Paul Dobraszczyk
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Magpie architectural writer and image maker. 'Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us' out now with Reaktion Books.
Manchester, England
Joined October 2010
Applying for academic promotion is like writing a memoir with all the interesting bits taken out.
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Four lovely juvenile swallows with their banana mouths, found in a summer house at Haddon Hall in the Peak District
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I have just discovered Twin Peaks, the Return. Wish me luck.
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Scenes from the Buxton carnival last Saturday: a fine display of English eccentricity and children mostly enjoying themselves being put on display
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How splendid is this! A gorgeous piece in Places, where I chat with architect Joyce Hwang and anthropologist Richard Fadok about animals and architecture.
placesjournal.org
An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.
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I wrote a short article on green architecture - have a look here
theconversation.com
The ‘green walls’ you might have seen on city centre buildings are just the start.
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Today's view from Deansgate, Manchester, with a tiny fluorescent-jacketed builder included for scale
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The ruins of Hotspur House in Manchester, destroyed by fire last week. 'Creative destruction' is what they call it I believe.
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Three new stark juxtapositions of old and new in Manchester, which seems to be the city's leitmotif (if a musical analogy is the right one)
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Trees conserve around 1% of the energy they get from the sun - the other 99% is wasted. And yet we continue to insist that being ecological means conserving not squandering energy.
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My top ten films of the last 25yrs - although tomorrow they'd mostly be different
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A really nice review of my old/new book Future Cities. And I sorely needed cheering up today.
morningstaronline.co.uk
Future Cities: Architecture and the ImaginationPaul Dobraszczyk, Reaktion, £18ALASDAIR GRAY wrote in his classic novel Lanark – itself a multidecade exploration of the city as a symbol:
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