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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)
Poster by the Architects' Revolutionary Council (1974)Poster by the Architects' Revolutionary Council (1974)