Side projects

As you may have noticed from the pics on this website, I’ve got something of a fascination with mid-century architecture. (Largely because I see it as an embodiment of the post-war consensus. Yes, much of it was naive, and much was misguided, but it does generally reflect a genuine desire to build a better world – quite literally.) 

My words and photographs on the subject have appeared in several places, often courtesy of the most excellent Modernist Society. So, if you’re interested, do take a look:

• Exploring Modernistyczny Poznań – a chapter in the travel book, Adventures in the Land of Modernism, covering the architectural delights of the Polish city of Poznań
• How Grey Was My Valley – a photo-zine, available in both English and Welsh, which celebrates the magnificent but fast-disappearing post-war architecture of Wales
• Forgotten Welsh architecture, in pictures – a photo-feature in the Guardian (yes, very exciting…) coinciding with the launch of How Grey Was My Valley  
• Good intentions, elegant architecture, and a useless young man – an article on post-war architecture in Nigeria commissioned by the excellent White Heat of Modernity blog
• Braw Concrete – an entire book, co-authored with my good friend Alan Stewart, on the treasure trove of post-war architecture to be found in Glasgow 
• Glasgow’s concrete buildings reflect a time when people dared to dream – a by-lined article in the Scotsman coinciding with the launch of Braw Concrete (the book was also covered in Glasgow’s Sunday Post, The Herald, The Evening Times, Urban Ream magazine, and the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society)
• The Grey Remembered Hills – a piece on the unlikely cluster of high-quality municipal modernism lurking up here in rural Shropshire, which appears in issue 45 of The Modernist magazine

Don’t worry, there’s no cross-over with my everyday work, and I promise not to drone on about any of this. But I guess it reflects the fact that my content is eminently publishable, whatever the subject.