Another piece on architectural education. Rather showy-offy, but was an finalist in the EAAE competition for writings in architectural education that year.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Architecture Depends
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Architecture Depends
Ten Theses on Scarcity
Edited with Sarah Wigglesworth. Now all this stuff appears, well, everyday but back then it was quite original. Buying it is a problem because the publishers discontinued it, but there are some sellers out there in the US. Essays and work by, among others, Sam Mockbee (of Rural Studio, his only published writing, of which we are proud to have persuaded him to do), Greil Marcus, Niall McLaughlin and Michael Marriott.
Will the real user please stand up?
The foreword to Arna Mathiesen's great book Scarcity In Excess, which investigates the effects of scarcity on the built environment in Iceland following the economic crisis of 2008. Other excerpts of the book are on Issuu
For Occupied Times, the journal of the occupation movement. On austerity contra scarcity
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Edited text of an interview with me about participation done with Bernd Upmeyer of the Dutch journal MONU
Very early thoughts from our Scarcity and Creativity project. Now looks rather crude.
In order to get a balanced view, all reviews from the very nice to the very nasty are included here.
Text of my talk as part of the celebration of PBJ's life held at the University of Sheffield, 16th November 2016
Short and a bit inconsequential riposte to Markus Miessen’s Nightmare of Participation.