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I’m pleased to be joining C20 Society’s Board of Trustees and to support its work to develop public understanding about the value of protecting spaces and places of outstanding design that have shaped the British landscape since 1914.

An absolute joy to finally visit Alain Bourbonnais’s collection of art-hors-les-normes at La Fabuloserie, Dicy, and his magnificent self-designed studio/home/gallery …

The town centre, intricate and full of good urbanist ideas, but in need of tlc; plus a group photograph of the History of Art crew, Adam Coleman, @emadeleinebrown & matt bliss .

Follow the link below to read a short interview with me for Daler Rowney about printmaking, armchair travel, and how I wish I knew how lithography worked daler-rowney.com/discover/news/…

When leisure and industry meet, some thoughts inspired by a field trip to Dunkirk with new friends from Landscape Research for our reflective zine: "le moche qui scotche" ("the ugly that sticks", as Dunkirk was described to us by a local) heyzine.com/flip-book/ccdc…

Hellman’s first (unhappy) job was working for YRM on the University of Warwick, & I was pleased to see his chic 1965 perfective for the SU.

My holiday in Stoke has made the BBC: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

My holiday in Stoke continues to make headlines: timeout.com/uk/news/could-….

Here is the interview: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

On the trail of Ramsgate International Hoverport (1969-83), the world’s first purpose-built hoverport.

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Livia Lupi launches her book Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2024), on Monday 7 October at the Warburg Institute:   warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/book-la…

Looking forward to giving the first Cambridge Architectural History seminar of the year, on ‘Architecture & Sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation’. Do come.

My C20 Society letter objecting to the inexplicable decision not to list Portsmouth Civic Offices picked up as a newsletter by Piloti in Private Eye. Historic England’s report was inadequate & inconsistent, & the building should be given protection

Get in touch if you'd like to do a PhD with me. I'm interested in shopping precincts, leisure centres, power stations, derelict land, inner cities, new towns, city centre redevelopment, the Potteries, & how the everyday built environment illuminates political culture & change. 👍

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 There’s still time to send in your proposals for our #ForArtHistory2025 Annual Conference, which will be held at University of York with History of Art York ✨ DEADLINE: Friday 1 November 👉: forarthistory.org.uk/conference/202… #ArtHistory #VisualCultures #HistoryOfArt #CFP

Letter in the Guardian about the planner Graeme Shankland. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…. Simon Jenkins recycles his line about bomber Harris regularly, & I’d hoped having published so much that nuances Shankland’s career might have shifted his line a little. No luck.

I've stepped in to give SAHGB seminar on 5th of December, with a talk titled 'Swedophilia: Ethic or Aesthetic? Oliver Cox, Michael Ventris and the Lure of Swedish Architecture in Post-War Britain'. I'll be showing lots of Oliver Cox cartoons. sahgb.org.uk/whatson/swedop…. Come!

Join us for an evening with Otto Saumarez Smith, assistant professor of art history at Warwick University and the author of Boom Cities, Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain. 📆 5 Dec 2024 🕰️ 6pm - 7:30pm sahgb.org.uk/whatson

Piece in the C20 Society magazine about the great architectural cartoonist Louis Hellman.

“If it opens people’s eyes to the beauty and diversity of the architecture of the period, it will be marvellous” C20’s Otto Saumarez Smith in the Guardian on new film The Brutalist, that’s winning awards and helping the heritage fight. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…