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…
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…
