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.
Escaping The Fountainhead
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
This was a comment on the UK Government's White Paper on Higher Education from 2011. Corrects a few myths.
A critique of masterplanning. On to something here, but yet to be developed.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Working with colleagues at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture, most notably Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth, we established the most developed live projects programme in the country, probably the world, with some truly wondrous results. For example, look at the final report (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) from a group of students that I supervised looking at the use of urine to make mud bricks in Darfur. It is remarkable what they achieved in six weeks - should be awarded a PhD for this alone IMHO.
Reforming.
As part of the series ‘The Social Production of Architecture’. Didn't go too well because I asked the question: Is Design Activism bad design and bad activism? This started a debate.
