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I am a camera
Articles, journal entries and images reflecting on places, often cities. The title is lifted from Christopher Isherwood: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
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I am a camera
Feb 13, 2022
Towards a blueprint for the suburbs, and the centres
A radio interview on the Australian city, suburbs…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Aug 13, 2021
Truly public space rather than technically public space: making ‘platforms for outdoor gathering’
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 11, 2004
Frank Gehry’s MIT Stata Center
A brief review of the
Ray and Maria Stata Center, the new home of the…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
May 22, 2004
Batman in Bloomsbury
UCL’s Senate House standing in for Gotham City Police Headquarters
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Nov 21, 2003
Senate House, University of London
This is №2 in an irregular series of reports from London’s Open…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Mar 27, 2002
Barbican: This Was Tomorrow
Reviewing the Barbican’s exhibition about itself, 2002
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Feb 9, 2020
Sheffield: architecture and morality, ruins and austerity
Wandering around Park Hill, July 2011
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Apr 16, 2011
More than “a mere building”: Sanford Kwinter on Pompidou/Beaubourg
Was this the last time that…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 6, 2010
‘Nairn’s London’, by Ian Nairn (1966)
The best guide book to London is not really a guide book to…
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Dan Hill
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I am a camera
Oct 20, 2014
A film about Ian Nairn, and a film by Reyner Banham
The demise of the North, and the sprawl of London
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