“When I go to the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, Martin sits contentedly in the corner, looking at books, looking at photos, calling out questions, getting up to reach another book, then offering to make everyone tea.” From the introduction of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive by Wendy Jones.

A space with so many possibilities is for sale in Bradford on Avon: thespaces.com/who-will-tur...

If you’d like to show your support for saving the Church of the Good Shepherd as a community space, please sign this petition. Thank you. c.org/qCdhWyxBHG

Church of the Good Shepherd, Batheaston. Permission has mistakenly been granted to demolish this rare example of brutalist architecture in Bath. I was invited inside with a group of people who are exploring an alternative future for this empty church.

Wes Anderson Archives at the Design Museum. Do go. It’s very good. If you like him that is. If you don’t, you probably won’t.

Oh good, the albums of the year have started. Time to discover some good music I've missed.

Happy 40th birthday to The Point in Milton Keynes. Britain's first American style multiplex cinema and under threat from the wrecking ball... www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/th...

It's a good one. The first of 24 essays from 'I thought about that a lot' chimes with my sentiments about where to spend time at Christmas: www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/christm...

A little bit of variety is good for us all, which is why protecting one brutalist building amongst the Georgian splendour of Bath is a good idea.

A trip to Dulwich beckons. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

“When I die, please say just that: that I died.” observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Post-modernism on a Suffolk beach. www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/al...

Bowie’s answers are golden.

A bit of post-modernism to lighten up your day. Kathryn Stevens Rare Books Library, Newnham College, Oxford. Completed in 1983. Grade II listed in 2018.

Another interesting round up of West Country modernism including unwelcome news on Bath Fire Station.

I think a return trip to Tirana beckons... www.dezeen.com/2025/10/29/e...

Patti Smith can write… “I felt a gravitational force; my being truly shaken, kindling my desire for the One, the better savage. Fate had touched us; I knew at that moment he was the one I would marry.” observer.co.uk/style/featur...

My favourite portrait photographer, Jane Bown, has an exhibition in Sussex. I love how she used to carry her one camera in a wicker basket, used natural light (with occasional help from an anglepoise lamp) and had an instinctive ability to get the photo she wanted. observer.co.uk/culture/phot...

Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings: mailchi.mp/61aa797623d7...

It’s arrived… more brilliant, thoughtful, atmospheric, mizzly photos by @marcwilson.co.uk (I hope he had good waterproofs). www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...

In this month's Jotter: My first PechaKucha Night, how Bic has kept the ball rolling, visiting art galleries is good for you, Stories From The City... is still really good, Justin’s fetching t-shirts, Xavi writes perceptively about AI, 7-word autobiographies: www.brighterside.co.uk/news/monthly...

Early evening autumn sun shining on the Holburne Museum in Bath.

These zines were the prompt for our recent BRUTAL Bristol exhibition. Buy them while you can! More people visited than we hoped and our 4 walks sold out demonstrating how many people are interested in the city’s post-war architecture.

In case you missed it, here is a link to the great @municipaldreams.bsky.social blog and review of my new book: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/b... "Clayton’s book is not only a powerful evocation of past ideals and practice but a call to action."

I’m talking about the beauty of Bristol’s brutalist buildings at the next PechaKucha evening at Strange Brew on 19th November. Tickets and more information here: pechakucha.co.uk

A walk around Bristol with @eberlin.co.uk and the Bristol Modernist

Interesting article about the background to the @themodernist.bsky.social ahead of their book fair @vitsoe.bsky.social next weekend. Our new Bristol 'branch' sneaks in a mention too www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/mod...

BRUTAL Bristol is in the Bristol Post and our exhibition is on today and tomorrow at Sparks, Broadmead. It’s been a busy day - do come along and make it busier.

The Thursday 11.30 tour is almost sold out. Three places left.

Recommend.

We’ve added another tour of Broadmead Baptist Church. The last one sold out rapidly so be quick if you’d like to see inside this recently listed church above the shops. the-modernist.org/products/bru...

My pals @tom8enjamin.bsky.social and @eberlin.co.uk are putting on an exhibition about brutalist buildings in Bristol next week. I wrote a couple of things to help promote it, including this piece about brutalist car parks. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Photos from @eberlin.co.uk from BRUTAL Bristol II have made their way over to @bristol247.bsky.social with a nice write up from @raynewman.bsky.social 👇 www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Great article about Bristol car parks by @raynewman.bsky.social on @bristol247.bsky.social with a few photos by yours truly. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

In this month’s Jotter: 1. BRUTAL Bristol 2. The art of Käthe Kollwitz 3. Grim ‘chainification’ 4. The bewildering phenomena of declining quality 5. Dieter Rams on junk 6. The Designs of Arne Jacobsen 7. 1958: the year of the T3, The Egg & The Orchard 8. Work www.brighterside.co.uk/news/monthly...

5* review for a must-see exhibition at Tate Britain. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

In Brutal London @grindrod.bsky.social wrote of Space House: “… an exciting shape filled with space-age verve, a building that looks as if it might be equally at home circling the globe in orbit.” Here are a few photos from a visit with @c20society.bsky.social www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/sp...

It’s always a great read and inspired me on my recent trip to Truro.

Alban Gate, or 125 London Wall, in the City of London. The “shoulder padded office block” designed by Sir Terry Farrell whose death was announced today.

I was going to alert you to another event for our BRUTAL Bristol exhibition… but it’s already sold out. We will try and get another tour for the afternoon… the-modernist.org/products/bru...

“…. it looks like the world's biggest broken flight departures board, or the Evil Headquarters of an Evil Corporation where Evil People think up Evil Ideas.” (Will Noble) Which is why I like Bastion House and The Museum of London so much… open.substack.com/pub/eberlin/...

Continuing on the Rupert St car park theme. Here’s a wonderful 1961 Pathé News video celebrating its arrival. youtu.be/Viw41IcXrQ0

The revolutionary new MULTIDECK… Thanks to the Bristol Post for this scan of an ad for the opening of Bristol’s iconic Rupert St car park. Due to be demolished for a couple more unimaginative boxes of student accommodation. More photos here: www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/ru...

Well that was quick… my Brutal Bristol photo walk has already sold out, as has Elliot’s tour on Saturday. It seems like people can’t get enough of brutalism in Bristol. Another event will be announced soon… the-modernist.org/products/bri...

I love it when a car park proudly declares what it is in concrete. St Clement Street Car Park, Truro, Cornwall.

“I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.” Dieter Rams, who has just been awarded the World Design Medal. www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo

As part of our BRUTAL Bristol exhibition, you can join @eberlin.co.uk on a walk around Bristol photographing some of its best buildings. Sign up here: the-modernist.org/products/bri...

Thank you @bristol247.bsky.social for covering our upcoming BRUTAL Bristol exhibition at Sparks (the old M&S in Broadmead) on 8-12 October. And thank you @raynewman.bsky.social for your wordsmithery. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Lordy if I were within a hundred miles of this you better believe I'd be taking part. BUT MAYBE YOU CAN!

As part of our BRUTAL Bristol exhibition, you are invited to come on a stroll around some brutiful Bristol buildings on 12th October. You can reserve your place here: the-modernist.org/products/bri...