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
Only a few of his buildings survive, but George Dance the Younger’s visionary designs for London should be better known
The graphic designer and decorative artist mastered any number of crafts and his work deserves to be much better known
The American modernist’s buildings are often easier to admire than love, but his critical stock is undoubtedly on the up again
The Italian modernist who was at his most creative working in historic settings left behind an intensely individual legacy
The BT Tower floats above the city, a reminder of 1960s optimism and a faith in technology that is in short supply today
The Hungarian architect with a penchant for the fantastical left behind a series of highly provocative buildings
The Church of St James the Less was the first building designed by the great Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street. A much-needed restoration is allowing its Italianate interior to shine again
The new Staffordshire volume marks the completion of the revised Buildings of England series – and the end of a publishing era
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
The Reformation was a disaster for British architecture, argues an impressive new book – and the country’s approach to building design has never been the same
William Burges’s transformation of the chapel of Worcester College in Oxford doubles as an all-out assault on the senses and a scathing critique of the previous architect
The Sarabhai family were great patrons of modernist architecture in the city – and Gira Sarabhai’s contribution in particular deserves to be better known
An exhibition at RIBA reveals how, in the 1960s, Architectural Review took a radical stand for planning that focused on people
Deconstructivism wasn’t exactly a movement, but its practitioners – from Frank Gehry to Bernard Tschumi – certainly caused a great stir
A reissue of the architectural critic’s guide to new buildings in the capital is just as fresh as it was 60 years ago
The architect’s highly ornamented designs have more in common with the work of his European peers
Finland’s questing version of modernism, as championed by Alvar Aalto, went hand in hand with the development of social democracy
The mansion block has often reconciled Londoners who can’t afford actual mansions to the realities of apartment-living
The former Dockyard Church in Sheerness has been sensitively restored and converted into a community hub
At RIBA a film by Jim Stephenson shows that architecture can have a long and unpredictable afterlife
Pedestrianisation means that one of London's finest churches is now the centre of attention again
In the pursuit of greater accessibility, institutions are making themselves oddly unapproachable
