In 1983 or 1984, I had a good look around Charles Jencks’s Thematic House, then recently completed. It is now … More
Category: Architecture
State of the planet
At the age of eighteen I was a dope-smoking, layabout, benefit-scrounging squatter. During this phase of my life I was … More
Journey’s end
Eight kilometres to the north, and many lifetimes away from Noto, lie the remains of its corpse. Here was journey’s … More
History dissembled
Noto, like other cities in the southeast of Sicily, is a near perfect encapsulation of the Sicilian Baroque, built on … More
The island’s amnesiac heart
At the approximate heart of the island of Sicily there is a site which it is hard not to regard … More
Traversing epistemologies
The Cattedrale di Palermo is a chimaera of architectural styles and periods. If someone had drawn it from their imagination, … More
History, re-mediated
‘Palazzo’ is a term that is bandied about quite casually in Italy, and although it is technically cognate with ‘palace’, … More
