Sad to hear about the death of Amanda Fielding who, many years ago, in her moated Oxfordshire manor, as a parrot nibbled her ear, showed me the film of her trepanning herself @cabinetmagazine https://t.co/DMyoioQJaC
Was a pleasure to judge the 5th edition of @londonbiennale@SomersetHouse on until 29 June. Congratulations to the winning entries Malta, Poland and Oman
Do Ho Suh's film about Robin Hood Gardens, commissioned by @V_and_A for the Venice Architecture Biennale and about to go on view at V&A East Storehouse, was looking good and attracting the crowds at the Tate Modern opening of Suh's solo show last night
Great that Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence has been shortlisted for the Creative Review Awards 2025 in the Experience section:
https://t.co/XS2n6Q9fev
My piece for @Apollo_magazine on the Liria Palace, bombed during the Spanish Civil War, and the eccentric duchess who rescued her confiscated art collection from the Prado and restored it https://t.co/f4mYv8YUzq
My @Literaryreview of Owen Hatherley's briliant book
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century https://t.co/7SYOuZGpLO
"Exciting and clearly researched in great depth, the exhibition is a huge contribution to the project of filling gaps in the design history of the continent – and opens the door for more stories to be told as more and more institutions seek to address Britain’s imperial past."
Come to St Anne's Limehouse, currently on the heritage at risk register, and see an exhibition on Hawksmoor's 6 London churches and the campaigns to save them (St. Anne's as featured in 1960s Vogue) @OpenCity_UK