From my regular series of Design Icons written for ABC RN Blueprint. You can find others on my main page […]
Tag Archive for ‘Loving Le Corbusier’
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 […]
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 […]
How many Le Corbusier buildings is enough?
The lovely team of Brutalists at Greyscape noticed that I have a thing for Le Corbusier and asked for my […]
Formidable Firminy
New towns don’t exactly have a great image and are often used as symbols of soullessness, like Cumbernauld in the […]
Learning from La Tourette
The sign at the entrance warns me that this is an espace de silence, a place of silence. I’m thinking […]
The Fussy Librarian: an interview
I was delighted to be invited to speak to The Fussy Librarian this week about writing (and my messy desk). […]
What’s in a name?
Do you reckon you’d feel different if you’d been called something else? I mean, if you’d been called Benedict instead […]
Utopian dreams and reality
2016 was not exactly a year filled with inspiration and it says something that many of us are greeting 2017 […]
Robert Rebutato – the apprentice of Le Corbusier
The narrow track alongside the railway at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is becoming well worn. It was always busy, being patrolled by customs […]
Colin Bisset 