Skateboarding and the City – Interview with Philip Nobel

In preparation and to form part of my research agenda for the skateboarding and architecture essay I asked architecture writer, critic, and publicist Ian Volner to Interview Philip Nobel. Philip is an architecture writer and fixture in New York design circles. About a year ago Philip gave up New York for skateboarding. I wanted to [...]

Women In Architecture: By Women In Architecture

Over the last couple of months Tom Mallory co-founder of OpenBuildings.com and an author at the Huffington Post has been interviewing women to talk about their underrepresentation in the industry. I was lucky enough to share my opinion on the topic. The full interview can be found here and includes projects and opinions from prominent [...]

Skateboarding and Architecture

Architecture is fundamentally limited to the conception of the building-as-object: a theoretical and historical fixation that erases the social and political experiences of the city. The following was written through the theories of Ian Borden, author of Skateboarding, Space and the city: Architecture and the Body.
Skateboarding as a process for rethinking architectures manifold possibilities:
My interest [...]

Architecture and Anarchy

Unfortunately it has been a while since I posted on Archi-Ninja. Many exciting things have been happening in last couple of months. I have graduated from my Masters of Architecture degree at UTS. I have travelled Europe and America and spent time visiting amazing offices around the world from BIG (Copenhagen) to Frank Gehry (Los [...]

Shanghai 2010 World Expo

I recently asked Ian Volner to comment on the purpose and implications of the upcoming Shanghai 2010 World Expo. Ian Volner is a writer, critic, and publicist living in Manhattan. A regular contributor to Architectural Record and Bookforum among other journals, he’s presently at work on a book about planning and public housing in 1960s [...]

The Future of Architectural Criticism

Australian Design Review (ADR) recently asked me to comment on how the Internet has affected design journalism, and what the future might hold for architectural criticism. You can check out the full article here, or pick up the April/May issue of Architectural Review Australia.

Can blogs change the way we understand and produce Architecture?

Plan magazine is an architecture and interior design magazine straight out of Ireland and the UK.. In this month’s issue, they put a question out to design bloggers asking why they think blogs could change the way we understand and produce Architecture.
The following design bloggers were featured in the article:
‘The Pro’ – John Hill
Blogs: [...]

Architecture’s Challenge

In a rapidly growing urban world, slums and informal settlements provide shelter for a sixth of the planet’s population and unless effective action is taken they are likely to become the most common form of dwelling on earth by 2030.
Parallel to this lies another inconvenient truth that architecture as a profession is affecting no more [...]

‘Soundscrapers’ – Designing with Sound

This post was written by Nick Sowers. Nick is practicing the construction of space with sound and 2×4s in the SF Bay area. He is finishing an M.Arch at UC Berkeley this May after a year of traveling around the world studying militarized landscapes, bunkers, US bases, memorials, and more. Visit his blog

I first became [...]

Architecture’s role in future lifestyles

indesignlive.com recently asked me in what way i thought Architecture can respond to future lifestyles? My response was underpinned by the concept that we need to support the profession as a broader and more experimental industry. If we do so, we can begin to define our understanding of Architecture not as an isolated building or [...]