McC-arch-yism
By Austin Williams | 16 March 2013
In her book, “Back To (Civic) Life, Back To Morality: An Architectural Fable For Our Modern Times”, Elly Ward proposes – somewhat caustically – that a series of ‘moral rehabilitation” centres be built around the UK that are “open to anyone lacking in moral values and showing signs of civic disengagement.” Satire works when it mirrors reality and indeed, we are living in a period where the notion of nudging people into officially sanctioned “good” behaviour is an unquestioned orthodoxy. Read more…
Manufacturing the future
The New Industrial Revolution: consumers, globalization and the end of mass production by Peter Marsh; Yale UP, 2012. 320 pp
Reviewed by Martin Earnshaw | 7 March 2013
Even the ghosts of England’s past oppose HS2 it seems. On 10th February 2013 the Observer ran a bizarre story about how HS2 might go through a historic battle site Read more…
India, China: Talk of the town
By Austin Williams | Feb 19, 2013
As an architect living in Suzhou, just outside Shanghai, I have become blasé about the skyline being transformed before my very eyes. Read more…
Of Pens and Tents: The Jaipur Literature Festival ’13
By Mrinalini Shinde | 13 February 2013
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” – J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye) Read more…
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