In the last three years, I have written 150 articles for Architecture and Design as ‘Tone on Tuesday’, covering all aspects of design, in popularising difficult ideas, and particularly in the relationship between design and politics, social housing and sustainability.
In this last week of A&D for 2022, I am pleased to publish an index, with links, to all those articles as encouragement for some provocative reading over the coming holidays. Tone on Tuesday will return next year, bi-weekly and in a new guise, concentrating on contemporary of events.
General design issues
Naming things
On Wright and Wrong
On outdoor rooms
On design for Aged Care
How Buildings Learn
The Tokyo Olympics and Tales from Two Temples
Going for Bronze
Designing Defence Materiel
Design failure USA: the automobile
The AIA changes its awards - better but not good enough
Big Plans: the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Big Plans: The Snowy Mountains Scheme and the NBN
On nouns and verbs
Design and politics
On architects sidelined
On designing the disunited states
Design Matters USA
Design Matters USA 2
The democratic spatial narrative of the Australian War Memorial
The State of Play in Architecture and Politics in 2021
Ten Femmes and their Policies
Design and the Federal Election
Innovation, Manufacturing and Politics
Architecture of Inequality
How design can help political journalism
Designing Nuclear Power
Why so little design on the ABC?
A different approach to culture
King Charles III - architectural advocate
King Charles III - property developer
The Federal Budget 2022: forget design, cities and housing
The fall and rise of Dan Andrews, and Murdoch newspapers design fail
On the Piece Corps
Anzac Daze and Anzac Daze Reprise
Elizabeth Farrelly's Political Ambitions
The Minister for the Environment
On Sustainability
On Sustainability
On Affordability
On Autonomy and Sustainability
On the third wave of sustainability
On six sustainable steps
On ventilation
On passive solar heating
On thermal comfort in homes
NatHERS and thermal standards
NatHERS - part 2
Aussie Five-O: Outsulation + Openings + Orientation + Optimass + Operation
On solar water heating
On the air con job
Tri-Arc troubles: ventilation
Sustainable Suburbia
Technologies not Tax
The Four Stages of Sustainability
Richard Rogers vs Stewart Brand
The Tipping Point of Sustainability
The new Planet of the Apes - designing sustainability
On Electric Bicycles
On Climate Change Politics
On Climate protests as a waste of time
On Architects Declaring
On Green and Crimson
Lowering Warragamba Dam is the sustainable solution
How a real war will confound the climate wars
How to address the impacts of climate change
On housing generally
Housing Policies
Home Ownership for all
We need Homes not Housing
Scomo, Albo and Housing Policies
Federal Housing Policies
Homes: One Policy to Rule Them All
Australia's Project Home Part 1
AV Jennings and Project Homes
Our Love Affair with Brick and Tile
The Project Home Today
Tomorrow's Project Homes: The Hybrid Home
Reincarnated McMansions
Suburban Housing - a History in 7 Images
Ed Gurney - Australia's most prolific architect
On Social Housing
Social housing 1: a history
Social housing 2: the economics
Social housing 3: Typologies
State Social Housing Policies
On social housing as the new 'pink batts'
Successful social housing at last
The failure of housing in the Federal Budget
If public housing is the question, community housing is the answer
Homeless wash up
On Architectural Education
On architecture schools 1: the problems
On architecture schools 2: what is architecture
On architecture schools 3: design studio curriculum
On architecture schools 4: design process
On crits in architecture schools
On Harvard GSD and the ‘decorated diagram’
Stem in Stead
Opus Musivum
Opus Musivum 2
On Architecture Books
Architecture books to read
On reading architecture
Homes in the sun
John Gloag, the best architectural writer you never heard of
The most important book published in Australia this year
Davina Jackson's Australian Architecture
On Practice
On Grand Designs
On the section
On ‘droit de suite’
On clients and the single house feaso
Single house contracts
On being objectionable
Architect's Moral Rights
On Construction
On the banks’ role in apartment faults
On the declining quality of our buildings
On the failure of the proposed building practitioners bill
On prefab construction
On Project Managers
On Crafts, Trades and Subbies
The Commissioner has left the building
Carrots, sticks and bigger sticks
On Cities and Urban Planning
Nimes
Kabul Architecture
Adaptation and Regional Regeneration
Regional Regeneration
On Buildings
Sydney Football Stadium
World Trade Centre Then
World Trade Centre Now
On architecture in the USA: Clark County Centre
On Bushfires
On Bushfires
On Bushfire Outcomes
On Fire Country
On the covid pandemic
On Covid Part 1
On Covid Part 2
The future of cities post Covid
HVAC + Hotel Quarantine Failures
Quarantine Facilities
How COVID will change architecture
On Industrial Design and Graphics
On Repairing Eames Chairs
Big Apple Taxis
Good Goods
Charlie Watts, Graphic Designer
Charlie Watts, Graphic Designer Too
Charlie Watts -Stage Design
Olympic Objects
History in 100 Objects
Obituaries
On Christo
Marr Grounds
Marr Grounds Reprise
Designing with de Bono
On Klopper's Fremantle
Vale Dirk Bolt
Steve King, Architectural Scientist
Jack Greenland
The Four Lives of Derek Wrigley
In Memory of Phil Abram, Architect and Coalescer of Small Practices
Tone Wheeler is an architect / the views expressed are his / contact at [email protected]. He is also the proud recipient of the 2014 AIA NSW Milo Dunphy Award.
