Welcome

This is the unofficial blog for the Critical Readings we make as the first component of your H&T module on the first year of your PGDip in Architecture at LSBU. If you are enrolled on this course please join this site as a follower and use it for advice weekly as you set up your own blog (with blogspot.com) and make posts on each of the texts set. It is also imperative that you get in to the habit of making your own posts on your own blog week by week, since this is a process orientated submission made over time. I will be reading your blogs as we go along.

You will find you get over any shyness quite quickly. The blogosphere is huge, and it is unlikely you will pick up much traffic from elsewhere, even if you do, who cares? Blogging will help you get in to the habit of writing without the stress of trying to construct an academic essay, yet usefully constructing smaller, more discrete arguments all the same. The task is as much craft as anything. At the end of the course, you simply write a concluding blog and print it all out and submit it.

PLEASE NOTE: It is important not to be pretentious, to throw out any jargon and write straightforwardly. That is your primary task to begin with, that and reading carefully. It is not easy to write well if you do not read well. All the texts have been selected as good pieces of writing as well as pertaining to the search for truth that is theoretical investigation.