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publications BBC: The Inquiry BBC World Service 2019 Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2016 Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia Architectural Design [April 2016] Two exhibitions for the McAslan Gallery McAslan Gallery 2016 Edzell Castle: Architectural Treatises in Late 16th Century Scotland Garden History Society 2014 Architecture and the Humanities Architectural Research Quarterly 2014 Urban Planning in Rio 1870-1930: the Construction of Modernity Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2014 Review of Remaking London: Design and Regeneration in Urban Culture Architectural Research Quarterly 2013 Life's a Beach: Oscar Niemeyer, Landscape and Women The Rest is Noise Festival South Bank, London 6 October 2013 BBC: Last Word BBC Radio 4 7 & 9 December 2012 Brasilia: Fictions and Illusions Brazil Institute, Kings College London 2012 Connected Communities Symposium University of Dundee 2011 Architecture + ESI: an architect's perspective FESI [The UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity] 2011 Review of Mapping London Architectural Research Quarterly 2010 Landworkers Dundee Contemporary Arts 14-28 May 2009 The Studio of Antonio Carlos Elias Epulis Fissuratum [Brasília 2006] Superquadra Penthouse Project Penthouse Living [Wiley 2005] Arquivo Brasília Sala Martins Penna Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro Brasília 19-20 April 2005 Revisiting Brazil RIBA Gallery 2 9-30 October 2003 Urban Entropies: A Tale of Three Cities Architectural Design [September 2003] New Architecture in Brazil - Photographs by Michael Frantzis Brazilian Embassy, London 5-6 March 2003 Natural Spirit (Places to Live 007) Wallpaper* [January/February 2003] Architects Directory Wallpaper* [July/August 2002] Foreign Legion RIBA Journal [March 2002] Architects and Technology The Encyclopaedia of Architectural Technology [London: Wiley 2002] Mexican-American Architecture Mexican-American Encyclopaedia [2002] Brasília Canberra / Brasília Canberra Contemporary Art Space [Canberra: CASC 2001] In the Realm of the Senses Architectural Design [July 2001] Thomas Deckker: Two Projects in Brasília Architectural Design [Oct 2000] First International Seminar on the Teaching of the Built Environment [SIEPAC] University of São Paulo, Brazil 13-15 Sept 2000 ➲ Conference Details ➲ Conference Text The Modern City Revisited [London: Routledge 2000] Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 6 no. 1 [University of East London 2000] The re-invention of the site Relating Landscape to Architecture [London: Routledge 1999] The Modern City Revisited University of East London 27/28 Mar 1999 Monte Carasso: The re-invention of the site Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 5 no. 2 [University of East London 1998] Specific Objects / Specific Sites Rethinking the Architecture / Landscape Relationship, University of East London, 26-28 Mar 1996 Herzog & deMeuron Issues in Architecture Art & Design vol. 3 no. 2 [University of East London 1994]

Degree Unit G: Mexico 1997-98 photograph © Thomas Deckker 1997 First International Seminar on the Teaching of the Built Environment [SIEPAC] University of São Paulo, Brazil 13-15 Sept 2000 Thomas Deckker was invited to give a retrospective of the work and the teaching practices he developed in Degree Unit G at the University of East London between 1991 and 1999 at an international conference on architectural education. Video: The Atelier Project in Teaching Conference Text Degree Unit G During the conference Thomas Deckker formed the concepts of the exhibitions New Architecture in Brazil - Photographs by Michael Frantzis and Revisiting Brazil which showed the work of the architect Joaquim Guedes as well as the re-urbanisation of the orignal urban centre of São Paulo.