WAFN is a monthly newsletter including building visits,

architectural commentary plus book and exhibition reviews.

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An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, ‘Materialized Space – the Architecture of Paul Rudolph’, sets out to answer that question, writes Jeremy Melvin.

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Nearly a decade before the Architectural Review published Eric de Maré’s vision for the transformation of our canals to leisure use (July 1949), the splendidly named Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt had completed a survey involving a 400-mile journey around the industrial waterways of the Midlands, writes Paul Hyett.

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The UK government ‘growth agenda’ is generating more heat than light in the world of architecture and planning, with some baffling policies and initiatives which appear irrelevant to the key issues and opportunities, writes Paul Finch.

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Beethoven’s 9th symphony, the setting of Friedrich Schiller’s An die Freude (Ode to Joy), concludes with such an effusion of feeling that it draws attention to an often overlooked aspect of the Enlightenment: its charged emotional underbelly, writes Jeremy Melvin.

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Or was the death of her husband a catalyst for decline? Richard and I are Kingston Alumni, as students we would glimpse an unusual brick house from Richmond Park, writes Lynne Bryant.

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