Gillian is co-judge for the practice monographs category.
https://worldarchitecturefestival.com/worldarchitecturefestival2024/en/page/home
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Alberto Ponis, The London Years
Gillian leafs through Alberto Ponis’s sketchbook covering the early 1960s, particularly the years 1962 and 1963—the years Ponis spent in London working in Denys Lasdun’s office.
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The Leaves of Southwell
A facsimile edition of Nikolaus Pevsner’s 1945 King Penguin book with Gillian providing a new introduction.
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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.
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The RIBA Journal
Gillian explores how we might think about heritage today and tomorrow, and in the light of past mistakes, in an essay taken from London of the Future – which asks what the capital will be like in 100 years’ time.
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/book-london-society-london-of-the-future-gillian-darley-heritage
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An Essex walk with Michael Landy
‘The Essex Way’ was made in connection with Michael’s 2021 exhibition at Firstsite, ‘Welcome to Essex’. It saw him invite a number of Essex residents, thinkers, artists, writers, politicians and celebrity TV stars to walk with him along their favourite walk in Essex.
Watch highlights from Michael’s walks with Gillian, Maria Anastassiou, Ken Worpole and Elsa James.