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’

Long live the starchitect!

Beirut Design Week: ‘We wanted to shock people a little bit’

Icon 170: The California issue – Elon Musk, Yves Behar, Johnston Marklee and the densification of Los Angeles

Douglas Murphy: ‘The fire at Grenfell Tower is a tragedy that should change everything’

‘There is something horribly Victorian about Deliveroo’

Rethink: Cricket

Dazzle ships: The most eccentric daubings in the history of camouflage

The Japanese House at the Barbican – exhibition review

Icon 169: The golden age of transport, Faye Toogood, Farshid Moussavi and the legacy of Bang & Olufsen

Reyner Banham: America – exhibition review

Studio Temp rebrands the Italian regions

The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes on Netflix