I tell, design and shape stories about the built environment. An urbanist based in London, I am a Partner at Allies and Morrison and have worked in Asia, America and the UK. I am also co-chair of the Council of the Van Alen Institute in New York, and the co-author of Complex City: London’s Changing Character, published by RIBA in partnership with Historic England.

My writing has been published in Architects’ Journal, Architectural Record, Architecture Australia, Art Review, Building Design, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The South China Morning Post, Topos, The Wall Street Journal and The World of Interiors.

Interests

Architecture and landscape criticism; global cities; rapid urbanisation; portrayals of the urban in contemporary art; the architecture of cultural institutions; communications and branding in the built environment.

Recent articles

LA Boasts the World’s Most Important Legacy of 20th Century Architecture, Dezeen

It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown, Common Edge

Architecture’s Colourful Modernities, Art Review

Every Museum Needs to Know How to Make an Entrance, Art Review

Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy: ‘This is not a retrospective’, Building Design

The National Gallery Revamp Should Be Part of a Grander Overhaul, The Architects’ Journal

What Are We Trying to Say When We Get Our Buildings Photographed, Building Design

Urban Design Library: Learning from Las Vegas, URBAN DESIGN Journal

Tomorrow Never Quite Came, Building Design

Robert Venturi (1925-2018), The Architects’ Journal

RA Rightly Casts Renzo Piano as Pragmatist and Dreamer, Building Design