Having recently written an article for the popular web-platform Archinect, I’ve been reconnected to an area of interest in architecture that I've left largely untouched for the last few years: that of architectural criticism. This interest for me was then, as it is now, largely concerned with the how such works should be derived – favouring, personally, a method that communicates buildings more as something we experience in daily life and less of something that is objectively rendered on the page.
Read MoreThe World at 40mph
Returning to this space now after many months away travelling, I wanted to engage with a couple of things that came up over this period but I first want to address the character of my trip in general; for while I did not set out with the intention of creating some esoteric exercise to report on (but instead simply desired to “see” and “explore” the world), it wasn’t long before it began to take on such a quality as it evolved alongside my other interests and concerns at the time.
Read MoreAn Architecture of Amnesia
Finally, having more or less finished the portfolio section of this website, I want to give a little time to this space and some of the subjects that have been mounting up over the last few months. But, before I move away from my past work entirely, I do want to quickly shine a light on a project that didn’t make it into my portfolio (for lack of sufficient depth) but which had, in my opinion an interesting hypothesis and potential for further investigation.
Read MoreCollages
A while back now, I came across the work of Swedish artist, Anastasia Savinova and her Genius Loci. A series of architectural collages intended to grasp the identity of a city or place through its architectural consistency. While this work deserves a spotlight all on its own, I wanted to highlight a few of my own compositions, which, much like Anastasia’s, intended to capture the essence of a place through a photographic montage.
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