Against the turmoil of the American election and unrest elsewhere from workers who feel “left behind”, inspiration for a different future can be found in the establishment of London’s Birkbeck Collge. 1823 was a one of the more civilized years in British history. The death penalty was abolished for offences other than murder or treason,…
Last month the London School of Economics (LSE) announced the winner of an architectural competition for a building to house its new Global Centre for Social Sciences. I was prepared to dislike any winner on principle – on the principle that a university shouldn’t spend 90 million pounds on a new building – in which,…
“You see, its not only about seeing in, its about seeing out,” says my guide around the new Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. If he didn’t look so artistically fragile, I would have hug him. For weeks now I’ve been walking around London’s many university campuses attempting to understand how…
Building on Ideas 