Building Without Bureaucracy in l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui
July 2010. Building Without Bureaucracy, an experiment in unregulated urbanism by Finn Williams, David Knight and Ulf Hackauf has been published in the relaunched magazine l'Architectre d'Aujord'hui. Guest edited by Winy Maas, MVRDV and the Why Factory. Other contributors include Beatriz Colomina, John Thackara, Rory McGowan, Theo Deutinger and Saskia Sassen.
Talk for Brown Hart Gardens
July 2010. Finn Williams talks to residents of the Grosvenor Estate about Arnold Circus as a model for the renewal of Brown Hart Gardens. Organised by Lucy Musgrave and Stephen Escritt of Publica, for Grosvenor.
A Retroactive Manifesto for Croydon-ness
July 2010. Finn Williams chairs a discussion on Croydon-ness, with contributions from Vincent Lacovara of Croydon Council and the AOC, David West of Studio Egret West, Richard Lavington of Maccreanor Lavington, David Patterson of Make, Zineb Segrouchni & Fiona Kydd of OKRA, and Julian Lewis of East. With thanks to Croydon Economic Development Company.
Talk at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
June 2010. Finn Williams talks at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej with office for subversive architecture and dallaspierce+quintero as part of the Architecture Foundation's exchange programme with Poland.
.ORG Workshop at the RCA Final Show
June 2010. Finn Williams and Roberto Bottazzi (ADS1) run a workshop with Department 21 to propose alternative budget cuts for the Royal College of Art, as part of their installation in the inner courtyard of the RCA Final Show.
Living in Rainham, at Mendrisio
May 2010. Finn Williams is a final critic for Julian Lewis's studio at l’Accademia dell’architettura, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio, together with Signy Svalastoga, Peter Carl, Dann Jessen and Judith Lösing.
Narrative Environments at Shunt
May 2010. Finn Williams talks at the event ‘Props and Sets – the making of Narratives’ with Noam Toran, Tom Coward and Graham Hudson at Shunt, as part of the Central Saint Martins Narrative Environments course. Organised by Inigo Minns, Shibboleth Shechter and Benjamin Reichen.
Common Office selected for the New Architects: Poland_UK programme
April 2010. Common Office represents the UK along with office for subversive architecture and dallaspierce+quintero for the Architecture Foundation's exchange programme with Poland. Finn Williams talks at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on Monday 28 June at 6pm, and at the Royal College of Art in conversation with Aleksandra Wasilkowska on Tuesday 4 May, 7pm.
The Poundshop opens on Hoxton Street
April 2010. The pop-up Poundshop, founded by Household and Sara Melin, sells design products for one pound with an equally affordable interior made by Common Office and Fredrik Paulsen. At 253 Hoxton Street from April 2-5 (12-6pm).
Workshop with Department 21
March 2010. Finn Williams and Roberto Bottazzi (ADS1) hold a workshop with the legendary Department 21 to plan their presence in the Royal College of Art Final Show.
Lecture at the Bartlett
March 2010. Finn Williams talks to the Bartlett Urban Design MArch course about a Wider Agency for Urban Design.
Croydon's Urban Design Team in the Observer
February 2010. Finn Williams described as looking like a 'consumptive poet' in Rowan Moore's piece on Croydon in the Observer. "Croydon gave the world Kate Moss, but can it ever be sexy? An exciting team of young planners are set to revive the south London suburb and blaze a trail for all British towns".
Beaconsfield Services: A Users' Manual
February 2010. Finn Williams runs a workshop for Sam Jacob and Tomas Klassnik's unit Inter 12: Pop Vernacular at the Architectural Association.
25 who will change architecture and design in 2010
December 2009. Blueprint names Finn Williams as one of 25 "inspiring people who will be changing things in 2010... From architecture to textiles, town planning to graphic design, the people featured are taking matters into their own hands and refusing to conform to the culture of low horizons."
Croydon: the future of British town planning
December 2009. Croydon's Urban Design team is featured in the Architects' Journal. Rory Olcayto writes "working for the council hasn’t been this exciting since at least the 1970s."
This Is Not A Gateway Festival
October 2009. Finn Williams discusses 'Productive Dystopias, Or... An Architecture Of Unintended Consequences' with a panel hosted by Tomorrow's Thoughts Today and including Tomas Klassnik, Elena Pascolo, Austin Williams and Karl Sharro. Friday 23 October, Hanbury Hall, 20:00-21:30.
Kitchen Table Talks
September 2009. Finn Williams talks about ground up change in the planning of public space as part of Kitchen Table Talks, a series of events at Leila's Shop during the London Design Festival to launch Ilse Crawford's Seating for Eating.
SUB-PLAN at the AA
July 2009. Finn Williams, David Knight, Europa, and Ulf Hackauf run SUB-PLAN, a unit at the Architectural Association Summer School. The collaborative result is a householders' guide to exploiting the legislative loopholes of Permitted Development, publically available here.
Hunch No.12 Bureaucracy
April 2009. The Rule of Regulations is featured in the latest volume of Hunch, No. 12 Bureaucracy, alongside Keller Easterling and Ilka and Andreas Ruby.
Place Faking shows in Brooklyn
20 March 2009. Place Faking, a mockumentary by Finn Williams, is shown as part of ShapeShifting: Reinventing Heritage, a project curated by Alice Shay and Alexis Smagula at the Division of Human Works, Brooklyn, NY.
Design by Despotism at Senate House
9 February 2009. Finn Williams talks about Design by Despotism, or the terrible brilliance of autocrats' amateurish attempts at architecture. With artists Amy Feneck and Pil & Galia, at Miss B's Salon in Senate House. By invitation only.
Advisory Role at Tower Hamlets
February 2009. Finn Williams represents the Twentieth Century Society at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Conservation and Design Advisory Group (CADAG)
Urban Design for Croydon
January 2009. Finn Williams becomes an Urban Designer at Croydon Council
Creative Accounting at the RCA
November 2008. Finn Williams runs workshop in 'Creative Accounting', or alternative economies of urban regeneration, with architecture diploma students at the Royal College of Art
The Rule of Regulations at the Berlage
November 2008. The Rule of Regulations opens at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.