Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in architecture.
In order to get a balanced view, all reviews from the very nice to the very nasty are included here.
An interview with the portuguese journal arqa. In portuguese, so translation below. On scarcity, politics and the need for alternatives. Done the day of Thatcher's funeral, so pretty gloomy.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
A short piece that I wrote in 2010 for the Architects Journal about end-of-year architecture shows. Some rather paranoid architectural tutors at Westminster (where I was then Dean) saw this as an attack on them personally, and so excommunicated me forthwith. In fact it was nothing to do with them but rather a concern about the general direction of architectural education as manifested through the exhibition.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
On Park Hill as an example of welfare architecture and its current demise. My first foray into the work of Zygmunt Bauman.
Early piece, written when I had just got Lefebvre. Introduces themes that I play on for years to come.
My first published work. Oh, what a clever young chappy I was. Sanctimonious posturing.
Really just a transcription of a lecture — ideas on housing, the everyday and occupation over form.
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.
Reflections on 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
Edited with Peter Blundell Jones and Doina Petrescu. A collection of essays setting out the whys and hows of new approaches to participation. My chapter in the book appears to have ended up on this website. (under Biblioteca) Other chapters include work by Jon Broome, Giancarlo de Carlo, CHORA, and my two fellow editors.
Not a lecture, but a podcast. The first episode from the new 'Architecture Academy' Podcast, set up and delivered by Marc Tuitt (who once was a student at Sheffield when I was Head of School). Under his wise questioning and sharp editing, I come across (though I say it myself) as sharp and focussed on some contemporary architectural issues (sexism, the profession, education and Brexit among them).
From Objects of Austerity to Processes of Scarcity. Text of presentation available through link above.