A Very Modern Preservationist
In the last year there has been a great Nairn revival - I would have loved to buy him a pint and hear him speak unpretentiously about his love of architecture
Faces that Don’t Quite Fit
When it came to painting portraits, Constable struggled to emulate his mastery of landscape
Prague: Diary
‘The post-1989 temptation in Prague has been two-fold. The first has been to legislate the totalitarian past out of existence, the second has been to copy the liberal West blindly at a
The Tide Turns in East Sussex
The grand old towns of the south coast have certainly lost some of their former glory, but there is no reason why their best days should not be ahead of them
Acropolis Now
The world's most famous ruin has been getting a facelift
In Search of Babylon
A British Museum exhibition will mix ancient artefacts with work inspired by the city of legend