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Notes from last week’s Ecobuild conference
Some advice: If you’re due to speak at a seminar about the environment any time soon, please, stop to think about what your audience is likely to know already.
Ditch the stuff about how we’re all doomed and you’ve got the pie chart to prove it. We know. It’s not looking [...]

Some more entries chosen from the archives. Influential ideas from people and pages…
People

Enthusiasm for tomorrow (RIP Tony Goodall)

Memorial speech for my friend and mentor

Concrete Ideas (Denys Lasdun)

Chairs and the architects that sat in them

Letters on meditation (Matt Webb)

Learning how to let go

Wayne Jacobs (Wayne Hemingway)

Letter to the AJ about Wayne Hemingway lecture

Death of a Drawing [...]

From today’s last week’s BD magazine:

Housing Corporation chief executive Jon Rouse, who controls a £3.6 billion development budget over the next two years, outlined seven reasons for a return to suburbia and said anyone who believes the country’s housing crisis can be met through the expansion of urban centres is “frankly kidding themselves”. He said [...]