Just worked out it's a translation of a book I know in English! Thank you for letting me know it's in German too.

Thank you! The book is gettable if relevant (cheaper than most academic books as e book or paperback), or if you can wait we're getting a bit of it made free open access thanks to the Andrew Pullin Fund at U of Liverpool.

No age limit on it. There's a certain amount of academic experience required before starting a PhD but that's the only limiting factor.

Thank you - I think it's likely to be really revealing and there's masses of good archive and other evidence to work with.

It's not, I'm afraid - we're looking for a good candidate to apply with Alex Buchanan and me as supervisors to a fund that might well support it. So we'd love to have interested MA students put in touch with us!

Thank you! And yes, it's a great shot, isn't it? Such an interesting moment of transition.

We're planning to help the candidate to apply for a funding stream with quite a good chance of success, if that makes a difference.

An aerial view of part of the Uni of Liverpool campus in the 1960s, showing demolitions and new buildings.

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool?

If so could you point them in my direction?

If you're not following Frans Saraste, it's time to take a hard look at your priorities and values. Or you could just follow him, I suppose.

Enjoy him while he lasts - in the South East they've been dying out from a mosquito-born infection. 😢

Authors of Urbanism: Form Follows Fuel with Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban Join authors Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban to a look to the past for inspiration in the urgent fight against climate change

Please join
@barnabascalder.bsky.social and me for a talk next Wednesday, 18 March, 6 pm for the Academy of Urbanism in the office of Collective Architecture, at 13 Bath Street in Glasgow, www.theaou.org/events/autho...

Book review: Architecture From Prehistory to Climate Emergency, by Barnabas Calder ACAN’s Joe Giddings reviews Barnabas Calder’s ground-breaking new history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

Maize, rice, and wheat can be stored for up to a decade or more, and from those, cities are built.

"Goliath's Curse" is great to read when paired with:
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/cul... by @barnabascalder.bsky.social

All the credit for that to Christina! Amazing work!

Book Launch: Form Follows Fuel Join Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban for the launch of 'Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age' exploring how energy has shaped architecture.

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
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#architecture #energy #environment #climatecrisis #ecology #sustainability

Book Launch: Form Follows Fuel Join Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban for the launch of 'Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age' exploring how energy has shaped architecture.

Two events next week for @florianurban.bsky.social and my book with @johnczulowskiburns.bsky.social, Form Follows Fuel. Come to a discussion with @jeremytill.bsky.social and Anthony Powis at U of Westminster on Tuesday, or our London book launch Wednesday 5pm at the Bartlett.
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Why did UCL settle? As you say, it was grotty luck to be a student during the pandemic but we didn't have any choice but to move online, and resumed studio as soon as we were allowed. Whom do I get to sue for the fact that it wasn't great for my children of 1 and 5 at lockdown 1?

Thank you so much - I'm glad it's proven useful.

Front Row - Review: Wuthering Heights film and Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies - BBC Sounds Former artistic director Jude Kelly on the Southbank Centre being Grade II listed.

I was on BBC R4 today talking about the beautiful South Bank Centre. Starts 19 mins in.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Winter Olympics Report 3 - Off Track YouTube video by New Weather Institute

Here's me prompted by Matt Rendell to risk the opinion that perhaps the #winterolympics could be less #climatecrisis and ecosystem destructive:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhW...

Yes, that's a weird one. Acknowledging the architectural origins, choosing a very odd source to cite for it, and then jumping to neoliberalism, is quite the rollercoaster.

Mutually so - thank you so much for coming.

Prof Tim Waterman lecturing to an audience in Liverpool.

Great to have @tim-waterman.co.uk speaking at Liverpool School of Architecture today. Masses of thought-provoking insights on our perceptions of our planet, and even some hopeful notes, which is quite a hard thing to achieve in January 2026.

Am I right in thinking it's all heat-treated as part of the processing? How much does that affect its embodied energy consumption?

It's nice, isn't it? I'll have to have a look at the Paddington one. It's weird how little I've used Paddington in my life.

The correct answer was:

Snap! And the carpet commissioning policy, too. But yes, another casualty of 2016.

Hahaha! Excellent trolling, then!

I will once I've given people longer to not recognise it first.

Nope! Sounds worth a visit, though.

A light fitting and the top of a pilaster

Guess #whatbuilding: