Architects Journal
Ian Martin
One man's journey into architecture, with fellow travellers Dusty Penhaligon, architecture critic Darcy Farquear'say, RIPBA president Dame Helen Button, magic arborealist Isis de Cambray and HRH Prince Charles
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Re-realming can be overwhelming
14-Jun-2013
Ian Martin creates a prototype idealised model of collectivised open-plan space -
A cloudmapped happening is on the way
7-Jun-2013
Ian Martin curates this year’s Tamworth Popupalooza -
Building on our opportunistic past
31-May-2013
Ian Martin masterplans a network of organic villages -
Vulgarchitecture Today
24-May-2013
Ian Martin reflects on the lottery of life -
Obituary: T Dan Hooker, blues Modernist pioneer
21-May-2013
T DAN HOOKER - the legendary blues Modernist and last of the ‘Thames Delta Brutalists’ - has died at the age of 92 after a long battle with obscurity -
My new critical stream of thought
13-May-2013
Ian Martin redesigns the idea of British artists -
Redesigning buildings from the inside out
2-May-2013
Ian Martin organises a content management pop-up workshop -
Truism, the new nothing-newism
29-Apr-2013
Ian Martin designs a pop-up church -
The furniture’s bright, the furniture’s orange…
19-Apr-2013
Ian Martin takes a trip to Milan Furniture Fair’s smart periphery -
If it ain’t quaint, don’t fix it
12-Apr-2013
Ian Martin digests a new listed buildings policy, titled ‘Quaintity Street’. -
Understating the obvious
1-Apr-2013
Ian Martin designs the Tamworth Big PIEVILION -
A questionable endeavour
22-Mar-2013
Ian Martin presents to Institute of Plasmic Arts -
The space-time continuum continuum
15-Mar-2013
Ian Martin designs a luxury graffiti and urban skills pavilion in Brighton -
Lost in transmution
8-Mar-2013
Ian Martin visits Blingnang Freepitch -
A period of transition
28-Feb-2013
Ian Martin gives up GPS for lent -
The space bubble pops
21-Feb-2013
Ian Martin creates a prototype ‘pup-spa’ -
Plan Nine From Outsourced Space
14-Feb-2013
Ian Martin proposes the high-speed English Circle Line (ECL) -
Designing a multiple-choice me
7-Feb-2013
Ian Martin dables in architectural spread-betting -
Architecture’s big collective sigh
31-Jan-2013
Ian Martin brainstorms a new collective noun for architects -
Piracy shared is piracy doubled
24-Jan-2013
Ian Martin is nominated for a Looks Nice Award -
Twisting again, an unsure restart, glowing newts
17-Jan-2013
Ian Martin develops the inhabited windmill -
When posh comes to shove
10-Jan-2013
Ian Martin hunts an honour -
Beastly seasonal greetings
20-Dec-2012
Ian Martin talks to the animals -
Dreaming of a life beyond carbon monoxide
13-Dec-2012
Ian Martin calls in Tracey, Banksy, Damien and Grayson to imagine Preston’s Progressive Omnibus Terminus -
The ventilation system is the message
6-Dec-2012
Ian Martin is full of sparkling Christmas anticipation -
Windhampton – a breath of fresh air
29-Nov-2012
Ian Martin develops the inhabited windmill -
Dysgustopia, Intersectional Banality, and other bundlings…
22-Nov-2012
Ian Martin meets an old friend, architect Fred Trousers -
Enabling a new kind of streetlife for the super-rich
15-Nov-2012
Ian Martin redesigns the BBC -
The deserving and the undeserving moderately well-off
8-Nov-2012
Ian Martin remodels The Entire Notion Of Social Housing -
Theoretical barchitecture has its day
1-Nov-2012
Ian Martin devises some inflatable rhetoric for the mayor of London -
Getting on the right side of the North-South Theoretical Divide
25-Oct-2012
Ian Martin heads to Cumbria -
The punctuated space race has only just begun
18-Oct-2012
Ian Martin updates his twitter bio -
An interconnected world of cultural sausages
11-Oct-2012
Ian Martin designs a ‘funagogue’ -
Rebuilding democracy, one pedimented portal at a time
4-Oct-2012
Ian Martin redesigns the Ecuadorean embassy -
Thinking beyond pop-uption to metarchitecture, and then beyond that…
27-Sep-2012
Ian Martin redesigns autumn -
A ring road for aeroplanes and a farewell to the bees
13-Sep-2012
Ian Martin floats the idea of a floating airport -
Reinvigorating the countryside with exciting new dreams
6-Sep-2012
Ian Martin answers the chancellor’s call -
A warm welcome to everyone but the critics
16-Aug-2012
Ian Martin answers his critics -
The life and death of the community hub
2-Aug-2012
Ian Martin designing the World’s Fattest Building -
A performing dog decides Britain doesn’t have talent
26-Jul-2012
Ian Martin has lunch with Bauhau and his companion Darcy Farquear’say -
Design for your friends, redesign for your friends’ friends
19-Jul-2012
Ian Martin designs the new Qatar Embassy -
Everyone discounts, in large amounts
12-Jul-2012
Ian Martin pimps pimped himself on the mass-market discount network -
Up in the air and gone with the wind
5-Jul-2012
Ian Martin submits proposals for an elevated monorail
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