January 2025:
An essay on the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester, in Building Design.
A review of Mark B. Smith’s Exit Stalin, in the New Statesman.
December 2025:
A conversation with the photographer Jack Hems about Poundbury, in AA Files 82.
November 2025:
On Christina Kiaer’s Collective Body – Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism, in Sidecar.
An essay on Southampton in the anthology The Modern British City, edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith.
An essay about China urbanism Influencers on YouTube, in The Ideas Letter.
An ‘in detail’ piece on Jan Zalud’s ‘Head’ in the Southampton City Art Gallery, for the print Apollo.
A piece on the East German ‘rubble film’, in the Quietus.
A review of a new book on Shonandai Culture Centre, in the print Tribune.
A long essay on the historiography of ‘socialist modernist’ architecture of Eastern Europe and the USSR, in the New Left Review.
October 2025:
An essay on ‘Mid-Century Modern’ in southeast London, in the LRB.
A review of Isaac Stanley-Becker’s Europe without Borders, in the Architectural Review’s Borders Issue.
September 2025:
On Rab-Rab, a publisher, in Sidecar.
On the architecture and morality of Novodevichy Cemetery, in Fallow 02.
A short history of Shenzhen, for the print Jacobin.
August 2025:
An essay on the decline, fall and rise of the public toilet, in the print Tribune.
An essay on the Liberty department store in London, in the box/book I Am. We Are. Liberty.
A long review-essay on English architectural monographs, in New York Review of Architecture.
July 2025:
Episode sixth and final of Inter-Cities, with Brian Hioe on Taipei at Daybreak.
Two book recommendations for ‘Granta Summer Reads’.
A review of Richard J. Williams’ The Expressway World, in Sidecar.
June 2025:
Episode five of Inter-Cities, with Yair Wallach on Jerusalem in Mandate Palestine.
A piece on John MacLean’s photographs of Mock Tudor McDonalds restaurants in the print Source.
A piece on the ‘skyscraper index’ for the print Jacobin.
A new introduction to the Zer0 Classics edition of Ivor Southwood’s Non-Stop Inertia.
May 2025:
Episode four of Inter-Cities, with Ievgeniia Gubkina on Kharkiv as capital of Ukraine.
‘Reading Capitalist Realism in Shenzhen’, for Sidecar.
A piece on the fiction of Izumi Suzuki, in the print Tribune.
April 2025:
Episode three of InterCities, with Dubravka Sekulic on Belgrade and the Non-Aligned Movement.
An autobiographical piece on council housing, for the new issue of Autoportret, in Polish translation.
March 2025:
A critical history of the Manic Street Preachers, for Sidecar.
The Story of Solent City, a radio programme.
The Alienation Effect, a book.
A survey of Central European music in mid-20th century Britain for The Quietus.
Episode two of Inter-Cities, with Johny Pitts, on Sheffield in the 1990s.
A text for Inside Jonathan Meades, an exhibition at the Cite Radieuse in Marseille.
A short piece for World of Interiors about Carlo Scarpa.
Two pieces for Jacobin’s ‘Progress’ issue – an interview with Simon Reynolds on his book Futuromania, and an essay on ‘Solarpunk’ memes and ecomodernist architecture.
An introduction and archive picture research for Dmytro Soloviov’s book Ukrainian Modernism.
An introduction for the photographer Rob Clayton’s book Provision.
A piece on post-Soviet architecture in the print Red Pepper.
February 2025:
The first episode of Inter-Cities, a new podcast series for Open City, with Ana Francisco Sutherland, on Blackheath and Greenwich from the 1950s to the 1970s.
A review of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, for Apollo.
A long review of Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard’s Modern Graphic Design in Britain, for Sidecar.
An illustrated piece on the Isle of Wight for issue 170 of Granta.
An essay on state socialist restaurants and their legacies for the print Tribune.
December 2024:
A short essay on Anthony Crosland for the print Jacobin.
A piece on Victor Petrov’s Balkan Cyberia for Sidecar.
A review of Simon Jenkins’ A Short History of British Architecture, for Architects’ Journal.
A piece on the Isokon building and Edith Tudor-Hart, for Apollo.
November 2024:
A review of Tom Wilkinson’s Emergency Money in the print Tribune.
On the Derzhprom building in Kharkiv, for Art Review.
October 2024:
On Verity-Jane Keefe’s From Social to Sociable, for Sidecar.
An essay on the architecture of nuclear war for the Architectural Review’s Concrete Issue.
A piece on Wyndham Lewis for the print Jacobin.
A gallery text for Nicolas Grospierre’s A House for Culture at SARP in Warsaw.
September 2024:
An essay on Fredric Jameson for the New Statesman.
A long essay originally written for somewhere else about Japanese 1980s pop music, at Blue Labyrinths.
An essay on the writing and filmmaking of Oleksiy Radynski, for Sidecar.
August 2024:
A review of Tamara Deutscher’s Not By Politics Alone – the Other Lenin in the print Tribune.
An essay on Arndale and other inner-city shopping centres for Vittles.
An essay on the painting ‘Hammer and Sickle’ in the book Andrzej Wróblewski: Exhibiting.
July 2024:
A piece on the socialism of Studio Ghibli, for the print Jacobin.
A piece on Johny Pitts in Sidecar.
A long review of Andy Beckett’s The Searchers, in NLR.
June 2024:
A piece on the campaign to save Smallbrook Queensway in Birmingham, for Untapped.
A piece for Red Pepper’s Keywords on the term ‘tankie’, in its 30th anniversary issue.
May 2024:
An essay on T.W Adorno’s aesthetics, in the LRB.
A review of Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear’s Dissonant Waves, in Sidecar.
April 2024:
An essay on the Churches of the Polish People’s Republic, in the print Jacobin.
March 2024:
A column on the south London housing of Peter Barber Architects in Dezeen.
February 2024:
A contribution to the Critique of the Sugar Tax, in Vittles.
An essay about the Collected Works of Caruso St John for Sidecar.
A short piece on Surrey Quays for the LRB.
January 2024:
A review of J.G Ballard’s Selected Nonfiction for the print Jacobin.
A piece on Lenin and London buses, in the book Lenin: The Heritage We (Don’t) Renounce.
An essay on ‘trad’ v ‘mod’ architecture style wars, for Aeon.
A review of Robin Schuldenfrei’s Objects in Exile for Apollo.
December 2023:
An essay on ‘Now and Then’ ‘by’ ‘The Beatles’ in Sidecar.
An interview and an essay in the book Dunelm House – One Ruin too Many.
A short piece on transparency in architecture for Nook magazine.
An essay on architecture and demolition for Art Review.
A piece on Open Doors Engadin for St Moritz Magazine.
November 2023:
An essay on Matthew Gandy’s Natura Urbana, for Sidecar.
October 2023:
An interview with Kate Macintosh on her architecture, for the print Jacobin.
An interview with Łukasz Stanek on the planning of Baghdad, for Jacobin.
A long essay on Transformers, for New Socialist.
September 2023:
An article on Herman Jessor for the Architectural Review.
A review of The Ideal Communist City for the New York Review of Architecture.
July 2023:
An essay on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Riot in Lagos’ for the Jencks Foundation’s ‘1980 in Parallax’ series.
A short piece on Japanese toilets for the RIBA Journal.
June 2023:
A piece on David Harvey for the New Statesman.
A review of Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors for the LRB.
A piece on historical reconstruction for Apollo.
A piece on the writing of Alex Niven, for Jacobin.
An interview with Sheila Fitzpatrick about her book White Russians, Red Peril, for Jacobin.
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