As the world was coming out of Covid and my part time PhD was commencing, I was part of the…

At the end of autumn 2021 I visited the Re-use hub to visit the informal conference LARAC 2021. The re-use…

To me, model-making is a phenomenological process of discovering of how different material work and what they want to become.…

In November 2021 I went to visit Longley Lane MRF, the site for sorting Greater Manchester’s recyclable waste. Langley Lane,…

In October 2021 I commenced on a PhD at the University of Manchester. The topic of the PhD is on…

Last Saturday I attended one of a series of conferences on activism held at the CIVA architectural institution in Brussels.…

On Tuesday the 1st June I was invited to chair an event forming part of the INFRA+ series, organised by…

Yesterday I took part in the reviews of the final year briefs for the master students at the London School…

Making metal has been one of the central activities of humankind for thousands of years. What started off as small…

Untouched by railways and industry, secluded and picturesque Tarusa has inspired many generations of poets and artists. During all seasons,…

Living in the Arctic Tundra Around 70km to the north from Murmansk any trees disappear and one is faced with…

Over the past week I visited Teriberka and Murmansk, positioned near to the Arctic Ocean over 300 km north of…

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…