Superurbanism

Amin Taha is making the ancient business of building with stone seem positively disruptive. He takes Tim Abrahams around Groupwork’s ten-storey housing project on Finchley Road in London to discuss construction, carbon and the strange beauty there is in following economic and planning logic.

John McAslan is the Scottish architect behind the transformation of King's Cross, Sydney Central and now the Osney Power Station in Oxford. He spoke to Tim about the disappearance of architectural invention, the challenges facing younger architects and Britain's increasingly generic buildings.

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.