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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

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

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

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 … More

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

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

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