acknowledgements

The contents of this book appeared in various forms, in various media. They were published or otherwise disseminated by the following: The Academy of Urbanism, BBC2 and BBC4, Building, Dillington House, The Independent on Sunday, Intelligent Life, Liverpool School of Architecture, the Lowdham Festival, the National Gallery, openDemocracy, the Prince’s Foundation, RIBA, The Times, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Victorian Society, the Woodchester Mansion Trust.

Scripts are merely blueprints. Those included here were brought to life by a group of people with whom I have amiably collaborated over many years: Frank Hanly, Martha Wailes, Rob Payton, Tim Niel, Colin Murray, Russell England, Allan Campbell, Andrea Miller, Anthony Wall, John Whiston, Simon Holland, Jim Allison, Michael Fenton Stevens, Simon Mulligan, Emma Matthews, the late Nick Rossiter, Riaz Meer, Paul Ingvasson, Angela Slaven, Kirsty Hanly, Lesley Smith-Glasgow, Rachel Mackenzie, Phil Molloy, Pete Stanton, Christopher Biggins, Alastair McCormick, Luke Cardiff, Jamie Flynn, Martin Rowson, Clem Cecil, and John Pritchard (Mr).

I’m hugely indebted to my wife Colette Forder who selected and edited this collection.