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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
The Garage of the Dead
This is part of a drawing I (mostly) made in 1992 as part of my Diploma (as it was then) in architecture…
What are “scandalous artefacts”?
“The prohibition of incest has the universality of bent and instinct, and the coercive character of law and institution.”
