Sophia Psarra
@sophiapsarra.bsky.social
I don't deal with answers or solve problems, but with how to formulate them correctly. Integrating architecture, cities, theory, data, practice. Professor. Co-Director of MPhil/PhD History+Theory @BartlettArchUCL
The final post in my blog trilogy on social housing. Blog 1 explored social housing in a part of London. Blog 2 saw housing as cultural and political project. Blog 3 asks: How do we address housing shortages in the 21st century? What is the role of the architect? con-figurations.com/2025/10/27/t...
The Architect and the Housing Crisis
95 Peckham Road, London, Peter Barber Architects, 2019 This is the final post in my trilogy of blogs on social housing. Blog 1 explored a concentration of diverse social housing developments within…
con-figurations.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The final post in my blog trilogy on social housing. Blog 1 explored social housing in a part of London. Blog 2 saw housing as cultural and political project. Blog 3 asks: How do we address housing shortages in the 21st century? What is the role of the architect? con-figurations.com/2025/10/27/t...
This is the second in a series of three blogs drawing on the English experience of producing public housing at scale in a way that recent British governments have been unwilling to do. I review some examples, influences and critiques. con-figurations.com/2025/10/10/f...
From Lutyens’ Page Street housing to Darnbourne and Darke’s Lillington Gardens and beyond: English social housing in its architectural context
In the field of collective housing Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation at Marseilles had something of the function of a prototype, writes William Curtis in his 1981 Modern Architecture since 2000. I …
con-figurations.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is the second in a series of three blogs drawing on the English experience of producing public housing at scale in a way that recent British governments have been unwilling to do. I review some examples, influences and critiques. con-figurations.com/2025/10/10/f...
NEW BLOG: Edwin Lutyens Public Housing on Page Street, Pimlico. As England embarks yet again on a major housing building programme under the New Towns Task Force, I reflect on earlier architectural attempts to address previous acute housing shortages. configurationscom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
October 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
NEW BLOG: Edwin Lutyens Public Housing on Page Street, Pimlico. As England embarks yet again on a major housing building programme under the New Towns Task Force, I reflect on earlier architectural attempts to address previous acute housing shortages. configurationscom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
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"So extreme is this embarrassment within the political class that it has eclipsed even the personal fears of disability and death among legislators who control the dollars."
The Rise and Unraveling of America’s Science Pact
The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"So extreme is this embarrassment within the political class that it has eclipsed even the personal fears of disability and death among legislators who control the dollars."
Excited to meet students for the first time today for the Architectural Phenomena module! @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Excited to meet students for the first time today for the Architectural Phenomena module! @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
Dear friends, some good news — I’ve been shortlisted for The Greek International Women Awards (GIWA)! ✨ The winner is chosen by public vote + a committe of experts, so I’d love your support. Just click the link to vote 👉 www.eventora.com/en/Events/gi.... Thanks, your support means everything! 💜🙌
GIWA 2025
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September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Dear friends, some good news — I’ve been shortlisted for The Greek International Women Awards (GIWA)! ✨ The winner is chosen by public vote + a committe of experts, so I’d love your support. Just click the link to vote 👉 www.eventora.com/en/Events/gi.... Thanks, your support means everything! 💜🙌
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Although currently being on his annual leave with me, visiting rugged mountains and coasts in Greece, Tony Mulhall from #RICS should celebrate that he has been elected, alongside 62 leading social scientists, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
The Academy of Social Sciences welcomes 63 leading social scientists to its Fellowship this autumn – Academy of Social Sciences
acss.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Although currently being on his annual leave with me, visiting rugged mountains and coasts in Greece, Tony Mulhall from #RICS should celebrate that he has been elected, alongside 62 leading social scientists, a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
The first decade…thanks to our families and friends that made our wedding special. We lost a few dear ones since, and life becomes more complicated the older we get. But I at least am always made to laugh!
September 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The first decade…thanks to our families and friends that made our wedding special. We lost a few dear ones since, and life becomes more complicated the older we get. But I at least am always made to laugh!
Trump Signs Executive Order to Make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’
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August 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Trump Signs Executive Order to Make ‘Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
Seriousness and humour, modernity and post-modernity in Pimlico
August 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Seriousness and humour, modernity and post-modernity in Pimlico
Writing season begins.
August 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Writing season begins.
Royal Academy Summer Show
July 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Royal Academy Summer Show
Nothing nicer than a lovely meal with collegiate friendly colleagues from our PhD programmes.
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nothing nicer than a lovely meal with collegiate friendly colleagues from our PhD programmes.
I will be keynote speaker at the Interior Educators’ Conference 2025, with the exciting title ‘Imagining Interiors’. At the Edinburgh College of Art’s Interior Design department, University of Edinburgh, 13-14 November 2025. imagining-interiors.eca.ed.ac.uk
Imagining Interiors – 2025 Interior Educators Conference
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July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I will be keynote speaker at the Interior Educators’ Conference 2025, with the exciting title ‘Imagining Interiors’. At the Edinburgh College of Art’s Interior Design department, University of Edinburgh, 13-14 November 2025. imagining-interiors.eca.ed.ac.uk
ChatGPT and our brains.
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
ChatGPT and our brains.
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Britain once had social housing. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight
Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Britain once had social housing. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The wonderful @annaminton.bsky.social and gentrification in London. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools | Anna Minton
Thanks to ‘placemaking’, thriving communities are hollowing out, to be replaced by luxury apartments and expensive restaurants, says author Anna Minton
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May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The wonderful @annaminton.bsky.social and gentrification in London. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I managed to sneak into the new library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, by Niall McLaughlin Architects without being rumbled.
May 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I managed to sneak into the new library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, by Niall McLaughlin Architects without being rumbled.
Celebrations and exhibit of astonishing field trip in Asmara by MAHUE course @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Celebrations and exhibit of astonishing field trip in Asmara by MAHUE course @thebartlettucl.bsky.social
Glorious day, picnic @primrosehillbooks.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Glorious day, picnic @primrosehillbooks.bsky.social