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Test your knowledge of Parliament buildings. Book by @ukstaiger.bsky.social Claudia Sternberg and myself. @uclpress.bsky.social

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We made it to the top. Church of St Sophia, Monemvasia upper town. Spectacular views. A slippery slope on the way down. Rewarded ourselves with a cool drink at the canoni square!

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Happy Orthodox Easter #Monemvasia #Greece

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This year’s golden lion. www.world-architects.com/en/architect...

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A new high for architects? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Great visit to the European Parliament today

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Spring has come in Belsize Park

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Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

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Fantastic conference on Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament at Warwick today - great to speak on Vanda Salmon papers @chuarchives.bsky.social on panel with @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @emmapeplow.bsky.social. Thanks @chloechallender.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social for organising

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Thanks to you and @chloechallender.bsky.social for a great conference!

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Dark ages ahead! www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...

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Fascinating lecture by Niall McLaughlin yesterday at the Barbican. Titled ‘Taking Time’, Niall presented a series of projects focusing on the capacity of architecture to narrate time.

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Radical proposition. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

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www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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Two days of amazing lectures presentations and discussions @thebartlettucl.bsky.social School of Architecture in the context of the PhD conference across 5 PhD programmes.

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Excited to be co-organising this conference with @brendantam.bsky.social on 14 March. Thanks to @histparl.bsky.social and @emeccwarwick.bsky.social for funding us. Registration details via the link

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Fascinating discussion at an upgrade viva at the Institute of Education today! Enjoyed being a panelist and continuing my collaboration as supervisor for another candidate. UCL leads the way in interdisciplinary research.

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Trump wants to make architecture beautiful again — there’s just one problem https://on.ft.com/3WKJLu2

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A little Lynch. On interiors. RIP. @financialtimes.com

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My super intelligent, super talented niece who has recently started a neuroscience PhD at UCL has her first scientific paper on spatial navigation and cognition published in Nature! The sky is the limit!

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Work is changing. Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week

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I am reading that Michael Goldhaber, an American thinker, argued that the internet would produce a new type of human, just as printing had. ‘Homo typographicus’ would be replaced by ‘homo interneticus’ disrespectful of old sources and in constant battle for attention.

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A nation? Says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place…or also living in different places. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

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Lubetkin High Point, tonight 16.1.25

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Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

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I found it among a pile of old papers, clippings and photos. Six-fold design. My studio brief on ‘Italo Calvino Institute of Studies and Gallery’. 2003-2005.

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phys.org/news/2025-01...

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Inspired by the Pantheon + built of cast iron in 1857, the reading room of the British Museum contained 25 miles of shelves. It currently houses the museum archive. Famous visitors were Carl Marx, Virginia Wolf, Bram Stoker and Lenin who signed under the name Jacob Richter, among others.

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In his very last work, What is the Word' (1989), Beckett considers the writer's constant search for the right word. The poem is an imaginary writing process of a single sentence, which never manages to finish.’ ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite’ exhibition at The Weston Library. Oxford.

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Alice Oswald often starts writing a poem by means of a drawing. The drawing gradually gives way to words. ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite exhibition at The Weston Library. Oxford.

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2025’s first visits to modern and contemporary buildings. Niall McLaughlin’s Sultan Nazrin Shah conference centre at Worcester College; WillinsonEyre’s Weston Library and Rick Mother’s Ashmolean Museum. Oxford 4.1.25

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Oxford night of satin

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Also includes brilliant chapters by @bymyong.bsky.social and @emmacrewe.bsky.social!

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In Oxford for the annual conference of the Study of Parliaments Group

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@pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Oxford ‘The Pitt Rivers Museum is tied to British imperial expansion and the colonial mandate to collect and classify objects from all over the world. The processes of colonial 'collecting' were often inequitable and even violent towards those peoples being colonised.’

Test your knowledge of Parliament buildings. Book by @ukstaiger.bsky.social Claudia Sternberg and myself. @uclpress.bsky.social

We made it to the top. Church of St Sophia, Monemvasia upper town. Spectacular views. A slippery slope on the way down. Rewarded ourselves with a cool drink at the canoni square!

Happy Orthodox Easter #Monemvasia #Greece

This year’s golden lion. www.world-architects.com/en/architect...

A new high for architects? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great visit to the European Parliament today

Spring has come in Belsize Park

Architect David Chipperfield: ‘We used to know what progress was. Now we’re not so sure’

Fantastic conference on Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament at Warwick today - great to speak on Vanda Salmon papers @chuarchives.bsky.social on panel with @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @emmapeplow.bsky.social. Thanks @chloechallender.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social for organising

Thanks to you and @chloechallender.bsky.social for a great conference!

Dark ages ahead! www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...

Fascinating lecture by Niall McLaughlin yesterday at the Barbican. Titled ‘Taking Time’, Niall presented a series of projects focusing on the capacity of architecture to narrate time.

Radical proposition. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Two days of amazing lectures presentations and discussions @thebartlettucl.bsky.social School of Architecture in the context of the PhD conference across 5 PhD programmes.

Excited to be co-organising this conference with @brendantam.bsky.social on 14 March. Thanks to @histparl.bsky.social and @emeccwarwick.bsky.social for funding us. Registration details via the link

Fascinating discussion at an upgrade viva at the Institute of Education today! Enjoyed being a panelist and continuing my collaboration as supervisor for another candidate. UCL leads the way in interdisciplinary research.

Trump wants to make architecture beautiful again — there’s just one problem https://on.ft.com/3WKJLu2

A little Lynch. On interiors. RIP. @financialtimes.com

My super intelligent, super talented niece who has recently started a neuroscience PhD at UCL has her first scientific paper on spatial navigation and cognition published in Nature! The sky is the limit!

Work is changing. Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week

I am reading that Michael Goldhaber, an American thinker, argued that the internet would produce a new type of human, just as printing had. ‘Homo typographicus’ would be replaced by ‘homo interneticus’ disrespectful of old sources and in constant battle for attention.

A nation? Says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place…or also living in different places. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

Lubetkin High Point, tonight 16.1.25

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

I found it among a pile of old papers, clippings and photos. Six-fold design. My studio brief on ‘Italo Calvino Institute of Studies and Gallery’. 2003-2005.

phys.org/news/2025-01...

Inspired by the Pantheon + built of cast iron in 1857, the reading room of the British Museum contained 25 miles of shelves. It currently houses the museum archive. Famous visitors were Carl Marx, Virginia Wolf, Bram Stoker and Lenin who signed under the name Jacob Richter, among others.

In his very last work, What is the Word' (1989), Beckett considers the writer's constant search for the right word. The poem is an imaginary writing process of a single sentence, which never manages to finish.’ ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite’ exhibition at The Weston Library. Oxford.

Alice Oswald often starts writing a poem by means of a drawing. The drawing gradually gives way to words. ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite exhibition at The Weston Library. Oxford.

2025’s first visits to modern and contemporary buildings. Niall McLaughlin’s Sultan Nazrin Shah conference centre at Worcester College; WillinsonEyre’s Weston Library and Rick Mother’s Ashmolean Museum. Oxford 4.1.25

Oxford night of satin

Also includes brilliant chapters by @bymyong.bsky.social and @emmacrewe.bsky.social!

In Oxford for the annual conference of the Study of Parliaments Group

Happy New Year! With plentifulness of good things and good reads!

@royalacademyarts.bsky.social for the Renaissance masters 28.12.24

Final edits with Blackwing and chocolates. Christmas special. 27.12.24

Happy festive season everyone!