Architecture Criticism against the Climate Clock
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
For Occupied Times, the journal of the occupation movement. On austerity contra scarcity
This was my first Zoom lecture, delivered as part of the Architecture Foundation's excellent 100 Day Studio intiative during the 2020 COVID lockdown. The video is here , and the transcript linked to the title above. The lecture speculates as to where architecture might be in the face of the twin crises of climate and COVID, arguing that these challenge some of the fundaments on which the modern project of architecture has based itself.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Second of two, with some hints as to how to achieve flexible housing, much more developed in the book.
Short piece examining local identity, starting with a pop at Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.
Scarcity Scares. Video here.
This is the text of a short talk I did as part of the UAL Climate Emergency Network 5 day festival in September 2020. It picks up on some of the themes of Architecture After Architecture
Unpicking the differences between scarcity and austerity, the implications for the built environment. Good twitter feedback. Translated into French courtesy of the great journal Criticat. Pdf of translation here.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Architecture Depends
A bit of a cheat, because it is really the second chapter of Architecture Depends
Really just a transcription of a lecture — ideas on housing, the everyday and occupation over form.
Text of a short talk I gave at the RIBA during a seminar on the legacy of the Bauhaus.
Ten Theses on Scarcity. A lecture given in a tent on the steps of St Pauls during the Occupy London Stock Exchange period. Vocal audience who gave not a jot about my professorial authority. Rightly. Podcast, with the atmosphere of the occupation, is here.
This is my glowing review of Barnabas Calder's new history of architecture, from the perspective of energy and climate. Spoiler alert: it is good.