Assuming you can open up the attached article in Building Design, you will see that I am co-hosting an event at the Building Centre on November 20th. about what can go wrong in a building project.

It is the same day as the launch of my biography of Vanbrugh at the Wigmore Hall, which, as it happens, provides an immensely detailed account of what went wrong at Blenheim between Vanbrugh and the Duchess of Marlborough, an account of a classic, long drawn-out and meticulously well documented mega-dispute between an architect and (from his perspective) the client from hell.

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/fragmented-by-design-what-happened-to-joined-up-construction/5138755.article?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Building%20Design%20%20Daily%20news&utm_content=Daily%20Building%20Design%20%20Daily%20news+CID_ab7a0e46a8369b0d87602c2d277aa0d5&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20emails&utm_term=Fragmented%20by%20design%20what%20happened%20to%20joined-up%20construction

https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511201200