James Heartfield

With a foreword by Robert Bruegmann

We are...

Kate Moorcock Abley, Managing Director of audacity, and editor of audacity publications. Kate works as a researcher on commercial and institutional programmes. A teacher by training, she previously worked on the Sport Programme at the Big Lottery Fund, in the planning and monitoring of capital and social projects. Kate invites research proposals.

Ian Abley, Project Manager for audacity, and an experienced site Architect. He is interested in everything between the manufacturing of vacuum insulation and the building of mile high towers. He is co-author of Why is construction so backward? (2004) and co-editor of Manmade Modular Megastructures. (2006) He is planning 250 new British towns.

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 Green Capitalism - Manufacturing Scarcity in an age of abundance. (2008) James enjoys public debate and speaks widely in support of industrial development.

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) He is co-author with Joe Kaplinsky of Energ!se: A future for energy innovation. (2009) More to follow...

Contributors...

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.

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. Colin argues for Pattern Books.

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. He invites commissions.

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.

Hugh Pavletich, has a background in property development in New Zealand. He has worked as a lobbyist, and lobbies for housing affordability, with an interest in popular aspirations. Hugh initiated the Annual International Housing Affordability Survey with Wendell Cox of Demographia in 2004. He runs Performance Urban Planning.

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.

Jonathan Schwinge was a scholarship diploma student at the Architectural Association. His "Airlander" project was exhibited in the Ford Journey Zone at the Millennium Dome in 2000. Working for various commercial architects he started Schwinge Ltd in 2005, as an inventive design and technology driven office. He works on audacity publications.

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.

Andrew Brooks is a photographer, a conceptual digital artist and film maker living and working in Manchester. He says '... no matter how much digital application is going on, the atmosphere and feel of a picture is always the most important thing.' Andrew’s creative process often results in capturing hundreds of images to create a complete work.

Simon Punter works for advertising agencies, designers, magazine and book publishers, engineers, and government agencies. He works on location and from his 500 square foot studio space in Hove, near Brighton. His work is completely colour managed, and he welcomes unusual assignments. He has recently been photographing from cranes.

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