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Not Being There… Venice and the Architecture Biennale
by Herbert Wright If you were at the Venice Architecture Biennale opening, you may have found me there, but only if you had a QR reader. My voice speaks from a Kowloon neighbourhood in a film at the Hong Kong … Continue reading
Confessions of an Architecture Critic
by Herbert Wright In 2018, architectural writing, mainly for Blueprint magazine, took me to 10 countries beyond the UK. In 2019, the same again. I sometimes reached Paris or Berlin by rail or bus, but usually the trips were by … Continue reading
City of the Singularity part 3: Hello, Bomb?
The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged us into scenes that feel like science fiction films. Downtown streets are eerily deserted, shop staff look at us through shiny face visors, we watch vehicles spraying disinfectant across cities on the other side of … Continue reading
A spotlight on Shenzhen’s Urban Villages… and the future of cities
Shenzhen seems to be the ultra-modern super-scaled metropolis, but it also presents a very different urbanist model, one hidden in its urban villages. Continue reading
Our Proposal to Curate the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019: NO WAY BACK from the FUBuLoUS Team
In October 2017, I led a team to respond to an Open Call for Curator of Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT) 2019. We called ourselves FUBuLoUS and our proposal was titled NO WAY BACK. OAT received 71 curatorial proposals from across … Continue reading
For the Record: Professor Paweł Machcewicz’s last interview as director of the Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland, 31/3/2017
Just before his controversial dismissal as director of The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, Paweł Machcewicz gave a final interview Continue reading
Paul Nash at Tate Britain
Paul Nash at Tate Britain October 2016 to 5 March 2017 – a review by Herbert Wright We see him standing in a big coat in a short 1940 film, intense eyes flicking from sketchbook to a field of Luftwaffe wreckage gathered in … Continue reading
Short Talk about Migrating Studios, the Future of Creative Spaces
A short introductory talk given 26th September 2015 for a panel discussion in the Design Museum‘s Super Talks, on the theme: Migrating Studios? The Future of Creative Spaces I’ll just throw out a few obvious thoughts and questions, and some … Continue reading
Skyscrapers: Herbert Wright interviewed by Daniel García Casillas for Metro World News July 2015
(This interview was part of an article by Daniel García Casillas for syndication within Metro’s newspapers, and it has appeared in editions from Santiago to Montreal) What the benefits of high buildings for a city? The denser our cities, the … Continue reading
Milan’s Three-Billion-Euro Menu, Eat In or Take Away
Some say it’s a waste of time and money, but there may just be a message to save the planet at Milan’s Expo 2015 ‘Touch the Window’, said a notice at an optician’s in Milan’s Via Carducci. On May Day, … Continue reading
