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An advert for community spirit

Anyone interested in cooperative venture to build group of imaginative homes for own occupation, London area, please write Box U 1513 No, that's not my small ad, but one that went in the Times in the early 1960's, and was put there by the paper's ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  29 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Christopher Alexander

A house that is a home

Our research into what architectural features people find successful in their homes is steering away from the whizzo residences of the coffee table book variety, the new homes that are designed by starchitects. We think these are unlikely to be sources ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  25 Jan 2008

The best plans can go up in smoke

Us developers are very misunderstood. The first thing anyone thinks if you are rash enough to admit to be one is that the world of planning is deeply fishy. Of course it is, but not for the reason they think. Chimneys can be a planning nightmare What ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  21 Jan 2008

Time for the planners to pack up and go?

From recent blogs you might have got the impression I would like planners to be cut out of the design process, and that architecture is best left to architects. Housebuyers should trumpet their preferences And that I would rather than community ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  18 Jan 2008

Bring on the housing free-for-all

An earlier free-for-all saw the building of Woods' Circus in Bath Is it then ok for housebuilders (with whatever architects they might have in tow) to put up whatever they fancy? I think so. We have to start with the fact that the present system is ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  14 Jan 2008

Meddling planners impede good design

Very unprofessional I’m sure, but steam is coming out of my ears about the state of the planning system. Architects need the freedom to build their own designs I am totally fed up with the way planning offices are able to influence and distort the ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  11 Jan 2008

Pop Art Portraits: highlights

Now showing at the National Portrait Gallery in London is . The show emerges from the work of the Independent Group, artists and architects who met at the ICA in the mid 1950s to discuss contemporary culture. With my interest in what lessons volume ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  7 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Richard Hamilton

An architect's new year's resolutions

Back from a few days break in Dartmouth to find the January 3rd issue of Country Life on my doormat. Featured are 10 of the 'very best of young England': ­ painter, farmer, farrier, actress and architect. Let light pour into our homes I suppose I ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  4 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Robert Adams

Locomotive nostalgia

For us commuters, the train carriage is getting on for being home. The same old faces, the same old routine. The 'old' turbo trains permit a far greater level of intimacy But in the same way that we should be making the most of what good architecture ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  27 Dec 2007

Is democracy the death of design?

Robert Adam published his first book, something of an advertisement for this family firm, in 1764 - Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. The Coach House, thought to be Adam's first country house You might well wonder ...

From CRISPIN KELLY, The Telegraph,  17 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Robert Adam

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