In October Phineas Harper, assistant editor of The Architectural Review, published an article about the state of architectural publishing, in which he addressed the crisis facing traditional architectural publishers and heavily criticized online platforms, particularly ArchDaily, that have “little time for critique, turning instead to reworking press releases and biased descriptions from the architects.”
Allow me to introduce myself: I am a critic and creator of original content for ArchDaily, and I would like to refute these allegations.
This kind of treatment is something which, unfortunately, ArchDaily is used to. In addition to Harper's defamatory comments, we have been criticized by Jan Loerakker on the Failed Architecture blog (which indirectly prompted Harper's article via Elvia Wilk's article in Uncube about “International Architecture English”). Last year, ArchDaily was also accused by Owen Hatherley of helping to generate an architectural culture which “no longer has an interest in anything but its own image.”
