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…
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…
