Catherine Slessor is a London-based architectural critic and writer. She is a former editor of the Architectural Review and continues to contribute to various architecture and design publications. She is also President of the 20th Century Society, a leading UK heritage organization, which advocates for the preservation and reuse of buildings from the modern era.
The 736-bed Midland Metropolitan University Hospital—a project by Cagni Williams, HKS, and Sonnemann Toon—balances strict technical requirements with design meant to provide comfort and speed the recovery process.
An exhibition at V&A South Kensington examines how Western ideas were reimagined as a form of post-colonial nationhood that combined European practice with indigenous traditions of making and design.
