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MANIFESTO
Under Capitalism: Second Manifesto of Architects for Social Housing
REPORTS & BOOKS
The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism
Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 1
The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 2
The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State
Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition
The Alternative to Demolition: Design Proposals for St. Raphael’s Estate
Virtue and Terror: Resisting the UK Biosecurity State
Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021
COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State
For a Socialist Architecture: Lectures at 221A, Vancouver
Inequality Capital: A Power Walk by Architects for Social Housing
The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Report by Architects for Social Housing
Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration
The Truth about Grenfell Tower: A Report by Architects for Social Housing
The Good Practice Guide to Resisting Estate Demolition: ASH response to the GLA
The Ethics of Estate Regeneration: ASH response to the Royal Institute of British Architects
West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates: New Homes and Improvements without Demolition. Feasibility Study Report
The Housing & Planning Bill: ASH submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee
PRESENTATIONS
Virtue and Terror / The New Normal: Book launch at the Star & Garter
What are we up against? How did we get here? What can we do about it? Presentation to the Think Twice Symposium
Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to residents, St. Patrick’s Church
St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to the Bartlett School of Architecture (housing design research workshop)
For a Socialist Architecture 4. Part 2. Political Practices
For a Socialist Architecture 4. Part 1. Political Principles
For a Socialist Architecture 3. Part 2: Economic Practices
For a Socialist Architecture 3. Part 1: Economic Principles
For a Socialist Architecture 2. Part 2. Environmental Practices
For a Socialist Architecture 2. Part 1. Environmental Principles
For a Socialist Architecture 1. Part 1: Social Principles
Leaving the Garden: Brexit and the Housing Crisis
For a Socialist Architecture. Part 1: The Facts in the Case of Patrik Schumacher
For a Socialist Architecture. Part 2: The Principles of Architectural Practice
The Space of Community in Post-war Council Estates
Housing is Not a Human Right: Housing Campaigns Before the Law
Policy Proposals on Estate Regeneration: ASH Presentation to the Tulse Hill branch of the Labour Party
Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration. ASH Presentation to the Department of Architecture, Braunschweig University of Technology
Housing Crisis or Capitalist Crisis? ASH Presentation at the Platypus Society European Conference 2018
Social Housing Scrutiny Project: ASH Presentation to Haringey Council Housing and Regeneration Scrutiny Panel
Battle of Ideas: Reform or Revolution in Housing?
Sustainable Estates: ASH Presentation at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Part 2)
11 Myths about London’s Housing Crisis: ASH Presentation at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Part 1)
2 or 3 Solutions to London’s Housing Crisis: ASH Presentation to the Architectural League of New York (Part 2)
15 Truths About London’s Housing Crisis: ASH Presentation to the Architectural League of New York (Part 1)
Future Estates: ASH presentation at the Royal Academy
Urgent Imagination: Conference at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
EXHIBITIONS AND FILMS
Bibliography for a Socialist Architecture: Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, Vancouver
The Right to the City: ASH Residency at the 221A Gallery, Vancouver
Sponsorship and Censorship: Why ASH is withdrawing from the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
Power Walk at the Serpentine Gallery: ASH Press Release
The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Film for Everyone
ASH Films: News Reports, Interviews, Presentations, Counter Propaganda, Documentaries, 2015-2018
Mapping London’s Estate Regeneration Programme
ASH Retrospective at the ICA
In formation: ASH Residency at the ICA
CO-OPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT
ASH Co-Housing: Design Option for the Brixton Housing Co-operative
ASH House: Design Options for the Drive Housing Co-operative
What is Community-led Housing? Proposal for a Co-operative Housing Development
CASE STUDIES IN ESTATE REGENERATION
The Future of St. Raphael’s Estate: Design Options by Karakusevic Carson Architects and their role in the consultation of residents by Brent Council
The Campaign for St. Raphael’s Estate: Fighting a Social and Environmental Disaster
The Fight for Montreal Square: Questions and Strategies for Housing Campaigners
The Regeneration of Ham Close Estate. Part 2: For a Socialist Architecture
The Regeneration of Ham Close Estate. Part 1: What the Green Party has learned from Labour
Public Subsidies for Private Profit: The Colville Estate Regeneration
The Carpenters Estate: A Fresh Start or Business as Usual at Newham Council?
Questions without Answers: Reginald House and Old Tidemill Garden
The Duties of an Architect: Regeneration and Gentrification in New Mildmay
Class War on Woodberry Down: A National Strategy
An Exemplary Regeneration: King’s Crescent Estate
Sheffield Tent City and the Social Cleansing of Park Hill Estate
The Intellectual Bloodstain: Academia and Social Cleansing on the Ferrier Estate
Reflections on the Outcome of the Public Inquiry into the Aylesbury Estate Compulsory Purchase Order
Regenerating Hackney’s Estates: The Dirty Tricks of a Dirty Council
From Ferrier Estate to Kidbrooke Village: Decoding a ‘Place in the Making’
What are the Options? Fred Wigg & John Walsh Towers
Guinness Trust: The Loughborough Estate Occupation
BIOPOLITICS
‘For as long as it takes’: NATO’s War on Russia
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Regulatory Apparatuses of Biopower
Woke, Racism and the Great Reset
What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose
Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part Two
Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part One
Defending Freedom for the Future
Coronation Day: The Functions of the Monarchy
Washington’s Puppet: The Rise and Fall of Volodmyr Zelenskyy
New World Order: The International Criminal Court and War on Russia
Contexts for Central Bank Digital Currency
The Western Oligarchy
The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism
Twenty Questions for Our Democracy
10. Humanity in Dark Times (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
9. The New Totalitarianism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
8. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the State (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
7. Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Left (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
6. From Kitsch to Woke: The Aesthetics of Totalitarianism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
5. The Psychological Structure of Fascism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
4. Fascism and the Decay of Capitalism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
3. The Fascist State and Human Rights (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
2. Eternal Fascism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
1. The Return of Fascism (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)
Laws for the Protection of People and State
The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the State
Happy New Year? Predictions for 2022
The Soothsayer (a parable in five prophecies)
The UK ‘Vaccination’ Programme. Part 3: Resistance
The UK ‘Vaccination’ Programme. Part 2: Virtue and Terror
The UK ‘Vaccination’ Programme. Part 1: Adverse Drug Reactions and Deaths
The Impact of Lockdown on UK Housing
In Our Defence: Freedom of Speech in the UK Biosecurity State
Behind the Mask, the Conspiracy!
Cui Bono? The COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy’
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis
Our Default State: Compulsory Vaccination for COVID-19 and Human Rights Law
Bowling for Pfizer: Who’s Behind the BioNTech Vaccine?
Five Stories Under Lockdown
Bread and Circuses: Who’s Behind the Oxford Vaccine for COVID-19?
The Betrayal of the Clerks: UK Intellectuals in the Service of the Biosecurity State
Bonfire of the Freedoms: The Unlawful Exercise of Powers conferred by the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
When the House Burns: Giorgio Agamben on the Coronavirus Crisis
The Infection of Science by Politics: A Nobel Laureate and Biophysicist on the Coronavirus Crisis
COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State
The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 2. Normalising Fear)
The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 1. Programmes and Regulations)
The Science and Law of Refusing to Wear Masks: Texts and Arguments in Support of Civil Disobedience
Lockdown: Collateral Damage in the War on COVID-19
The State of Emergency as Paradigm of Government: Coronavirus Legislation, Implementation and Enforcement
Manufacturing Consensus: The Registering of COVID-19 Deaths in the UK
Giorgio Agamben and the Biopolitics of COVID-19
Good Morning, Coronazombies! Diary of a Bio-Political Crisis Event
Coronavirus, Government Lockdown and its effects on UK Housing
Coronazombies! Infection and Denial in the United Kingdom
Language is a Virus: SARs-CoV-2 and the Science of Political Control
Sociology of a Disease: Age, Class and Mortality in the Coronavirus Pandemic
COVID-19 and Capitalism
COUNTER PROPAGANDA
Rioting, Legislation and Estate Demolition: A Chronology of Social Cleansing in London, 1999-2019
Capitalising on Crisis: Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal for Capitalism
The Smell of an Anarchist: The Aesthetics of Social Cleansing
The Business of Homelessness: My Container UK Ltd
Policy SD10: Social and Racial Cleansing in the Draft New London Plan
Homes for Londoners? Sadiq Khan’s Record on Housing
A Home for All? The Art Exhibition as Political Propaganda
Supply and Demand in Centre Point Residences
London’s Most Influential: Citigroup and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
The Architecture of Death
Calling All Architects: New Approaches to Old Housing
Southwark Sleeper: A New Housing Initiative for London’s Homeless (Or Not)
The Propaganda of Estate Regeneration: The Lincoln Estate, Poplar Harca and the British Broadcasting Corporation
Manufacturing Consent: GLA Capital Funding Guide: Section 8. Resident Ballots for Estate Regeneration Projects
The Tower: Rewriting Grenfell. ASH response to Andrew O’Hagan
London’s Empty Housing: Causes, Existing Policy, Future Solutions and their Enforcement
iMayor: The Ideology of GLA Housing Policy and the New Policy we need on Estate Regeneration
Scheming Schemes: A Street View of Gentrification
Maintain, Refurbish, Invest: Siemensstadt Housing Estate, Berlin
J’ACCUSE! Selected Letters to the Architects’ Journal, June 2015-July 2017
10 Myths about London’s Housing Crisis
Vauxhall Hustings 2017
Social Housing: Demolitions, Privatisations & Social Cleansing
Estate Demolition and the Business of Homelessness
FAQs
The Working Class Strikes Back
The Housing Question, 1872-2016
ASH meeting with the RIBA
Financial Compensation for Human Rights: The Aylesbury Estate
Time Out: London’s Best Buildings
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Inequality, Housing, Renting, Evictions, Homelessness and House Prices
Bleak House: Open letter from Architects for Social Housing to Lambeth Legal Services
Resistance Begins at Home: The Housing and Planning Act
The Doomsday Book: Mapping London’s Housing Crisis
Blitzkrieg! Sink Estates and Starter Homes
Let All The Children Boogie: David Bowie and the Housing and Planning Bill from Mars
Housing Bill Diary
Where Will We Live?
The End of Social Housing
The London Clearances
Parliament & Buckingham Estates: A Petition
PEDAGOGY
Zones of Interest: The Holocaust Industry in Film
Gaza Selfie: Representing the Chosen People
The End of History
This is the Colour of my Dreams: Human displacement and boundaries in our environment. Paintings by Vanessa Gould
Countless Cities: Photographs by Alessia Gammarota
The Sacred Heart of Architecture: Lessons from the Paris Commune
Whatever Happened to the Middle Class? Bad Faith and the Culture Industry
Le rebâtiment de Notre Dame
Whatever Happened to the Working Class? The British Ideology
Invisible Britain: The Art of Catharsis
What Is To Be Done? Changing Metaphors of Change
Dresden Diary: Architecture, History and Politics
Narkomfin: Regenerations, Appropriations, Betrayals
Armed Love: Capitalism, Anarchism and the Russian Revolution
Radiant City: The Marseilles Housing Unit
The Way of the Dead: Land, Class and Architecture
In Defence of Our Land: Historical Similarities Between the Enclosure of Common Land from the Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries and the Privatisation of Public Land in the Twenty-First; or, Why the Class War Never Changes, Only its Historical Form
Two or Three Things to Remember on this Day of Remembrance
The Peasants’ Revolt: Lessons from History
Avant-Garde Architecture: The Seagram Building
A New David: The Journey to Beauty in Architecture
Land Values: A Short History
Memorials of Forgetting: Art and Architecture in Berlin
In Defence of Our Homes: The Art of Resistance
MODERN TIMES: A Walk in Charlie Chaplin’s Footsteps
RESISTANCE BY DESIGN
ST. RAPHAEL’S ESTATE
ASH Press Release: St Raphael’s Estate Saved from Demolition
Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition
The Future of St. Raphael’s Estate: Design Options by Karakusevic Carson Architects and their role in the consultation of residents by Brent Council
Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to residents, St. Patrick’s Church
The Campaign for St. Raphael’s Estate: Fighting a Social and Environmental Disaster
St. Raphael’s Estate: ASH presentation to the Bartlett School of Architecture (housing design research workshop)
NORTHWOLD ESTATE
Saving Northwold Estate: The Design Alternatives to Demolition
The Consultation Game: TM Architects on Northwold Estate
The Guinness Partnership: Letter from a resident of Northwold Estate
The Future of Northwold Estate
CENTRAL HILL ESTATE
Central Hill: The Alternative to Demolition
The Castle: Freedom of Information and Commercial Confidentiality at Lambeth Co-operative Council
Embodied Carbon Estimation for Central Hill Estate: Report by Model Environments
Deliverability of the ASH proposal on Central Hill: ASH response to Lambeth Labour Council
Criteria for Estate Demolition: ASH response to Lambeth Labour Council
ASH Presentation to Central Hill Estate Residents Engagement Panel
Central Hill: Design Proposals
Facts and Figures on Central Hill Estate
Community Consultation: The future of Central Hill estate
Good News on Central Hill
In Defence of Central Hill
Central Hill Community
ASH Meeting on Central Hill
Workshops at Central Hill
Central Hill Estate Listing application
WEST KENSINGTON & GIBBS GREEN ESTATES
Saving West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates: An Open Letter to Labour Activists
ASH design proposals for West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates
Resistance by Design: West Kensington & Gibbs Green Estates
Home: Pin it Down!
KNIGHT’S WALK
Knight’s Walk: The Good Practice Guide to Gentrification
Knight’s Walk Redevelopment: Recommendation to Cabinet
Knights Walk Public Consultation: Alternative Proposals
Knight’s Walk: Resident Consultation
Knights Walk: Progress Report
Knights Walk: Background to Demoltion
Cressingham Gardens: Design Workshop
Cressingham Gardens: Pilot workshop on open spaces
Architectural Workshops on Cressingham Gardens Estate
Principles of Social Housing on Cressingham Gardens Estate
Cressingham Gardens: Background and ASH Progress
Cressingham Gardens Estate: Background to Demolition
CRESSINGHAM GARDENS
Cressingham Gardens: Design Workshop
Cressingham Gardens: Pilot workshop on open spaces
Architectural Workshops on Cressingham Gardens Estate
Principles of Social Housing on Cressingham Gardens Estate
Cressingham Gardens: Background and ASH Progress
Cressingham Gardens Estate: Background to Demolition
OPEN GARDEN ESTATES
Excalibur: Open Garden Estates 2017
Achilles Street: Open Garden Estates 2017
Macintosh Court: Open Garden Estates 2016
Open Garden Estates 2016
Open Garden Estates 2015
Cressingham Gardens, Open Garden Estates, 13-14 June 2015
Open Garden Estates Flyer
Open Garden Estates
PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS
What Does The General Election Mean?
After Labour
The Parliamentary Road to Capitalism
Tactical Voting: A Socialist Option
The Brexit Election: A Working-class Perspective
The Labour Party Manifesto on Housing 2019
ASH Housing Manifesto 2019
Running Man: The Johnson-Corbyn ‘Debate’
‘Middle-class Socialism’: A Warning from History
A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Emma Dent Coad
Another General Election . . .
Choose Labour?
A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Florence Eshalomi
Representing What? The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary
The Persecution, Incarceration, Torture and Extra-Territorial Extradition of Julian Assange: Template for a letter to your Member of Parliament
Brexit Countdown
Rebuilding Britain: Housing at the Labour Party Conference 2018
Oy Vey! No Latkes for Labour
Figs from Thistles: Labour’s Grenfell Opportunism
London’s Local Elections 2018: The Consequences of Voting
Our Urban Millions Must Wrest Control from Hostile, Inhumane Labour
The Social Realism of the Labour Party: Jeremy Corbyn and the Socialism of Fools
This Charming Man: Jeremy Corbyn and The Smiths
Dispossession: The Great Labour Party Swindle
New Old Labour: An Introduction for Housing Campaigners
The Labour Party Conference 2017: Housing Policy and Estate Regeneration
Why I Never Write About the Tories
Jeremy Corbyn and the Haringey Development Vehicle
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn! The People’s Assembly
Clusterfuck! Labour’s Shameless Council Estate Rip-off
Secure Homes for All? The Labour Party Manifesto on Housing
Vote Labour? The Aims and Values of Estate Demolition
A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Helen Hayes
Electoral Defeatism
Stand Up To Labour: The Denials of Momentum
Brexit Diary
No Platform For Labour Lies
Protests
Stirling Prize Protest 2019: The Social Cleansing of Social Housing
Extinction Rebellion: Socialist Revolution
Entente Cordiale: An anal probe into London’s housing crisis
Campaign for Beti: Equality Duties of the Guinness Partnership and the Human Rights of their Tenants
Squat Belgravia: The Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians
The Anarchist Present: Eaton Square
Harrods and the Social Cleansing of London
Resist Guinness Evictions: Campaign for Beti
Stirling Prize Protest 2016: From the Heygate to the Aylesbury
ASH Lounge at MIPIM UK
Savills Protest
Stirling Prize Protest 2015
AJ 120 Awards: Protest
What’s the Point? Protest and the Housing Crisis
Photo Essays
Gaza Funeral
Homelessness is a Political Environment: Vancouver Tent City
100 Block of East Hastings Street Rally, Vancouver
Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures
Memorial for Grenfell
Labour Blimps
Kidbrooke Village: Our Vision for Your Future
The Working Class Strikes Back
Trafalgar Place: The Production of Space
Marzahn: The Place Myths of Social Housing
O. J. Simpson Prize 2016
O. J. Simpson Prize 2015
Poems
Settling In
On Kowloon Ferry
Khan Younis, February 2024
Extremism
An Open Letter to Nobody: The Duties of Poetry Now
Fight and Flight: Poems, 2012-2023
Notes to Poetry
South Winds
London Loves
The Burial of the Dead
The Cantref of Pebidiog
Freedom Day
Parking in Fletching
The Battle of Hyde Park
The Nuremberg Defence
Open for Business
Bring the Summer Home (The Poll Tax Song)
Sympathy for the Tory
The Christ of Journalism
ASH Christmas Carol
The Red Lady of Paviland
Labour Party Conference No. 2
Dear Labour Council
Explaining a Few Things
Red Front / Pink Boots
The Seven Stages of Regeneration
Definitely London Town
Greece (an Odyssey)
Holy Island
Sweets Way
The Unlawful Killing of Ian Tomlinson
The Aylesbury Wall
When We Marched For Homes
Thatcherwocky
New Left Revue (Being for the Benefit of Mr. Assange)
The Nation’s Favourite Poem
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