F A B R I C A T I O N

Ice brick

Some time back in 2005/06 I made this sketch. From time to time I look again at this initial concept and material experiment for my final BA thesis project: A Town Hall for Spitalfields. This image grew out of an... Read more →

Sites of Learning

I nearly accepted an offer from Ravensborne College in 2002. Earlier the same day I had my interview at London Met’s Spring House on Holloway Road (then University of North London) before travelling to slumbering Chislehurst where Ravensbourne’s campus was then. Read more →

Hari

The piece Hari written by the travel writer Bruce Chatwin was my favourite thing in the John Pawson exhibition. I remember Pawson’s dreamy white veiled room and his models and razor sharp photographs, but this one page from a typewriter (complete with crossing out) became a looking glass into Pawson’s interiors. Read more →

FOUR FATHERS

Cyril of Alexandria John Chrysostom Gregory of Nazianzus Basil of Caesarea The high Baroque church St Nicholas (in Czech Mikulase) on Mala Strana is known in Prague as the ‘Wedding Cake’. Once inside the nick name becomes obvious as modesty... Read more →

Loose Footings - Dunton Plotlands, Basildon

At the Dunton Plotlands museum Norman, an elderly volunteer is busy with a hand full of visitors, they arrive later than expected since only smouldering ashes provide a subsidiary heat. But eager to entertain, he winds up the record player... Read more →

Out of Sight - The forgotton families of Indias largest resettlement drive

On 11 November, news broke that New Delhi’s Athletes’ Village for the 2010 Commonwealth Games was in jeopardy as environmentalists petitioned the High Court to halt construction on the green banks of the Yamuna River. For many of the residents... Read more →