From Gardens Where we Feel (In)secure

So, I gave a paper yesterday evening to the denizens of the Hertfordshire Architectural Association: it was really much more enjoyable lecturing to lots of old folk - they seem so much less worried about looking hep than the 20somethings I've usually given papers to: the questions were very sharp, there were no non-sequiteurious interventions asking me to 'reinscribe' or 'traverse' anything: and best of all, I got to read it in a castle, in a market town with a delightful Modernist town hall and the more expected rustic pleasures. Beats Goldsmiths College, anyhow. The paper in all its lengthiness and pretty pictures is now up at The Measures Taken.