Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
From Objects of Austerity to Processes of Scarcity. Text of presentation available through link above.
Texts for the catalogue to the British Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. On ideas of scale and stories in cities.
My main statement of intent, which has been extensively reviewed (collected here) and featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4. The contents are available on the MIT Press website, as are pdfs of the preface and introduction. A version of Chapter 2 was published in field: and is available as a pdf. Winner 2009 RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University based research.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Shifting the Ground
In which I ask the question, if live projects are 'live' does this mean that the rest of architectural education is dead.
Posted in honour of their 2014 RIBA Gold Medal Award. First published in Architectural Review in 2005 (and needs the drawings/pictures) A bit of a rave.
My final tribute to PBJ
Spatial Ethics. A lecture that tried to marry work on spatial agency with Arna Mathiesen's brilliant analysis of scarcity in Reykjavik.
The article when I found my voice. Stories, the everyday and a sprinkling of theory.
Retrofit under conditions of scarcity. Pdf of presentation is here. Background to day here
Short foreword to a big collection of essays about, well, architecture and social engagement. This was written in the dog days of Brexit and Trump, so comes across as quite fluently pissed off. It captures in a short text what I have been ruminating on for a few years.
Very early thoughts from our Scarcity and Creativity project. Now looks rather crude.
This was a comment on the UK Government's White Paper on Higher Education from 2011. Corrects a few myths.
Co-authored with Jon Goodbun, Michael Klein and Andreas Rumpfhuber. The main outcome of the Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment project. At the beginning of this project it became clear that there was no contemporary theory of scarcity that addressed the current conditions, so this book sets out to fill that gap, and then relate that theory to design. It is a short (15,000 words) book, and good value.
Architecture Depends
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.