I went to Berlin for Concrete Quarterly to review David Chipperfield’s gateway to the city’s Museum Island – and discovered the importance of architectural purposelessness
James Simon Galerie, Berlin
The history men
I interviewed Historic England’s Geraint Franklin about his book Howell Killick Partridge & Amis, in which he gives a comprehensive tour of one of the Modern movement’s leading practices and explains how their expressive design language was as much about historic allusion as the shock of the new
Back to our Brutes
I interviewed Barnabas Calder for The Architectural Historian about his new book Raw Concrete – a robust defence of the 20th century’s most robust architectural style
Keeping the party going
Adrian Tinniswood’s The Long Weekend charts the story of the English country house between the wars. I spoke to him for The Architectural Historian about how new meanings were brought to an old tradition
First World War memorials
The symbolic power of concrete is being used to express the meaning of the conflict 100 years on. A review for Concrete Quarterly, Summer 2015
