The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
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
My final tribute to PBJ
Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in architecture.
For Occupied Times, the journal of the occupation movement. On austerity contra scarcity
Another introduction, this time for ARQ, to projects arising out of the Spatial Agency project.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
An essay based on a presentation to the Society of Architectural Historians, tracing various historical episodes of austerity.
Edited text of an interview with me about participation done with Bernd Upmeyer of the Dutch journal MONU
This was a comment on the UK Government's White Paper on Higher Education from 2011. Corrects a few myths.
Funny how ideas formed so long ago still come up. But rather gauche nonetheless.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
Judy Willcocks, the Head of the Museum at Central Saint Martins, sat me down to cover my time from 2012-222 as Head of Central Saint Martins. We covered a lot of ground in 50 minutes, and it is a useful summary/memory of that period (at least for me)
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.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
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.