Beauty is anything, made or found, which without practical actions, can momentarily alleviate the dead weight of reality from an observer. ...

I never managed to be a believer because my rabbi couldn’t answer the simple question why? ‘How’ he could answer: always ‘what’, and ‘how’....

What occurs on the scale of the individual building, namely what has been discussed earlier with regard to ruins: the erosion of fo...

A storied proposal about architecture as a democracy of institutionalised reification, told from the perspective of one of its citizens. ...

Using the popularity of History novels in 1830s Paris, Theophile Gautier wrote a book that was ostensibly about the historical figure Mlle d...

The post in which I revisited an old text talked about a form of heaviness, a solid presence which I often feel weighing down from somewher...

I wrote this a couple of years ago as a cathartic exercise through which I wanted to give form to, while also venting some frustrations, que...

I wrote the extract below (after the dotted line) for another blog-thing about a month ago after having been to see Mark Leckey (last year’s...

Bin London has changed alot in the past decade, and while I don’t agree with those who opine that the very “soul” of the city has been lost ...

Bin In another of Meireles’ installations I was leaning across a farm gate, looking through a metal grille, which was apparently attached to...