New Writing

May 2024:

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.