Catherine Slessor

Architecture critic Catherine Slessor gives her verdict on this year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist and wonders whether the time has finally come for Níall McLaughlin to win the UK's biggest architectural award

The indefatigable and long-standing educator and activist Neil Pinder is the recipient of the 2022 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award. Interview by Catherine Slessor. Photography by Holly-Marie Cato

The Larick Centre by Collective Architecture has won the Public prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards

Redhill Barn by TYPE has won the Project under £500,000 prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards

Industry experts Catherine Slessor, Shankari Raj and Claire Bennie give their reaction to this year’s selection of six buildings that will vie for UK architecture’s most coveted prize

Catherine Slessor meets the winner of this year’s AJ100 award for an outstanding contribution to architecture – a champion of social housing whose designs are applauded across the political spectrum. Photographed by Kristina Sälgvik

Catherine Slessor talks to Lesley Lokko, recipient of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, whose global teaching career has radically changed the conversation around race, identity and architecture

Catherine Slessor talks to Grafton co-founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, joint winners of the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award 2020

The shortcomings of Alan Jones as RIBA president are the latest symbol of an institution that has failed to adequately represent, or lead, the profession for years, says Catherine Slessor

The US President’s attempt to turn back the architectural clock in order to titillate right-wing constituencies speaks of a poisonous bravado, impelled by a conviction that he is untouchable and unstoppable, writes Catherine Slessor