Editors’ note: This past October, Benjamin Riley, the Managing Editor of The New Criterion, spoke by telephone with the architectural historian Clive Aslet and the photographer Dylan Thomas from their ...

In 1974 the Victoria and Albert Museum held an exhibition called “The Destruction of the Country House.” The director, Roy Strong, noticed that visitors were in tears as they came to terms with all ...

Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House, by Clive Aslet and Dylan Thomas (Triglyph Books: 2020), 304 pages. Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each tradition of Europe’s ...

The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to a book party with Clive Aslet. We will toast King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture, Clive’s newest book out from Triglyph Books.

On Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter by Clive Aslet. Such dazzling exemplars, however, belie this architect’s soft-spoken and nuanced attitude: “I am always pleased when ...

Let’s look on the bright side. As someone whose home is in the center of London, I have to admit… ...

“Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside” by Clive Aslet ($65, Bloomsbury, 672 pages) This is an impressive and mammoth undertaking. Clive Aslet traveled the length of ...

We all know that King Charles III is big on architecture. Since he made the famous Carbuncle speech, attacking a proposed extension to the National Gallery, in the Orwellian year of 1984, it has been ...

Throughout history, kings and queens have commissioned buildings all around the world but just how much has their vision shaped the cities of today? We explore the new book, ‘Royalty and Architecture’ ...

St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Sir Edwin Lutyens. Photo taken with permission from Clive Aslet's book Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect? There's more to the Arts and ...