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The Prince and the Fortress – Machiavelli on Architecture
In the citadel, the new mark of the city is obvious; a change of scale, deliberately meant to awe and overpower the beholder. Though the mass of the inhabitants might be poorly fed and overworked, no expense was spared …
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The fall of the Narkomfin – end of an architectural vision
In the early 1920’s, at the height of revolutionary zeal in Soviet Russia, Leninists believing fervently in the inevitability of the technological utopia rushing towards them, spearheaded a series of cultural experiments aimed at restructuring their lives under radically new …
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Osaka Living
This is a photo of my bedroom in Osaka, where i’ve made all the furniture out of cardboard. I’m still finishing the shelves – so this photo is just a preview.
I intend to wire lights into the shelves, and …
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A Selection of Recent Models
Well, i haven’t updated this website in a long while – a lot’s changed since i last posted here, but i have some more material to share, projects new and old.
I’d like to start off with a series …
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The Battlefield at the Ministry of Co-operation, Maseille
The culminatory point of an architectural proposal for downtown Marseille which investigated the re-establishment of the French Ministry of Co-operation in Place Jules Guesdes as part of an architectural strategy for a physically negotiated urban zone which allowed citizens to …
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Police Protest Tactics = Total Architecture
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The last couple of years has seen an escalation in tension on the streets of London. Beginning with the series of violent student protests over the increase to tuition fees, a growing mood of anger and frustration spilled over …
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Are recessions good for architecture?
As the UK economy braces itself for a slide into the dreaded second dip of a global capitalist crisis, I found myself trawling through an article I was asked to write the last time recession struck these shores, all …
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The Architectural Revolution…
…is certainly not being brought to you courtesy of any of the international starchitects. It isn’t even a theoretical posture, an aesthetic or a shiny new technology that’s driving the long overdue Revolution in Architectural Affairs. Ironically its a product …
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Iakov Chernikov – Constructivist Dreams
The Royal Academy in London has currently got a show on about the legacy of the Constructivist architecture during the early stages of the Russian Revolution, from 1915-35 – a.k.a before the reactionary Stalinist forces really destroyed the radical aspirations of the …
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Neo Feudal 2
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This second image done as part of a collaborative effort, deals with the increasing political isolation and state protection of the large financial institutions despite growing popular discontent and protest. It subverts a Financial Times advert, placing the …
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Neo-Feudal 1
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This is a vision of the city with its political direction made architecturally explicit. Space is at a premium – when surrounded by an ocean of slum dwellings, only productive citizens are offered protection within the city walls. Three …
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OMA / Progress?
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“Every Architect has the Utopian Gene”
Rem Koolhaas
A review of the OMA exhibition at the Barbican, and some reflections of the slow demise of a firm once at the forefront of the architectural avant-garde…
OMA design for a luxury …
