Philip Wilkinson is the author of over 40 books, including The English Buildings Book, and a new book called The High Street, written in conjunction with a major BBC TV series. Happily for us, he's also the curator of the English Buildings Blog, a firm favorite here at The Dabbler. ... Read More...
Architecture
Philip Wilkinson is the author of over 40 books, including The English Buildings Book, and a new book called The High Street, written in conjunction with a major BBC TV series. Happily for us, he's also the curator of the English Buildings Blog, a firm favorite here at The Dabbler. ... Read More...
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. J. G. Ballard Aerial ... Read More...
Surrey has a famously undistinguished architectural history, at least in terms of grand houses or fine medieval churches - but it had its brief golden age, when a clutch of architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries became fascinated by the riches of its vernacular architecture, got to ... Read More...
Richard Taylor’s programme Churches: How to Read Them is showing on BBC4 (let’s face it, BBC4 is currently justifying the license fee on its own, with precious little help from elsewhere) and, a few episodes behind, on BBC2 on Friday evenings. Despite our supposed national Godlessness, countless people visit Britain’s churches every day, but how many of us ... Read More...
