To introduce myself, my working life has always been focused on inspiring people, intriguing buildings and beguiling landscapes.
When I discuss the present, I'm informed by the past and vice versa. I write about the achievements of determined, even forgotten, women and men, I celebrate and discuss architecture of quality, both old and new, while I have a particular liking for Utopian experiments and unlikely places.
One thing leads to another, unlikely connections emerge. That's the way my world goes round.
News 2023-24
Writing:
Excellent Essex Old Street Publishing, hardback (Sept. 2019) paperback (April 2021)
Talking
An Essex walk with Michael Landy https://firstsite.uk/essex-way-walks/
Odes on Essex, BBC R3 Essay series, The Essex Way, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-essex-way/id471685852?i=1000507050903
Gresham College: Britain's First Environmentalist. Marking 400 years since John Evelyn's birth. Livestreamed October 29, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOik751LhHk
Participant in Princeton Womxn in Design and Architecture conference on Minnette de Silva, March 2021. https://wda.princeton.edu/conference/2021/minnette-de-silva-constructive-dialogues
More writing
Essay 'Round and Round the Power Station' in Sunset Sunrise Sunset (Art on the Underground 2022).
Essay 'Land in Common' in Hage (Lund Cathedral, 2022) https://raangen.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hage_folder_eng_web.pdf
Essay 'North Bucks Monorail City' in Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (Reaktion, 2021)
Forthcoming online essay in celebration of Colin Ward's centenary (Bristol Ideas Festival, 2023).
Introduction to facsimile edition of Nikolaus Pevsner's The Leaves of Southwell (Five Leaves Publications, 2023)
Forthcoming essay in The Modernist 46 Massive
More Essex, to come
Chapter 9 'Bradwell A' in ed. Dr Johanna Dale. St. Peter-on-the-Wall: Heritage and landscape on the North Sea coast (UCL Press, summer 2023)
Recent reviews and journalism
Apollo Magazine, regular features and online contributions
Recent LRB blogs include
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/april/in-llanystumdwy
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/february/in-fishguard
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