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I am a camera
Articles, journal entries and images reflecting on places, often cities. The title is lifted from Christopher Isherwood: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
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Queenslanders
Brisbane’s vernacular domestic architecture
Dan Hill
Oct 16, 2016
The pool as piazza
The pool as piazza
The public pool as public space
Dan Hill
May 11, 2016
A walk in Schöneberg, Berlin: energy policy, gentrification, protest, and the humble joys of…
A walk in Schöneberg, Berlin: energy policy, gentrification, protes...
I didn’t think that a humble flower bed could have quite this effect. The verges — for they numerous, every few metres — turned out to be…
Dan Hill
May 6, 2012
Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects, and designing for the occupation of space in contemporary…
Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects, and designing for the occu...
An illicit visit to a chunk of Beijing in transition, in October 2009
Dan Hill
Apr 10, 2011
Old and New Finnish Grammar
Old and New Finnish Grammar
I’ve been learning Finnish for over a year now, and am getting nowhere fast. Finnish is a notoriously difficult language to learn …
Dan Hill
Oct 25, 2012
Finlandia: the greatest architectural mistake ever made? Aalto’s benign errors
Finlandia: the greatest architectural mistake ever made? Aalto’s be...
I’ve been to Helsinki a couple of times this year. (Ed. This piece written in 2010.) It’s one of my favourite cities — civic, compact…
Dan Hill
Oct 4, 2010
Moscow, the Narkomfin Building and the Melnikov House, December 2014
Moscow, the Narkomfin Building and the Melnikov House, December 2014
In Moscow, for two days, for the Urban Forum, and various meetings.
Dan Hill
Dec 14, 2014
‘Bullitt’, ‘Drive’ and walking the LA River
‘Bullitt’, ‘Drive’ and walking the LA River
A walk through Los Angeles’s legal and physical grey areas
Dan Hill
Apr 13, 2012
Brief notes on Seattle
Brief notes on Seattle
I visited Seattle recently, for the IDEA 2006 conference at the Seattle Public Library. More on both of those subjects later. Meanwhile…
Dan Hill
Nov 24, 2006
In Every Dream Home A Heartache: The Great Australian Dream and its architecture
In Every Dream Home A Heartache: The Great Australian Dream and its...
Searching for both architecture and urbanism in the Australian A+U
Dan Hill
Sep 16, 2007
Jonathan Raban at London Review bookshop, August 2003
Jonathan Raban at London Review bookshop, August 2003
Reading from Waxwings, writing about places
Dan Hill
Aug 27, 2003
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