 | Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities Project. An architect and project manager by profession, he was the technical editor at the Architects’ Journal; architecture critic on BBC London; and transport commentator with The Daily Telegraph. He is now an architectural producer at NBS Learning Channels and author and illustrator of Shortcuts Books 1 & 2. He is the author of The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability and founder of Manifesto Towards a New Humanism in Architecture. He is co-editor of The Future of Community; co-author of The Macro World of Microcars; and contributor to Global Warming and Other Bollocks. He is currently researching Better City: Better Life: The Challenges of an Urban World and the new editions of Shortcuts which will come out in 2011. He has written for a range of books and publications, from The Times Literary Supplement to Top Gear, from New Humanist to The Tablet. He devised and chairs the Bookshop Barnies. Contact: www.futurecities.org.uk and www.mantownhuman.org |
Saturday 12 July 2008, 2.15pm Norton Rose LLP
Dammed if you do and damned if you don’t
Thursday 23 October 2008, 6.30pm BDP's offices, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ
Innovation in Architecture Late-Nite Review
Sunday 2 November 2008, 11.00am Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The Battle for Progress
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (ed, with Alastair Donald, Martin Earnshaw and Dave Clements) (Pluto Press, 2008)
Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability (Societas, 2008)
"Taking part in the Battle of Ideas is like putting your brain in a pencil sharpener. It works better as a result."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times
