From a series written for ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. First aired on 4th November 2023 (you can listen […]
Tag Archive for ‘Le Corbusier’
Building for the soul
I’ve been familiar with the Goetheanum since I was a teenager and yet it was only last month that I […]
Long time no see
I can tell we’re getting towards the end of our renovation because my thoughts are beginning to move overseas. While […]
Design icons: Auguste Perret and the Rue Franklin apartments
From a series written for ABC Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. Rue Franklin was first broadcast on 5th November. You […]
Design icons: Charlotte Perriand
From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
Design icons: the convent of La Tourette
From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
Look at it this way
This year, most of us have become much more familiar with our direct surroundings. For a while I stopped walking […]
Zesty Zurich
If life hadn’t thrown the curve ball of a pandemic, I should have been arriving in Switzerland around now to […]
Le Corbusier’s house in Argentina
A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living […]
Ponderings from Patagonia and beyond
I haven’t blogged for a while because I was away, trying to soften the blow of turning sixty. It worked, […]
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