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Here we are at Grassroots Museum of Architecture hearing about amazing achievements @OnionCollective Piers Taylor

Loved @OnionCollective summarising journey of @EastQuayWatchet as ‘story of no’ and how (with Piers Taylor) delivered an absolute success. Great point StudioGil on staff being from ‘global majority’ backgrnd. Imp distinction that speaks to wider goals of racial&climate justice

Our improvised apple store after a bountiful autumn harvest last weekend. And Steve & Norman’s slightly less improvised Apple Store from my visit to NYC in the spring.

Sure, architecture is ‘soft’ knowledge & we’re all cynical about its tendency to self aggrandisement & claims that assembling a sample board is ‘research’ but there remains something wonderful in how sketchy design conversations can tease out ideas in a wholly unique manner…

Coming soon: a new film about Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis from ⁦Shareyourgreendesign⁩. Trailer here:

My comments for Architects’ Journal on environmental thinking in teaching… Full piece here architectsjournal.co.uk/news/students-…

Things you never knew you needed to know: what the imprint of a cat’s bottom on a frozen deck looks like. And yes, rather him than me.

Stocking filler for anyone interested in building homes, #social value, #land justice and rebuilding the #commons. I am excited to report that my next book Housing for Hope and Wellbeing will be published 20 December 20% discount with code FLE22 RoutledgeArch&Anth

Hasn’t been above -2° C all day. Thankfully it isn’t getting any darker and in three days the evenings get longer.

Before anyone comes on twitter to tell us they’re going off twitter for the holiday period I’m coming on twitter to say I’m not going off twitter.

If only there was a leader of any party that was less mainstream/more mainstream/more ideological/less ideological/more charismatic/less charismatic/ everything would be fine. That’s about the state of UK politics as told by Twitter.

Most comments here re RIBA house of the year see to be from architects or those who purporting interested in architecture & wow, I’d forgotten - in terms of personal prejudice - what an incredibly un-catholic bunch they are, but also that they can’t see beyond personal prejudice

This was an interview -or conversation - I loved having with Ambrose Gillick about the strange world of practice that we architects try to navigate Spot tinyurl.com/46ywnjjv iTunes tinyurl.com/esr4ewmh Google P’cast tinyurl.com/ahkjfkwd Amazon M’c tinyurl.com/2p8cp8et

Episode 13/2 of #aisforarchitecture with Piers Taylor of @invisible_studio about his journey to #architecture, the development of his #practice, the way he works, his approach to #design-as-#making and making-as-design & the problems of #professionalism. tinyurl.com/esr4ewmh

East Quay in Watchet, Somerset, by @invisiblstudio community arts centre set up by local women, announced on MacEwen Award 2023 shortlist @EastQuayWatchet #ribajmacewen ow.ly/apCV50Mnxe2

A talk in Bath on 5th May where I’ll ruminate on how the city could initiate culturally relevant infrastructure for itself as the Onion Collective did at East Quay. Do come and contribute …reservation-trust.merlintickets.co.uk/product/EVENT0…

Amongst all the messages of good cheer and reminders of successes during the past year, it is worth remembering what England is actually like at Christmas.

‘The process of working with others is the place where the real joy happens’: Charley Brentnall, pioneer in timber buildings who loved exchanging knowledge with everyone, remembered by Piers Taylor ow.ly/X2fF50QQj25