I’m taking part in a show called Image for a Title : Placebo Effects In The Cultural Landscape curated by Workshop for Potential Design in the Brompton Design District of the London Design Festival that opens on the 14th Sept. Curators Tetsuo Mukai and

Here’s something I wrote for COMMONPLACE, a version of Fulcrum published at this years Venice Biennale. Ironically for something positioning itself on the bleeding edge of newness, the New Aesthetic reeks of something suspiciously like nostalgia. It’s intoxicating vapours contain soothing notes of

Nigel: And then we looked at each other and says well we might as well join up you know and uh….David: So we became The Originals.Nigel: Right.David: And we had to change our name actually….Nigel: Well there was, there was

When did reCAPTCHA start using photographs of house numbers?

A while ago at Studio X in NYC, I ran a what was billed as a “An Evening of Psychometric Drawing Experiments, Architectural Non Sequiturs, and Free Association”. Over the course of the evening we tried a series of drawings games. We

Fire training towers are the structures that the fire service use to practice firefighting. They mimic a range of architectural conditions that firefighters will most likely encounter: height, stairs, doors, rooms and so on resulting in constructions that almost look

A heads up for three events I’m involved in this week. On Tuesday 3rd July I’m in conversation with Jimenez Lai at the Architecture Foundation where we’ll be talking about his installation, his book ‘Citizens of No Place’, Bureau Spectacular’s work …

Delighted to say I’m contributing to Storefront’s Aesthetics/Anesthetics, an exhibition of 30 newly commissioned architectural drawings by 30 emerging and established architects. Each of the 30 commissioned architectural drawings will be auctioned at the end of the exhibition. Proceeds will support

The AA projects review opens tonight, and I’m delighted to be showing our units work as part of the exhibition. We’ve been working under the title ‘Ground Xerox’ and spent the year thinking through the idea of the architectural re-enactment

In the face of the current quietness on Strange Harvest, here is round up of some links / excerpts of stuff I’ve been doing elsewhere. A few links: This to piece on So-Il’s new Kukje Gallery in Seoul for Domus A

I’m currently in Moscow where we are launching the Strelka Press, the publishing arm of the Strelka Institute Directed by Justin McGuirk, the Strelka Press is a publishing house for original writing on architecture, design and the city. It’s format is, currently,

After a massive and mysterious death, Strange Harvest has been rebooted from its digital grave. Everything should be here still … though perhaps not in exactly the right places. Old links, for example, no longer work (unless someone out there

At the same time I grabbed my first Le Corbusier drawing off the postman, I was fitting a special postbox to the right of the front door to make his life easier. He seems very pleased anybody gives a damn,

A short trailer for the So Lonely Valentines Day special at the AA. Here is Hugh Grants face in the throws of turning down Julia Roberts in the classic Rom Com Notting Hill. Slow mo-ed and zoomed in, we can see how

I’m showing Versioned Chairs at the Aram Gallery as part of their Send To Print show on 3D printing. Versioned Chairs explores five canonical chairs through acts of translation. Starting with a photograph of the original chair, this was first translated into

A few images of a piece I contributed to a show last month at FFAR in Stockholm as part of a show curated by San Rocco ‘The Even Covering of the Field’ along with Matilde Cassani and Ignacio Uriarte. The piece is a

I have two pieces out concurrently that in some way speculate on the architectural space of broadcast and communication technology. In a sense, they describe the beginning and the end of what we could call the ‘Hertzian dream’ of liberation

The Gorilla Enclosure as design typology presents a concentrated version of architecture as a total design project: design not of discrete objects but as the design of environment. One could think of the enclosure as a kind of imaginary world,

Double Ended Bath This coming Friday will see a beautiful full blown palindromic moment. The 11th of November at 11 minutes and 11 seconds after 11 in the morning will be 11.11.11.11.11. To mark this meaningless numerical accident, I’ve put

A quick note on some up coming events I’m involved in next week: On Monday, 31 Oct we’re having a launch of the Radical Post Modernism issue of AD that we co-edited and to celebrate FAT will be in conversation with Charles

These are photographs taken from a recent trip to Pruitt Igoe in St Louis. Except of course that Pruitt Igoe, the giant housing scheme designed by Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1956, isn’t there. Beginning with a spectacular implosion in 1972, it

Up, down, turn around / Please don’t let me hit the ground No, I’ve never met anyone quite like you before. Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles

I’m please to announce that the issue of AD that I’ve edited with fellow FAT directors Sean Griffiths and Charles Holland alongside Charles Jencks is now out. Titled ‘Radical Post Modernism’, it has three real aims. The first is to posit a

Just a quick note. I have contributed to Object Abuse at KK Outlet (itself a FAT interior project for KesselsKramer‘s London incarnation). Titled ‘Room Service’ we’re showing the ‘Chop’ (a chair / mop) and the ‘Bright’ (a broom / light), pictured above. These

In the struggle to interpret the inarticulate, centreless fury of the UK riots, the author sees an attack on the privatised, networked city itself. London is a city of enormous disparities in wealth, opportunity and class. It’s a city where

I have an Op Ed up on Domus on the UK riots and their relationship to urban commodification, communication networks and the prolapsed politics of looting. Here’s an extract: “Yet it was also an attack whose ideology seems to spring