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Newsletter #26 Mary Duggan tells Tim Abrahams about the surprising new direction she’s chosen to take her beautifully crafted approach to architecture in.

In her inimitable, quiet way Mary Duggan is one of the most influential architects in the UK. She understands the cut and thrust of the property world, thanks to her experience with Duggan Morris which was wound up in 2017, but her interest in material and its relationship to place has helped shape the preoccupations of our, shall we say, more avant-garde architectural culture.

Mary had plenty to say about architecture and its relationship to contemporary culture and finance but Tim encouraged her to explain her more recent steps, where she has thrown over what she is known for and taken up the pursuit of an even more ambitious idea of what architecture should be. Listen where you usually listen. Like, share and subscribe.

In addition: the only architecture articles you need to read this week:

Oosterwold in Almeira offers an amazing template for how architects and users can work closely together - Country Life

Pritzker Prize honors Chilean Smiljan Radic, architect of interiority - Le Monde

Knives are already out for the Obama presidential library - Architect’s Newspaper

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