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Talk on clinker at Veretec 2022
Talks at Veretec
2022-23

Postcard, Brasilia, date unknown c. 1960s
BBC: The Inquiry
BBC World Service 2019

Itapoã, DF Brazil photograph © Joana França 2011
Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia
Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2016

Brasilia, DF Brazil photograph © Joana França 2011
Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia
Architectural Design [April 2016]

McAslan Gallery: Emerging Architects
Two exhibitions for the McAslan Gallery
McAslan Gallery 2016

Edzell Castle, Angus
Edzell Castle: Architectural Treatises in Late 16th Century Scotland
Garden History Society 2014

Palladio
Architecture and the Humanities
Architectural Research Quarterly 2014

Rio: Canal do Mangue Postcard
Urban Planning in Rio 1870-1930: the Construction of Modernity
Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2014

London Tower Block
Review of Remaking London: Design and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Architectural Research Quarterly 2013

Oscar Niemeyer: House in Canoas, Rio de Janeiro
Life's a Beach: Oscar Niemeyer, Landscape and Women
The Rest is Noise Festival
South Bank, London 6 October 2013

Brasilia Tres Poderes
BBC: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 7 & 9 December 2012

Brasilia Tres Poderes
Brasilia: Fictions and Illusions
Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2012

Nolli Plan of Rome
Connected Communities Symposium
University of Dundee 2011

Arup: White Building, St John's College Oxford
Architecture + ESI: an architect's perspective
FESI [The UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity] 2011

Booth Poverty Map of London
Review of Mapping London
Architectural Research Quarterly 2010

RIAS: landworkers exhibition
Landworkers
Dundee Contemporary Arts
14-28 May 2009

Antonio Carlos Elias: Epulis Fissuratum
The Studio of Antonio Carlos Elias
Epulis Fissuratum [Brasília 2006]

Thomas Deckker: superquadra penthouse project
Superquadra Penthouse Project
Penthouse Living
[Wiley 2005]

Arquivo Brasilia
Arquivo Brasília
Sala Martins Penna
Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro
Brasília
19-20 April 2005

Revisiting Brazil: View of Exhibition
Revisiting Brazil
RIBA Gallery 2
9-30 October 2003

Houston Car Park
Urban Entropies: A Tale of Three Cities
Architectural Design [September 2003]

Guedes Apartment, São Paulo
New Architecture in Brazil - Photographs by Michael Frantzis
Brazilian Embassy, London
5-6 March 2003

Joaquim Gudes: Kerti House, São Paulo
Natural Spirit (Places to Live 007)
Wallpaper* [January/February 2003]

Wallpaper*: Architects Directory
Architects Directory
Wallpaper* [July/August 2002]

RIBA Journal: Foreign Legion
Foreign Legion RIBA Journal [March 2002]

Le Corbusier: Heidi Weber Pavilion, Zurich photograph © Thomas Deckker 1996
Architects and Technology
The Encyclopaedia of Architectural Technology [London: Wiley 2002]

Mission Concepcion (1755) San Antonio, Texas
Mexican-American Architecture
Mexican-American Encyclopaedia [2002]

W3 Brasilia 1960s Archive Photograph
Brasília
Canberra / Brasília
Canberra Contemporary Art Space [Canberra: CASC 2001]

Oscar Niemeyer: Congresso Naçional Brasília
In the Realm of the Senses
Architectural Design [July 2001]

Thomas Deckker: Magalhães House
Thomas Deckker: Two Projects in Brasília
Architectural Design [Oct 2000]

Degree Unit G: Mexico 1997-98
First International Seminar on the Teaching of the Built Environment [SIEPAC]
University of São Paulo, Brazil
13-15 Sept 2000

Thomas Deckker: The Modern City Revisited
The Modern City Revisited
[London: Routledge 2000]

Thomas Deckker (editor): Issues in Architecture Art & Design
Issues in Architecture Art & Design
vol. 6 no. 1 [University of East London 2000]

Luigi Snozzi: Monte Carasso, Bellinzona photograph © Thomas Deckker 1982
The re-invention of the site
Relating Landscape to Architecture
[London: Routledge 1999]

The Modern City Revisted Conference
The Modern City Revisited
University of East London
27/28 Mar 1999

Luigi Snozzi: Kalman House, Locarno photograph © Thomas Deckker 1982
Monte Carasso: The re-invention of the site
Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 5 no. 2 [University of East London 1998]

Donald Judd: Chinati Foundation, Texas
Specific Objects / Specific Sites
Rethinking the Architecture / Landscape Relationship, University of East London,
26-28 Mar 1996

Herzog & deMeuron: Hebelstrasse Apartments, Basle
Herzog & deMeuron
Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 3 no. 2 [University of East London 1994]

Edzell Castle, Angus
The Garden of Edzell Castle from the Ruined Bath House
photograph © Thomas Deckker 2014

Edzell Castle: Architectural Treatises in Late 16th Century Scotland

Garden History Society 2014

A special issue of The Pleasaunce dedicated to the gardens at Edzell Castle, Angus. The contents include:

Marilyn Brown: The Walled Garden at Edzell and Sir David Lindsay
➲ Marilyn Brown is author of Scotland's Lost Gardens: from the Garden of Eden to the Stewart Palaces (Edinburgh: RCAHMS, 2012)

Peter Davidson: Edzell Garden and the Lindsay Libraries
➲ Peter Davidson is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Thomas Deckker: Edzell Castle: Architectural Treatises in Late 16th Century Scotland
➲ Thomas Deckker is an architect in practice, a Geddes Fellow at the University of Dundee and a Visiting Researcher at King's College, London.

Click here to go to the Garden History Society website.
David Lindsay's garden at Edzell Castle was part of a larger enterprise of novel and sophisticated ideas - on architecture, gardening, cooking, hygiene and even mining - that transformed Scottish culture at the end of the sixteenth century. Scottish nobles looked, for a cultural model, to their peers in France, especially the Loire Valley and the Île-de-France, where a distinctively French culture had emerged among a new class of educated nobles, courtiers and administrators earlier in the century; they mixed a progressive development of the arts of civilisation with symbolic forms derived from the feudal past, to emphasise their - in many cases mythical - lineage.

Edzell Castle, Angus
The Garden of Edzell Castle
photograph © Thomas Deckker 2014
Through a detailed examination of the remains of the castle and its grounds, and from documentary sources from the Balcarrres Heritage Trust, Thomas Deckker shows that David Lindsay consciously sought out treatises from France not only on architecture such as Le Capitaine de Jerosme Cataneo by Girolamo Cataneo and Les plus excellents Bastiments de France by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau but also on husbandry and housewifery such as La Maison rustique by Charles Estienne.

Thomas Deckker has made a special study of French Renaissance chateaux and gardens.
Château de Bury from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: Les plus excellents Bastiments de France
Château de Bury
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: Les plus excellents Bastiments de France
Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire photo Thomas Deckker
Château de Chenonceau
photograph © Thomas Deckker 1987
Château de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire photo Thomas Deckker
Château de Chenonceau
photograph © Thomas Deckker 1987