Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Mr Bricolage. 1991 Find a hero. Read everything about them. Apply it. Find another. Do it again. Those were Jay Potts’ instructions. For someone with the capacity to obsess over something for a short period, they still work perfectly. Jay was my architecture lecturer. Well, he was the one really. Found me a job. Picked […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
How to Design a Winery Before Bed. After finishing my day’s work yesterday, I set myself a challenge: design a winery before bed. I’d spent the morning in a medieval vault and a rooftop bar discussing the project with my group of students, whose final-year project it is – see the TFTW from a couple […]
Rethinking Architectural Values: Beyond Design to Assurance
After sharing a version of this discussion on LinkedIn, I’m posting it here to give you insight into the architectural profession’s evolving role in today’s risk-conscious world. Is architecture merely about aesthetics, or does it have a more substantial role? Introduction In the April 2024 issue of the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal (RIBAJ), […]
