Barcelona, Spain, the interior of Casa Batlló featuring a decorative ceiling and large windows, showcasing Antoni Gaudí’s distinctive design style

Rediscovering the elegance of Art Nouveau

How turn-of-the-century designers transformed everyday furniture into living expressions of beauty and craftsmanship

10 APRIL 2026, 

MELIS CANLI

At the end of the 19th century, European cities were racing to keep pace with the rapid advance of industrialization. Amid mass production, mechanization, and urban expansion, designers and artists sought a different kind of expression—one that was fluid, organic, and intimately tied to nature. This search gave rise to Art Nouveau, or “New Art,” a style that did not merely imitate nature but harmonized with it, bringing its elegance and rhythm into everyday life.

Art Deco / The geometry of prestige

The Palais de la Porte Dorée is an exhibition hall located at 293 Avenue Daumesnil, on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France

Art Deco: the geometry of prestige

A perspective on the spatial language of society

10 MAY 2026, 

MELIS CANLI

Emerging in the early 20th century, Art Deco was not only a design style but also a spatial reflection of the social and economic transformations of the period. Named after the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Art Deco replaced organic forms with geometric order, bold material usage, and symmetrical compositions. The acceleration of industrialization, along with the introduction of modern cultural elements such as cinema and transportation into daily life, fueled the rise of Art Deco in both architecture and interior design.

Maggie’s Centre, Oxford, designed by WilkinsonEyre, UK

Maggie’s Centres and the architecture of care

How interior design, healing environments, and evidence-based research reshape cancer support spaces

10 JUNE 2026, 

MELIS CANLI

Maggie’s Centres, operating across the United Kingdom with 26 locations, represent a distinctive support model developed for people living with cancer. Rather than providing medical treatment, these centers focus on addressing the emotional, psychological, and social needs of patients, as well as those of their families and friends. Within this framework, the physical environment is not treated as a neutral backdrop; instead, architecture and interior design become central strategies that actively contribute to care and well-being.

Brutalist university buildings / When monumental architecture feels like a prison

 

Geisel Library is the main library at the University of California, San Diego. Designed by William Pereira, it opened in 1970 as the Central Library. After a renovation in 1993, it was rededicated as the University Library Building, and in 1995 it was renamed Geisel Library in honor of Audrey and Theodor Seuss Geisel, the latter better known as the children’s author Dr. Seuss

Brutalist university buildings

When monumental architecture feels like a prison

10 JULY 2026, 

MELIS CANLI

University campuses are traditionally imagined as open environments that encourage creativity, intellectual exchange, and social interaction. However, many university buildings constructed during the mid-twentieth century present a very different spatial experience. Massive concrete structures, narrow corridors, and fortress-like facades often dominate these campuses. While these buildings were originally designed to express strength, modernity, and institutional power, many users today perceive them as oppressive or prison-like.

Therme Vals / Designing for mental recovery

 

The Thermal Baths, located in Vals, Switzerland, is a hotel and spa complex developed over the Graubünden canton’s only thermal springs, completed in 1996 and designed by Peter Zumthor

Therme Vals: designing for mental recovery

Spatial strategies against chronic fatigue

Melis Canli

10 August 2026

In contemporary societies, chronic fatigue and burnout have become increasingly common conditions. Long working hours, information overload, and the constant need to be productive may cause individuals to be mentally exhausted and emotionally drained. Although the role of medicine and psychology in the solution of these problems has been extensively discussed, the role of architecture has not received the attention it deserves. The spaces in which individuals live and work may affect cognitive restorative processes, emotional stability, and mental health.

Nakagin Capsule Tower / A future that didn’t last

 

The Nakagin Capsule Tower was a mixed-use residential and office building in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district, designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa

Nakagin Capsule Tower: a future that didn’t last

The rise and fall of a modular living experiment

Melis Canli

10 September 2026

Completed in 1972 in Tokyo, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was one of the most radical experiments in modern housing. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa, the building embodied the ideas of the Metabolist movement, which imagined architecture as flexible and replaceable rather than permanent.

 

Museum of Ethnography is one of Hungary’s most significant cultural institutions, located in Budapest and dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of ethnographic collections from Hungary and around the world

The Museum of Ethnography: building beneath the park

A new vision of museum architecture where landscape and structure become inseparable

Melis Canli

10 October 2026

Completed in 2022 as part of the Liget Budapest Project, the Museum of Ethnography redefines the relationship between architecture, landscape, and public space. Designed by NAPUR Architect under the leadership of Marcel Ferencz, the building occupies a key position at the edge of Budapest’s historic City Park. With a total floor area of approximately 34,000 m², the museum is among the largest cultural developments in Hungary in recent decades.

Louis Vuitton and the architecture of luxury

 

The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a French art museum and cultural center established by LVMH to support and promote contemporary art, culture, and creative expression through exhibitions, events, and educational programs, Paris, France

Louis Vuitton and the architecture of luxury

The fusion of luxury branding, architecture, and urban identity

Melis Canli

10 November 2026

In the contemporary landscape of luxury branding, architecture has evolved far beyond its traditional role as a functional container. For Louis Vuitton, architecture operates as a strategic medium—one that communicates identity, creates spectacle, and transforms urban space into a stage for brand storytelling. Across global cities, Louis Vuitton’s buildings are not merely retail environments; they are immersive, sculptural statements that merge design, marketing, and cultural production.

The Righst of the Reader by Daniel Pennac

The Righst of the Reader by Daniel Pennac illustrated by Quentin Blake

1 The right not to read.

4 The right to read it again.

2 The right to skip.

5 The right to read anything.

3 The right not to finish a book.

7 The right to read anywhere.

8 The right to dip in.

6 The right to mistake a book for real life.

9 The right to read out loud.

10 The right to be quiet.

The best books to read in November and December / New paperbacks from Benjamin Myers, Jeanette Winterson and John Updike

Illustration by Quentin Blake

The best books to read in November and December: new paperbacks from Benjamin Myers, Jeanette Winterson and John Updike

Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some must-read new paperbacks, from an experimental novel about a German actor to a study of how the arts can boost our health

Friday 13 November 2026

 

Brad Pitt as James Belmont and his dog, Odin, in “Heart of the Beast.”Credit...

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‘Heart of the Beast’ Review: Brad Pitt Goes Into the Wild

Starring as a veteran venturing into Alaska with his trusty dog by his side, Pitt manages to elevate this dude-canine tale.

By Nicolas Rapold

Sept. 24, 2026

There’s getting away from it all, and there’s what Brad Pitt’s rugged character is doing at the start of “Heart of the Beast.” With his German shepherd by his side, James (Pitt) pilots a Cessna aircraft deep into the Alaskan wilderness, plops down near a gorgeous, deserted lake, and cracks open a cooler of beer. It’s a small patch of heaven for man and dog, as they both chill in the sunshine and catch fish.

The Art of Teaching Writing

 

Illustration by Olivia Locher

The Art of Teaching Writing

Pirette McKamey on helping students believe that what they write really matters

By Kristina Rizga

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the wisdom of veteran teachers.

Top 10 strangest alien invasion novels

Foreign language … Amy Adams in Arrival (2016), the film version of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life. 

Top 10 strangest alien invasion novels

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We don’t need crash-bang confrontations in moral black and white. These novels tell more subtle stories, where the line between human and other blurs

Nina Allan

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Say the words “alien invasion” and the stories most people think of are those told in movies like Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996), in which the battle lines between good and evil are cleanly divided. HG Wells dreamed up this template in 1897, with Martian invaders laying waste the home counties in The War of the Worlds. Half a century later, John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes (1953) envisaged the melting of the ice caps not as the by-product of human negligence but as the result of a hostile intervention by alien forces.

 

‘I pushed it as far as it would go’ … the 81-year-old writer. 
Photograph: Sarah Lee

‘We are dream-walking into a desperate situation’: the Booker prize winner on his sci-fi alien invasion wakeup call

He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream – with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left?

Lisa Allardice

11 November 2026

M John Harrison’s Booker prize-winner is weird, challenging and strikingly topical

After years on the margins, Harrison’s win for this resonantly disturbing dystopia brings the visionary writer the recognition he deserves

Justine Jordan
Monday 9 November 2026

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M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award

Emma Loffhagen

Monda 9 November 2026

Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history.

Actor Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. 

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Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece

At 89, the star of the Graduate and Rain Man demonstrates both brilliance and a startling lack of self-awareness

Peter Bradshaw
Monday 9 November 2026

The choice of title for an actor’s autobiography can be revealing. Sylvester Stallone went with The Steps, conflating life’s challenging progress with those steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that Rocky euphorically ran up. Michael Douglas cheerfully and unreflectively called his One Helluva Ride.

 

PHOTO: Guido Guidi Col tempo, 1956–2024

Guido Guidi reads and threads together the signs of the world. He collects and observes rather than claiming to “create.” He seldom speaks in the first person and, by conviction, steers clear of the personalism of “I”. He favors silence over speech, suggestion over symbol, the epigram over the manifesto, the quotation over the declaration. He delights in ambiguity, misreading, wordplay, and transgression, and, in his reserve, most often speaks through the words of others, “in quotation marks”. For all this—and indeed because of it—he is regarded as a master by several generations of artists.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: LE BAL Archive