Author Archives: Rory Olcayto

Prejudice, stupidity, hypocrisy: the email leak has exposed harsh truths about the ARB board, writes Rory Olcayto

If the Education Secretary is out of ideas for schools, he should read the AJ – or ring up his Irish equivalent, writes Rory Olcayto

Visible/invisible, public/private, iconic/bland: OMA’s Rothschild Bank is simultaneously contradictory, but pulls it off, writes Rory Olcayto

In his first interview since becoming head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Chris Platt tells Rory Olcayto how he wants to influence Steven Holl’s controversial new campus building

Rory Olcayto, deputy editor

Not every derelict building is a commercial opportunity, as Cardross and Battersea show, writes Rory Olcayto

FAT’s half-metre thick, clip-on facade for Cardiff’s BBC studios is a poster boy for procurement today, writes Rory Olcayto

If the government refuses to consider grand schemes, then architects should do it for them, writes Rory Olcayto

The new slum, space colonies orbiting Earth, eco-cities built from scratch, ‘back-up’ capitals for emergencies… RoryOlcayto presents an overview of the world’s most radical sustainable design ideas

‘We were skint and I needed work’: Rory Olcayto interviews AJ columnist and ‘The Thick of It’ writer Ian Martin on his life in architectural journalism