Technological Folklore

This is a short essay on the work of Valdis Celms, a Latvian artist and designer that I have long … More

Culture Bunkers

This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book, … More

This exhibition was mounted at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, in spring 2023. Curated by Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, … More

This is a link to a new article that explores the ways in which the rise of the Solidarity independent … More

This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More

If you read Polish, here is a long essay on ‘real existing Modernism’ in the PRL. Click here. it appears … More

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … More

This lecture was given at the Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe) in November 2019. The theme of the event was the … More

This short essay was published in Helene Doudova, ed., Shared Cities Atlas. Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central … More

In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More