Stephen Bayley

Architecture for all occasions

Hugh Pearman examines a wide range of building types apart from houses, including museums, theatres, schools, shopping malls, palaces and places of worship

Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, built in 1955. [Alamy] 
issue 10 June 2023

  • About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings

    Hugh Pearman

    Yale, pp. 256, £30

Architecture is a public art, but public intellectuals tend to engage with more abstract stuff. The style-wars ructions excited by our new King nearly 40 years ago have been settled by gravity, but intelligent discussion about what makes a great building is still a rarity, especially in the Ministry of Levelling Up, where there is muddle.

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