Negroni Talks

Negroni Talk #S7 - FROM HERO TO (NET)ZERO: Carbon Footprints We are in a climate emergency and the built environment contributes 30-40% of the world’s carbon emissions. We have to do something about ...

5 Apr 20231h 1min

Talking Shit! DRAIN AGE Stone Age... Iron Age... we are now living through the Drain Age... Regular news reports of flash flooding showing homes filled with filthy water suggest that our treatment o...

2 Mars 20231h 14min

‘Affordable’ : The Problem With Affordable Housing In the age of austerity 'affordable housing' is heralded as a basic requirement for new build housing schemes, with any project that doesn't deliver...

27 Feb 20231h 40min

Mind The Gap: The Chasm Between Practice And Education After years spent designing wondrous master-plans for fictional cities, debating the rights and wrongs of the Frankfurt School and churning out ...

27 Feb 20231h 7min

Londons Borderlands: Territorial Pissings? (Borderlands: Boundaries Within The City State) London is a wonderful metropolis but those that live and work in the city know that it is really the congr...

27 Feb 202348min

I’m So Bored With The RIBA: Irrelevance Institutionalised? Everyone loves taking a swipe at the RIBA. Either it's out of date, too bureaucratic, too ineffective, too expensive, too London centric and...

27 Feb 20231h 6min

Fail Safe, Safe Fail, Fail Better! In engineering and design, a fail-safe is a system that mitigates further harm or failure. Mistakes, bad decisions and a lack of skill can cause great harm to pro...

27 Feb 20231h 20min

Thick As A Brick: Dis Honesty And Architecture… Over years of architectural and building history, the approach to design has frequently been supported by claims of being honest to material, form and ...

23 Feb 20231h 29min