Published articles in 2024
Links to my writing in publications and magazines.
I add to this periodically throughout the year, mainly as a record for myself but I hope you find something to like if you are here!
The Architectural Review
Keynote: Concrete Ceiling: decarbonising the planet’s most consumed human-made material, Oct 2024. Whether concrete can really be decarbonised, extractivism, and whether we can do without it.
Outrage: RAAC and the crisis of lost public land, Mar 2024. Why the RAAC schools crisis has less about concrete and more about politics than meets the eye.
The Architect’s Journal
AI and homes, the rise of iBuyers, Mar 2024. Real estate AI, not software, is the real threat to architects.
The Break Down
Uniting the Climate and Housing Crises, Sep 2024. Overlaps and tensions between climate and housing challenges.
Resurgence & Ecologist
Hannah Ritchie Review, Mar/April 2024. The Our World in Data lead researcher’s gift for climate delayers.
Guy Shrubsole’s Lie of the Land Review, Nov/Dec 2024. Interesting coverage of how poorly landowners care for the countryside, arguing for greater community ownership, access and invovlement.