Let's Build!
Why we need five million
new homes in the next
10 years
With a foreword by Robert Bruegmann
What we do...
audacity is a campaigning company concerned with the design and production of the man-made environment, advocating development free from the burden of 'sustainababble' and 'communitwaddle'. Moralising environmentalists and peddlers of "social inclusion" need challenging.
audacity argues for accelerating and advancing development to support the benefits of British and international population growth, promotes high levels of immigration, and applauds greater social aspiration. We believe in expanding political freedoms to build a material world fit for humanity.
audacity organises authoritative international research, engaging seminars, large conferences, a provocative website and a dynamic school of writers, public speakers and photographers. Read us, listen to us, argue with us, write for us and sponsor us with cash!
We are...
Kate Moorcock Abley, Managing Director of
audacity, and editor of audacity publications. Kate is a former Case Manager
for the PE and Sport Programme at the Big Lottery Fund, involving capital
project, business plan, and social use planning and monitoring.
Ian Abley, Project Manager for audacity,
Architect, Research Engineer at the Centre for Innovative and Collaborative
Engineering, Loughborough University, co-author of Why is construction so
backward? (2004) and co-editor of Manmade Modular Megastructures
(2006)
James Heartfield, Director of audacity, author
of The 'Death of the Subject' Explained, (2002) Let's Build! - Why we
need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006) and most recently
Green Capitalism - Manufacturing Scarcity in an age of abundance
(2008)
James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and
Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, Board member of the Housing
Forum, accomplished public speaker, Director of audacity, and co-author of
Why is construction so backward? (2004)
Contributors...
Colin Davies, Professor of Architecture at
London Metropolitan University, he is the author of The Prefabricated Home
(2005), and Key Houses of the Twentieth Century (2006). Architect,
teacher, writer and historian, he believes that technology, history and theory
are closer than is normally supposed and often overlap.
Graham Barnfield, 2003 Fellow of the
Wilsonian-FIU, he has written widely on US Cultural politics and policy in
1930s America. A programme leader in journalism at the University of East
London, he is an affiliate editor of Reconstruction and MagLab.
Graham is a freelance writer with experience of the booming economies of the
Middle East.
Owen Hatherley, researching Everyday Life,
Mass Production, Mass Politics and the Avant Garde in Weimar Germany and the
USSR, 1917-1934, his PhD at Birkbeck College, London. Owen blogs on
Architecture, Cultural Studies and Politics, and writes for Socialist
Worker, Historical Materialism, and Archinect.
Stanley Mathews, awarded his Ph.D. in
Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University in 2003, with his
doctoral dissertation on Cedric Price’s Fun Palace and the Potteries
Thinkbelt, published as From Agit-Prop to Free Space (2007). He is an
architect, architectural historian, and writer, teaching at Hobart and William
Smith Colleges.
Tony Pierce, with over 30 years experience in
local government, is the Director of Urbisnet Consulting Limited; for clients
looking for a systems-thinking approach to the management and improvement of
town planning, housing, and regeneration services. He believes in planning
strategically on a scale to advance the pace of architectural production.
Matthew Priestman, the founding partner of
Priestman Architects, London, established in 1994, and working in Europe, Hong
Kong and China. Matthew has assisted the British Antarctic Survey, and likes to
explore environmental extremes. He is keen to work creatively in collaborative
ways with other architects, within project design teams.
Photographers...
audacity organises authoritative international research, engaging seminars, large conferences, and a provocative website. Our work would have been far less successful without the support given by a number of professional photographers, who we heartily recommend.
Simon Punter
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