Thank you to University of Chichester Fine Art department students Trudie, Dennis, Charlotte, Jenny, Rebecca, Ali, Chris and Emma for…
From ‘The View from Here’ to ‘Marks Make Meaning’
I’m excited to have been invited to talk and teach for a day at the University of Chichester Department of…
Pinewood, Mole, Sylvan, Old Oak, Shamwari…
This is really a development of this post from August last year. It described a paper I had presented at…
‘Anthropology and Architecture: A Misplaced Conversation’
Occlusions of the Operational Sequence: a coincidental conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in six diagrams is an article…
Tangible and Intangible Commons
On June 13th 10 speakers, 5 invited audience members (as well as an actual audience), 2 student coordinators and I…
Re-Commoning Valley Gardens
In recent months the exigencies of being a researcher have taken me away from my ‘normal’ interests in architecture /…
Villa Madama: reconstruction as design in architecture and archaeology
Witnessing the demise of Matteo Renzi’s premiership I was reminded of something I wrote recently for Column, the in-house journal of 31/44…
An Embassy to the New Republic of Venice
Will and I have been playing with newspaper headlines for our Kingston University Architecture and Landscape 2nd year studio. This is…
Practice as Theory or: how I learned to stop worrying and love CDM
A recent call for papers for a special issue of the Architectural Theory Review recounted a brief meeting between Le…
