The MA Architecture, Sustainability & Design department at the University of East London held a conference called The Production of Place. Keynote speakers included the bestselling author Iain Sinclair, Chris Pyke from the US Green Building Council, the Chilean architect, Alberto Moletto and Tony Fretton. Topics were varied/specific, rather than categorical/generic and influenced by three [...]

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Between [...]

Manhattanism is the architectural doctrine of density, height and a Coney Island sense of commercial invention. It has been New York’s major contribution to world culture. For years, New York designers and theorists have struggled with Manhattan. The Commissioner’s grid has been its formal master and the Manhattan block has acquired mythical status. There have [...]