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
Scarcity Scares. Video here.
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.
Text of my talk as part of the celebration of PBJ's life held at the University of Sheffield, 16th November 2016
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
The first book from my scarcity research project. Edited with Jon Goodbun and Deljana Iossifova, it brings together some good articles, including ones by Ezio Manzini, Erik Swyngedouw, Winy Maas, Kate Soper and more. Table of contents is here.
In order to get a balanced view, all reviews from the very nice to the very nasty are included here.
A short think piece on the 2011 Occupation movement and its relevance to architecture.
A short paper for the Journal of Architectural Education which specifically links issues of scarcity with notions of agency
Architecture Depends/Spatial Ethics. Video of the lecture is here.
An essay on live projects written for a collection edited by Mel Dood and others from RMIT in Melbourne.
Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in architecture.
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
This is a rare one where I write specifically about buildings, or in this case the subtlety of the plans of Proctor Matthews Architects. Online here, pdf here.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
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.
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.