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
Two Tribes. I was sitting in the architecture studio yesterday listening to students explain their design ideas when we heard that whirring air-raid siren. I’m too young to remember the Vietnam War, although I do remember the ‘boat people’ at RAF Sopley in the New Forest. My first news memories, alongside the background threat of […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Without Prejudice. I think I’m coming to the end. It’s starting to feel like time to change direction. I’ve designed enough buildings. Just over one a week for the past twenty years. Alongside that, I’ve been teaching continuously. Some are small, some big. Mostly houses, but also adventure playgrounds, coffee shops, offices and industrial buildings. […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
A hundred weeks of curiosity. This is the 100th edition of Thoughts for the Weekend. When I started in June 2023, there wasn’t a grand plan — more a marketing push after launching a new website, an effort to explain what I do a bit more clearly. The idea was to shed some light on […]
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 […]
