My first foray into the intersection of politics and architecture. Spiky.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
Funny how ideas formed so long ago still come up. But rather gauche nonetheless.
This was a comment on the UK Government's White Paper on Higher Education from 2011. Corrects a few myths.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
Text of a short talk I gave at the RIBA during a seminar on the legacy of the Bauhaus.
Reflections on 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
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
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
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.
Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in 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.
Not my musing, but that of my brother Nick Till. Nails the issues around Margaret Thatcher's funeral rather beautifully in two paragraphs
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.
In an idle moment I asked ChatGTP to "write a short statement in the style of the architecture critic Jeremy Till on the state of the architectural profession" The result is scarily good.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.