Icon of the month: AA Files

ICON 177: The global politics of Chinese eco-cities, Ou Ning, Shanghai deco, propaganda posters and the V&A in Shenzhen

Ian Nairn: Modern Buildings in London

The Getty Center: Meier’s masterpiece at 20

Icon 176: The rise of the robots, plus Terry Farrell, OMA, Flores & Prats, and designers confronting pollution

Icon 175: The soft power of German design, plus Neave Brown, Arcosanti, Wolf D Prix and Dutch Design Week

The KX100 phone box: A fond, foolish farewell

Review: Ettore Sottsass, Design Radical

Crimes Against Design: Gifs

Plywood: Material of the Modern World

Icon 173: Thomas Heatherwick, Paola Antonelli, Paul Priestman and the legacy of Boris Johnson

Bellman carts: ‘Trapped in a corner of late modernism that has no saving graces’

Peter Opsvik: ‘My theory about sitting is simple: if we are allowed to move, we move’

‘The myth surrounding Alison and Peter Smithson is largely of their own making’

Infantilising design: ‘Youthfulness has always been desirable, but in recent decades it has been fetishised’

Icon 172: London design special with Camille Walala, Form & Seek, Dean Brown, Max Frommeld, creative Brexit

Josef Vaněk’s Šumperák family house took Czechoslovakia by storm

Icon 171: IF_DO, V&A extension, Matylda Krzykowski, Nanjing exhibition centre, 100 years of Finnish design

Stirling prize 2017: ‘A rather curious shortlist’

The State of Illinois Center by Helmut Jahn: ‘It is about as subtle as an exploding meteorite’

Husqvarna chainsaw: ‘The perfect product for a weapons manufacturer to produce in times of peace’