In late 2021 Emilia’s team celebrated the opening of the 3rd restaurant. At over 200 sq metres, this was the…

In the final weeks of 2020, I spent a week in the typical former Soviet industrial city of Shakhty in…

My essay Another Hotel in Africa , originally written for the University of Cambridge, will be published in the Volume…

Solovki is one of the most remote and infrastructurally divorced tourist destinations of the Russian North. An archipoelago initially inhabited…

The site is located to the south east from Weston-super-Mare’s historic centre, alongside the A370 and the Weston bypass railway.…

In his book Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett1 points us towards the two opposite forms of urban evolution: rigidly pre-defined…

Designing ‘waste space’ needs to change as does the way we think of all waste and recycling as awhole. Often…

Below I review some professional functions that link the fields of waste management,  architecture and urban planning, based on my…

It happens that entire towns change their principal function over the centuries. An example of such transformation is Carcassonne in…

My work was recently referenced in the Architectiral Journal article about university ratings.

I continue visiting the 7 Sisters Market, a home to one of London’s two main Latin American communities for over…

During my time at TP Bennett I worked on Arndale both during my Part 1 (2015-16) and Part 2 (2018-19)…

Yesterday I received a Commendation for my Dissertation ‘Another Hotel in Africa’. Copy of Mark Shtanov Thesis Interview:

My two lectures, one on Community lead hotel project in Africa (3 October) and one on integrating waste-processing infrastructure into…

Whilst visiting SEK University in Quito, Ecuador, in 2018, I ran a model-making workshop with a group of 17 UISEK…

Al Borde architects, known outside Latin America after Venice Biennale 2016, are based just north of the historic city of…

After conducing visit 1 and visit 2 to San Roque market, my students condensed their findings in an ethnographic exhibition.…

Shtanov workshop discription (workshop brief in pdf) Market approach from Loja Street.

Shtanov workshop discription (workshop brief in pdf) With a group of students we started on the workshop aimed at studying processes…

Boulevard 24 Mayo, 5:57 in the morning. Quito’s former most notorious drug and prostitution street, now pedestrianised, decorated with pink…

For the coming month I am working in an office based on a 17 century monastery of Guapulo, built by…

during last Monday’s visit to San Roque market I met the world champion of Trompo – an important game in…

In order to travel between the accomodation and the architecture school I make 2 interchanges between buses, and the connecting…

During my one day stopover between London and Quito I used the city of Mexico Metro to visit the historic…

My project questions the present methods of developing plots of land excised by West African governments to the indigenous villages. The key objective is to test alternative methods of planning by proposing an architectural prototype for a village-led hotel, where a local indigenous community remains the long-term owner and benefactor of the intervention.

Hong Kong is a crossroads of opposing cultural flows, and its identity search is likely to continue for quite some…

Whilst In China’s economic capital, I came across two sites of settlement relocation, one in兰言里, Jiaxing road district and one…

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Houhai, [ 后海 ] Central Beijing, cold December evening. A half empty bar with most visitors staring at social media…