Intuitive – The Drouth

11th May 2025

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ANALOGUES OF McEWAN by Johnny Rodger

The recent opening of the exhibition of drawings 'Tracing Rossi' at the Stallan Brand studio gallery in Glasgow offered an opportunity to examine author Cameron McEwan's in-depth published study of the influential architect Aldo Rossi. Via discussion of a relatively obscure and neglected project by Rossi, the book 'Analogical City' makes weighty claims for architecture as a poetic, political and above all, critical practice. Johnny Rodger reviews.

19th April 2025

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STREET CLUTTER by Maria Burke

I am a walker – I love walking. I love the freedom of roaming around, being curious, looking for often-missed details. I walk on mycommute to work; I walk to get my steps in; I walk to take photographs for content for my Twitter and Instagram pages; I walk out of necessity because inner-city parking is too costly and too stressful and public transport is increasingly getting more expensive. I am a proud pedestrian.

4th April 2025

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A VISIT TO A MUSEUM WHERE TIME DOES NOT EXIST by Mark Rego

A meditation on time in architecture by philosopher and architect Mark Rego. In this piece Rego examines the apparently paradoxical union in an art museum of a painter who rejected time, and an architect 'whose works are perhaps some of the most embodied in temporality.' Alvaro Siza's Museu de Arte Contemporanea in Chaves, Portugal to house the works of Nadir Afonso.

4th April 2025

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trump by OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS

Owen Dudley Edwards rewrites the understanding of genre and sees satire as a form of literary criticism. His knowledge of mid-twentieth century literature is both encyclopaedic and peculiar. Wodehouse, for example, is always an anomaly, but using his works as a handrail to guide us round the voids created by a current day fascist is weirdly novel.