Architecture, Criticism and History (1)
Back in January, I was browsing in the Triangle Bookshop at the Architectural Association when I spotted a volume of essays by Irénée Scalbert, A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves, published by Park Books in Zurich. I had been thinking that, having writing a monthly column for The Critic for five years, it…
Manchester (3)
I spent a second day in Manchester, being shown the city centre by Rachel Haugh, a partner of Simpson Haugh who have been responsible for many of the new developments in Manchester, beginning with the Atlas Bar which opened in 1996 in the Atlas Auto repair yard in Knott Mill and including the four residential…
Provenance in Architecture (3)
I opened my summer edition of King’s Parade, the magazine for people who attended King’s, to find an entirely unexpected recommendation of the excellent so-called Dictionary, really a volume of short essays, on Provenance in Architecture, to which I contributed an entry on ‘Craft’. Summer reading…..
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