The Knowledges Of Architecture
A worthy piece that begins to unpick notions of autonomy in architecture. Good opening, slightly ploddy continuation.
A worthy piece that begins to unpick notions of autonomy in architecture. Good opening, slightly ploddy continuation.
Early stuff on research and first ideas on contingency. Others like this more than I do. Big in China.
First of two articles setting out the preliminary argument for the book, Flexible Housing. Apparently one of arq’s top downloads.
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.
Early piece, written when I had just got Lefebvre. Introduces themes that I play on for years to come.
Sticky opening (I was reading Kant at the time) but better later on issues of time in architecture.
Short piece on Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, trying to find the line between adulation and critique.
Rather a miserabilist piece, but gets in that fantastic Seneca quote: ‘Those were happy times before the days of architects.’
Musings on Biennales and architectural exhibitions. Good opening! Light follow through.
My contribution to Sarah Wigglesworth’s great book on our house, Stock Orchard Street. Outlines the tensions of being an architect-client.
An essay based on a presentation to the Society of Architectural Historians, tracing various historical episodes of austerity.
A bit of a cheat, because it is really the second chapter of Architecture Depends