Notting Hill Editions

big idea was that ‘architecture’, although all too often conceived by theorists, is actually about daily life, where people really live and how they live. Nairn himself kept his distance from architects, although his work was increasingly influential on them. Instead he travelled, drank and wrote books like this, which were meant to be ‘not an invitation to argument but to discovery’.

I knew that pain was not a muse,

ve, which I was supposed to be practicing and was not. I had no model; I knew no female bodies like my own.