More or less what it says on the tin — facts that were correct in early 2012.
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
Another introduction, this time for ARQ, to projects arising out of the Spatial Agency project.
Rather a miserabilist piece, but gets in that fantastic Seneca quote: ‘Those were happy times before the days of architects.’
Scarcity Scares. Video here.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Early piece, written when I had just got Lefebvre. Introduces themes that I play on for years to come.
Musings on Biennales and architectural exhibitions. Good opening! Light follow through.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Edited text of an interview with me about participation done with Bernd Upmeyer of the Dutch journal MONU
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
This was a comment on the UK Government's White Paper on Higher Education from 2011. Corrects a few myths.
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.
Very early thoughts from our Scarcity and Creativity project. Now looks rather crude.
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.
2021-24 AHRC-DFG funded research project in collaboration with Tatjana Schneider, looking at the implications of climate breakdown for spatial practice. Summary of project in the link. We formed a research collective, MOULD, to do the project, and work coming from the project is gathered together at the website MOULD. One of the main outputs of the project is the website Architecture is Climate, a resource that reimagines the future of architecture through its entanglement with climate breakdown.