This is really a development of this post from August last year. It described a paper I had presented at … More
Category: Archaeology
‘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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
On Trowels
I came across my 4” W.H.S. trowel again while rearranging my bookshelves yesterday. We’d taken all of our Donna Leon … More
London Stone Part 2: a choreographic reconstruction
On the south side of this high street, near unto the channel, is pitched upright a great stone called … More
London Stone Part 1: an unlovely lump of rock
In a niche at low level behind a decorative grille facing the road at 111 Cannon Street, London, and built … More
‘Period Property in Sought-after Area’: 2,500 years of digging at St. George’s Hill.
In 2011 on a suburban plot in Surrey, a newly built house, Ravenridge, was put on sale for £14,750,000…
What are “scandalous artefacts”?
“The prohibition of incest has the universality of bent and instinct, and the coercive character of law and institution.”
