Peter Blundell Jones: An Obituary
My final tribute to PBJ
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My final tribute to PBJ
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.
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.
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
Early piece, written when I had just got Lefebvre. Introduces themes that I play on for years to come.
Short piece on Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, trying to find the line between adulation and critique.
My response as to why giving the official government website 2013 Design of the Year was not so cool.
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.
Thoughts on the London riots. I think good.
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.
A bit of a cheat, because it is really the second chapter of Architecture Depends
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
Really just a transcription of a lecture — ideas on housing, the everyday and occupation over form.
The keynote article for Architectural Review's 1500 issue. Draws heavily on the joint research with MOULD
Very early thoughts from our Scarcity and Creativity project. Now looks rather crude.
Originally commissioned by the RIBA, a piece on what might or might not constitute architectural research. Big in Spain.