Journal

Here, in the reductive spirit of the end of the year, are my top 10 ‘conversations around architecture’ of 2017. I

Words are important: they change minds, they make things happen, and they bring what’s on the inside onto the outside.

Blank pages – or blank documents on your screen – are all depressingly similar.

Words can be tough: strangely tough for people who call themselves writers and weigh up each and every one…

I’m delighted to be joining the beat of my own drum to that of Archiboo.

Sometimes it’s lovely to be out of the hot seat and firmly in the background, which is exactly where I was at last night’s Architect Pitch.

Architectural jargon is quite something.

I’ve been trawling architects’ websites for things that I like, and, now that such things relate directly to my job, I can call it work.

I wish architects would take their words more seriously…