Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
An essay based on a presentation to the Society of Architectural Historians, tracing various historical episodes of austerity.
A research project funded by AHRC done with Tatjana Schneider and Nishat Awan at the University of Sheffield, gathering together numerous examples of how to use architectural intelligence beyond the production of objects, and in particular in terms of social and political agency. As part of the project we curated the 2009 RIBA Research Symposium (and Jonathan Charley’s video piece on the site is wonderful), produced a book, a website & various articles, and edited two special issues one of field: the other of ARQ. The project was awarded the 2011 RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University-based Research, making me the only person to have received this internationally important award three times.
The best essay on the building and meaning of our house, with stories.
Texts for the catalogue to the British Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. On ideas of scale and stories in cities.
For Occupied Times, the journal of the occupation movement. On austerity contra scarcity
On Park Hill as an example of welfare architecture and its current demise. My first foray into the work of Zygmunt Bauman.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Musings on Biennales and architectural exhibitions. Good opening! Light follow through.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Short and a bit inconsequential riposte to Markus Miessen’s Nightmare of Participation.
From Objects of Austerity to Processes of Scarcity. Text of presentation available through link above.
An obituary written for the Architectural Review and Architects Journal, just a few days after the tragic loss of PBJ.
On the dangers and vanities of form. Written when I was wading through my philosophy degree and it shows.
Spatial Ethics. A lecture that tried to marry work on spatial agency with Arna Mathiesen's brilliant analysis of scarcity in Reykjavik.
Ten Theses on Scarcity
Thoughts on the London riots. I think good.