The Dangers of Safety
The official response to Grenfell ensures that risk-aversion will forever more play a central role in the construction industry.
The Decay of Democracy
The Houses of Parliament needs fixing, but first you need to be clear about its foundations.
Milano. Environment yes.
It’s a remarkable sleight of hand that portrays design magazines, editors and contributors, who are fully embedded on the inside, as radical outsiders.
The Public? Remember them?
Architects have lost all contact with the very people – the public – that they fantasise about representing.
Activists in the classroom
Third Party advisors are putting students and tutors in an invidious position, compelling both to recite the ‘acceptable’ narrative, rather than explore education openly.
Companies’ Proper Gander into Design Education
The Design Council’s virtue-signalling provides a good illustration of the capture of craftsmanship by the fad for sustainable goals.
Thou Shalt Not Drive…
Seldom have our local representatives been more authoritarian; implementing road closures in the dead of night. And famously ignoring the results of public consultations.
Amazing Place – St Gregory’s, Morville.
What is remarkable about St Gregory’s is that it’s not remarkable, just a small parish church. It’s nothing special: just one parish out of 16,000.
Gimmick merchants, status salesmen and hidden persuaders
Design Declares and Architects Declare are the worst kind of manifesto, signalling their faux-virtue, commercialism, PR, and prejudice.
Liberty has its Limits
To claim freedoms we must use those freedoms with judgement, foresight, and awareness about the consequences of our actions for others.
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