Glossing over the cracks
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Short piece on Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, trying to find the line between adulation and critique.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
From Objects of Austerity to Processes of Scarcity. Text of presentation available through link above.
Chosen in open competition to curate the British Pavilion, I put together the best creative minds in Sheffield to present an echo of this wonderful city (the link takes you to my initial application, and I have to say the room data sheets are not bad). The team included: Ian Anderson, Tim Etchells, Hugo Glendinning, Encounters, Martyn Ware, and Jim Prevett. The show attempted to explain how a city is great beyond its buildings: it did not have much architecture in, which did not go down well with architects, especially those in London, who were doubly annoyed that a provincial academic was doing the show. But beyond the Clerkenwell goldfish bowl (with Ellis Woodman in particularly splenetic form, fortunately now behind a paywall), the exhibition was better received (i.e in Die Presse, Der Standard, Financial Times, The Architects Newspaper, The Times, The Yorkshire Post, and of course the Sheffield Telegraph )
Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in architecture.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
The article when I found my voice. Stories, the everyday and a sprinkling of theory.
