My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Second of two, with some hints as to how to achieve flexible housing, much more developed in the book.
Another introduction, this time for ARQ, to projects arising out of the Spatial Agency project.
Lecture given at the Australian Institute of Architects Annual Conference 2015. One of my better 'performances'
From Objects of Austerity to Processes of Scarcity. Text of presentation available through link above.
This was my first Zoom lecture, delivered as part of the Architecture Foundation's excellent 100 Day Studio intiative during the 2020 COVID lockdown. The video is here , and the transcript linked to the title above. The lecture speculates as to where architecture might be in the face of the twin crises of climate and COVID, arguing that these challenge some of the fundaments on which the modern project of architecture has based itself.
Retrofit under conditions of scarcity. Pdf of presentation is here. Background to day here
This is the text of a short talk I did as part of the UAL Climate Emergency Network 5 day festival in September 2020. It picks up on some of the themes of Architecture After Architecture
Lecture at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, that runs through the structure and argument of our book of the same title. The link is to the video, with my lecture on first.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
My contribution to Sarah Wigglesworth’s great book on our house, Stock Orchard Street. Outlines the tensions of being an architect-client.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
The first book from my scarcity research project. Edited with Jon Goodbun and Deljana Iossifova, it brings together some good articles, including ones by Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, Winy Maas, Kate Soper and more. Table of contents is here.
This is my very short response to Paul Finch's comments on Extinction Rebellion that he made in the Architects Journal on 14th May and 21st May 2019
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
My first published work. Oh, what a clever young chappy I was. Sanctimonious posturing.