Three Myths and One Model
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
My first published work. Oh, what a clever young chappy I was. Sanctimonious posturing.
Funny how ideas formed so long ago still come up. But rather gauche nonetheless.
The article when I found my voice. Stories, the everyday and a sprinkling of theory.
Another piece on architectural education. Rather showy-offy, but was an finalist in the EAAE competition for writings in architectural education that year.
A worthy piece that begins to unpick notions of autonomy in architecture. Good opening, slightly ploddy continuation.
On the dangers and vanities of form. Written when I was wading through my philosophy degree and it shows.
Early stuff on research and first ideas on contingency. Others like this more than I do - it won best paper at EAAE conference. Big in China (reprinted in The Architect (China), Vol 118 Dec 2005)
My longest piece on architectural education. Finalist in EAAE competition. Maybe should have won, but the judges, Perez-Gomez and Palaasma, rose to my bait of inauthentic phenomenology and sulked.
First of two articles setting out the preliminary argument for the book, Flexible Housing. Apparently, one of ARQ's most cited ever article.
Second of two, with some hints as to how to achieve flexible housing, much more developed in the book.
On Park Hill as an example of welfare architecture and its current demise. My first foray into the work of Zygmunt Bauman.
Another introduction, this time for ARQ, to projects arising out of the Spatial Agency project.
Lightish introduction to a whole issue of field (with articles worth reading); the start of the Spatial Agency Project.
Short piece examining local identity, starting with a pop at Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.
Very early thoughts from our Scarcity and Creativity project. Now looks rather crude.
Thoughts on the London riots. I think good.
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.
A review of Koolhaas' S,M,L, XL. May appear a bit grumpy, but in the end I think this is the architectural book of its generation. Reprinted in a collection of essays about Koolhaas.
An invitation from the Italian journal STOA which I could not resist because the other invitee was Valerio Olgiati, whose take on architectural references is the polar opposite to mine. I swipe a bit, but maybe not hard enough, at his stance in this essay.
My essay on architectural research, Three Myths and One Model, is being translated into French, so I thought it was time to write a new introduction to it, because the argument felt a bit tired, presented as it was ten years ago.
A long piece on Trump-Brexit-Architecture. I was nervous doing it because I thought everything had been said, but thought there was an urgency, so any contribution felt worthwhile.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
The first time that Tatjana and I used the term 'spatial agency'. It felt like a breakthrough. The ideas a much expanded upon in the book 'Spatial Agency'
A bit of a cheat, because it is really the second chapter of Architecture Depends