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.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Spatial Agency and the Ethics of Architecture
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
An obituary written for the Architectural Review and Architects Journal, just a few days after the tragic loss of PBJ.
My last (ever?) building as an architect, designed with Sarah Wigglesworth. Made of straw and stuff. Best known for being on Grand Designs, the video of which is online. Sarah’s wonderful book on the project views it from all sides. Winner of the RIBA Sustainability Award, a Civic Trust Award and some others. Lots and lots of reviews of the project, including the Observer, and, and, ... We live in it and are happy.
For Occupied Times, the journal of the occupation movement. On austerity contra scarcity
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.
My first published work. Oh, what a clever young chappy I was. Sanctimonious posturing.
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.
Will the real user please stand up?
Retrofit under conditions of scarcity. Pdf of presentation is here. Background to day here
Short and a bit inconsequential riposte to Markus Miessen’s Nightmare of Participation.
Spatial Ethics. A lecture that tried to marry work on spatial agency with Arna Mathiesen's brilliant analysis of scarcity in Reykjavik.
The best essay on the building and meaning of our house, with stories.
The Expanding Field: Architecture Beyond the Object.