After what fellow blogger Mel Starrs described yesterday as “a funny old week” involving a range of heated discussions it was refreshing to hear from a man of action. Step forward then Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, who gave a lecture last night at the RSA. Sinclair’s work, which was described by RSA [...]
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More Meades.. on housing design
More Jonathan Meades from his BBC 4 show Off Kilter on Scottish architecture. His words are fitting for the whole of the UK:
There is of course a bien-pensant constituency whose stupid knee-jerk reaction to modernism of the 60s and 70s is it can’t be any good so why not blow it up… and why not [...]
Zaha fluffs her lines on Today
As a loyal Today listener it’s always intriguing to be woken bleary-eyed – especially in this season – with guest-edited shows. Sprinkled between the usual slots across three hours you get an insight into a figure that can be illuminating and surprising – e.g. that Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, the outgoing Bishop of Westminster, played [...]
