Ruth Lang

The building in Stratford, east London, provides over 40,000m² of space for 5,000 students over 17 storeys, bringing together departments previously dispersed across six sites

The Mumbai practice’s takeover of Paris’s Fondation Cartier galleries and gardens presents objects and installations in a way that makes visitors find their own way through the spaces

Ruth Lang visits the Cosmic House, Charles Jencks’ phantasmagorical home, which has opened its doors to the public

Far from being the arm which extended the dead hand of bureaucracy, council architects’ departments fostered an aspiration, ingenuity and innovation which benefited UK architecture as a whole – and can do so again, writes Ruth Lang