Conversation between designer Tom Dixon, architect David Adjaye and fashion designer Paul Smith.

MVRDV takes another stab at social housing in Madrid.

The Chilean architect escaping the tyranny of the second home.

Steven Holl puts Norway's novelist on the map.

The brothers on freedom, foxes and Dostoevsky.

Reality as we know it is finished. Welcome to reality 2.0 – where the internet is ubiquitous, and the world is forested with information.

For philosophers and neoliberal oligarchs alike, paradise is an island. Daniel Miller enjoys a study of the appeal of isolation.

Just as music was evaporating into MP3s, a new era of monster box sets has revived the expensive artifact, says Tania Ketenjian.

Part treatise, part memoir, part moan, this latest book from the doyen of Finnish architecture makes a case for craft, touch and memory, says Tom Emerson.

Labyrinthine and weird, the Tricorn shopping centre was a brutalist fantasy that was doomed to failure in 20th-century Plymouth. Owen Hatherley enjoys a belated obituary.

The Monument to the Third International – better known as Tatlin’s Tower, after its creator, Vladimir Tatlin – is one of the most influential structures never built.

The V&A’s exploration of fantasy and fear in contemporary design is light on comforting bedtime stories and heavy on anxiety.

How a guerrilla hero become a T-shirt logo – a new film tells the strange and fascinating story of the world’s first viral image.