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Soaring Inspiration
I have always been fascinated by aviation. Although architectural design has been my chosen profession, which I have found fascinating, like many others not fortunate enough to make their career as a pilot, I have spent huge chunks of my … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, design, gliding, inspiration, literature, soaring
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A Week in the Shard
The Shard, London ©Robert Kronenburg I recently found out that I am one of six winners of an RIBA competition in which entrants were asked to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their lives, practice and the general world … Continue reading
This Must Be The Place: CBGB and OMFUG
My book This Must Be The Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues (Bloomsbury, New York) is published today 7th March 2019. It tells the story of the places and spaces where popular music has been performed and … Continue reading
Thinking, Doing and Making at HELLO WOOD
This summer I spent eight hot days in rolling farmland a few hours from Lake Balaton in rural Hungary. Up a farm track, amidst a matrix of huge fields was a triangle of land which became, over just a few … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, building, education, self-build, sustainability
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Tiny House
One cold March a few years ago I was travelling through New England on a short holiday after a week’s work in New York. I didn’t have any rooms booked or arrangements made and this had led me on a round-about … Continue reading
Political Architecture: The ‘big’ and the ‘flexible’
A few years ago I was in Bucharest helping judge a competition to design a large-scale temporary installation in one of the city’s squares. The organisers set the judging panel up in the Palace of the Parliament constructed in … Continue reading
MEA (Minimal Effort Architecture)
The phrase Renaissance woman/man is sometimes overplayed but I am fortunate to know someone who genuinely deserves that accolade. Jim is an architect, a gifted water colourist, a teacher and a superb chef. He is also by far the best … Continue reading
Shows, People and Architecture in Las Vegas
A couple of years ago when I was working on my book Live Architecture, I spent a week in Las Vegas looking at new performance buildings designed by the Canadian company Scéno Plus. Vegas (why is the ‘Las’ left off … Continue reading
How many planets? Sustainability and flexible design
Over the past few months I have been updating some writing on mobile and flexible architecture that I first prepared nearly twenty years ago, and as you might expect, much has changed in the intervening period. One of the things … Continue reading
What can temporary architecture do? The BMW Guggenheim LAB symposium
What can temporary architecture do? What can it achieve in comparison with static architecture? These were two of the key questions explored in a brief ‘temporary’ symposium held at the Atelier Bow Wow designed pavilion on its penultimate day in … Continue reading
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