PhD University of Sheffield

I completed PhD at the Sheffield School of Architecture in February 2022, the thesis is titled "The Architects’ Revolutionary Council: Architectural anarchy in Britain & Ireland in the 1970s and how to destroy the R.I.B.A." It addresses the undocumented history and impact of alternative, anarchist and radical moments in English architecture, with a particular focus on the domestic dwelling and the involvement of ‘others’ in ‘doing architecture’. Specifically I have concentrated on the development of community resistance to mass/masterplanned redevelopment in the 1970s in Britain & Ireland.
My thesis has developed as an exploration of anarchism and anarchist modes of organisation, especially non-architects asserting “accidentally anarchist” control over the built environment.

Poster by the Architects' Revolutionary Council (1974)

Poster by the Architects' Revolutionary Council (1974)