 | 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 |
Thursday 15 October 2009, 7.30pm BDP's offices, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ
Sustainability in Architecture: Late-Nite Review
Saturday 31 October 2009, 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Bookshop Barnie at the Battle: 'Why We Disagree about Climate Change'
Sunday 1 November 2009, 12.30pm Courtyard Gallery
India's Future: Slumdogs or Millionaires?
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)
"No word was untested, no argument taken for granted, no opinion dismissed without argument nor accepted without argument."
David Jones, professor of bioethics, St Mary's University College
