A facsimile edition of Nikolaus Pevsner’s 1945 King Penguin book with Gillian providing a new introduction.
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The Leaves of Southwell
Month: November 2023
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Awarded Hon FRIBA
Gillian was awarded an RIBA Honorary Fellowship for her significant contributions to architecture.
Books:
Excellent Essex – Old Street Publishing, hardback (Sept. 2019) paperback (April 2021)
Talking, including podcasts
Dr Simon Machin and I on Octavia Hill, Episode 31 http://redheavenproject.com/episodes/octaviahill
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
Writing
Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (2021) – Review
https://drawingmatter.org/growing-up-modern-childhoods-in-iconic-homes-2021-review/
Essay around ‘Hage‘, a walled public garden designed for development area in Brunnshog outside Lund by Norwegian practice, Brendeland & Kristoffersen. (2022)
https://raangen.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hage_folder_eng_web.pdf
Contribution, North Bucks Monorail City, in Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (Reaktion, 2021)
Still on Essex
Chapter 10, ‘A case study in vulnerability: Bradwell A, a trial environment for nuclear power’ in ed. Dr Johanna Dale. St. Peter-on-the-Wall: Heritage and landscape on the North Sea coast (UCL Press, summer 2023. open access)
Chapter: ‘Plotlands to New Towns’ in Radical ESSEX (Cornerstone Publications 2018)
Recent reviews, journalism and other news
Apollo Magazine, regular features and online contributions, LRB blogs.