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narratives of architecture and design where people and movement meetDavid’s CV
For a full CV, please email betweenbooks [at] gmail.com. Below are listed David’s publications and other activities to date.
Publications
Published Books
2010 Food on the Move: the extraordinary world of the motorway service area. London: between books with Donlon Books. ISBN 9780953698011.
2008 Bright underground spaces: the London tube station architecture of Charles Holden. Harrow Weald (U.K.): Capital Transport. ISBN 9781854143204.
2000 A logo for London. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 9781854142320.
1999 Always a welcome: the glove compartment history of the motorway service area. Twickenham: Between Books. ISBN 9780953698004.
1994 Underground Architecture. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 9781854141606.
1989 London Transport Cap Badges. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 9781854141118.
Book Chapters and Contributions to Edited Books and Websites
2010 Catalogue writing: Archigram Archival Project, Centre for Experimental Practice, University of Westminster. http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/
2008 The School of Life: Ideas to live by. David Lawrence on the thrill of motorways.
2008 Savage School Window Gallery. Limited edition boxed set of screen prints by Cullinan and Richards with David Lawrence. Published October 2008.
2007 ‘Preview’ in: Kester Rattenbury and Samantha Hardingham. Supercrit #2: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Learning from Las Vegas. Abingdon: Routledge.
2006 Founding participant of The Archigram Archival Project, University of Westminster.
2005 ‘All the way from America’, in Architectural Design: The 1970s is here and now, vol. 75, no. 2, March/April, p. 94.
2005 The Motorway Archive: the online encyclopaedia of motorway heritage. http://www.ciht.org.uk/motorway/stats.htm [accessed 24 November 2010].
2005 ‘The Motorway Service Station’ in Holder, Julian, and Steven Parissien [eds.]. Studies in British Art 13: The Architecture of British Transport in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2003 Classic Cafes. ‘Always A Welcome: Great Transport Service Stations of the 60s & 70s’. http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/motorway_panel.htm.
1997 ‘Underground Architecture’, in Conserving the Railway Heritage. Burman, Peter, and Michael Stratton [eds.]. London: E & F N Spon, pp. 197-209.
Journal articles, presentations, lectures, broadcasts, reports and exhibitions
2011 Yesterday TV. ‘Valentine Warner Eats the 60s’. First transmitted 19 October. [Adviser and contributor].
2011 Green Growth Boot Camp exhibition. Kingston University with Mayor of London, Royal Bank of Scotland and Capital Enterprise. Thirty leading exhibitors from design innovation, sustainability and enterprise sectors. Launch 19 October. [curator and designer].
2011 Royal Geographical Society: Annual International Conference. 31 August-2 September. ‘The night-time geography of the motorway service area’. [invited guest speaker].
2011 BBC Radio 4. ‘Late nights at the Blue Boar’. First transmitted 12 July. [invited guest speaker].
2011 BBC Radio Northampton Pete Cooper for Bernie Keith. First transmitted 15 February. [invited guest speaker].
2011 ‘Standing on the verge of a secret world’. Commercial Motor, 10 February 2011, pp. 44-47.
2010 Invited speaker: Art on the Underground talks at City Hall. London Journeys – Value of Time, 2 June. Podcast available at http://art.tfl.gov.uk/participate/podcasts/#3.
2009 Contributor: BBC Radio 4. ‘M1: The Modernist Marvel’. First transmitted 4 Nov 2009.
2008 Leader: The School of Life: A Tour of the M1. With Alain de Botton, Edward Platt, and Mark Wilsmore. 25 October 2008. http://www.theschooloflife.com/Weekends/M1
2007 ‘The beauty of a wipe clean surface’. KIOSK, issue 1, 2007/08, pp. 49-56.
2007 Contributor: BBC Television. ‘The secret life of the motorway’. First transmitted BBC4 22 August.
2006 Contributor: BBC Television. ‘The Money Programme – Perils Of The Motorway Pitstop’. First transmitted 10 November 2006.
2006 Exhibiting artist: London Orbital. Kingston University Stanley Picker gallery 14-24 June.
2005 ‘Prospect Inn’. Grand Designs, September, p.132.
2005 Invited expert: BBC Radio 4. ‘You and Yours’. First transmitted 18 August 2005.
2004 Co-author with David Greene and Samantha Hardingham: LAWUN: the sustainable university: Project Broad-Band-Stand. Research proposal to Orange Mobile by the University of Westminster.
2004 Contributor: Art & the 60s: this was tomorrow. Tate Britain 30 June – 26 September.
2004 Contributor: Design Museum Archigram exhibition.
2004 Convenor, EXP Experimental Practice ‘Supercrit’. Learning from Learning from Las Vegas. University of Westminster, 16 March.
2003 Contributor: BBC Radio 4. ‘Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor’. First transmitted 17 December 2003.
2003 Co-convenor: EXP Experimental Practice ‘Supercrit’. Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt. University of Westminster, 5 November.
2003 ‘Space stations’. Intersection, issue 6, Autumn, pp. 74-75.
2003 Invited speaker: Tate Gallery conference: Automania: Cars, culture and Consumption.
2003 Invited speaker: Royal College of Art CHS lecture series.
2002 Leader: London Architecture Week. Tour of London’s fabulous tube stations, 22 June.
2002 The 5th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair. Dean Clough, Halifax. 16 March.
2002 20th Century Society Travel and Fantasy lecture series. ‘On the verge – the design and social history of the motorway service station’. 8 March.
2002 Contributor: Commission for Architecture in the Built Environment (CABE). Improving standards of design in the procurement of public buildings. London: Office of Government Commerce/CABE, March 2002.
2002 PhD Thesis, University of Westminster.
2001 Book review: ‘Michael T. Saler, The Avant-garde in Interwar England…’. London Journal, 26 (1).
2001 Leader: Architectural Dialogue (now Open House). London’s Jubilation Jubilee line tour, 2 December.
2001 Leader: Architectural Dialogue (now Open House). Underground Architecture tour, 18 August.
2001 Leader: Architectural Dialogue (now Open House). London’s Jubilation Jubilee line tour, 16 June.
2001 Leader: Architectural Dialogue (now Open House). Underground Architecture tour, 19 May.
2001 Leader, Architectural Dialogue (now Open House). Underground Architecture tour, 17 March.
2000 ‘London Transport Decades of Design’. Poster commissioned by London Transport Director of Design for display across the London Underground network.
2000 ‘Making London Simple’. Poster commissioned by London Transport Director of Design for display across the London Underground network.
2000 Postgraduate Diploma dissertation, University of Westminster.
2000 ‘The story of London’s most famous brand’. London Transport Museum lecture. 4 October.
2000 Destination Anywhere: The Architecture of Transport in the Twentieth Century’. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art conference. 8 March.
2000 Architectural Dialogue (formerly Open House, now Open-City). Underground Architecture tour, 29 January.
1999 Contributor: Sky Television: ‘The Artclub: Underground Art’. First transmitted 3 December 1999.
1999 Leader: Architectural Dialogue. Underground Architecture tour, 19 June.
1999 Leader: Architectural Dialogue. Underground Architecture tour, 13 February.
1998 Author: English Heritage. Audit and 10,000 word documentary report and visual archive for the Post War Listings Steering Group. Results of the research were published by English Heritage and cited in: Martin Cherry and Gill Chitty. Heritage protection reform implementation – Strategic designation: Review of past and present thematic programmes. February 2009.
1998 DesignWorks. Design research dossier commissioned by London Transport Director of Design for external communications and heritage purposes.
1997 BA Dissertation, Kingston University.
1996 Architectural Dialogue. Underground Architecture tour, 17 March.
1996 Tile designs artwork. RASSENGNA, year XVIII, 66, p. 34.
1995 Leader: World Congress on Art deco: visit to the Piccadilly Line with David Lawrence. 4 July.
1995 Leader: Twentieth Century Society. Architectural study tour: Looping the [Hainault] Loop. 12 November.
Book Reviews and Review Articles
2011 Ted Connolly. ‘Motorway Nostalgia: The fascination of service areas’. Classic & Vintage Commercials, vol. 17, no. 4, December, pp. 47-8 [book review].
2011 Robert Drake. ‘filling Stations’. C20: The magazine of the Twentieth Century Society, Autumn, p. 35 [book review].
2011 Sarah Bridge. ‘Did motorway services make the wrong turn?’ by Sarah Bridge. The Mail on Sunday - Financial section. 24 July 2011, p. 79 [contributor].
2011 Jonathan Bell. ‘Lifestyle: Book: Food on the Move – motorways and meals’. Wallpaper*, April, online review and gallery. http://www.wallpaper.com/lifestyle/book-food-on-the-move-motorways-and-meals/5197, and http://www.wallpaper.com/gallery/art/food-on-the-move/17052401.
2011 Owen Hatherley. ‘Digesting the full English’. Building Design, 28 March.
2011 ‘Editor’s Choice of the Month: Meals on Wheels’, Truck and Driver, March, p. 39.
2011 Will Wiles. ‘February Review: Book: Food on the move – the much maligned motorway service area gets the history it deserves’. ICON: International Design, Architecture & Culture, no. 092, February, pp. 76-77.
2010 Robin Brown. ‘Food on the Move: Our peculiar relationship with service stations’. Web article. 8 December. http://motortorque.askaprice.com/articles/auto-1012/food-on-the-move-our-peculiar-relationship-with-service-stations.asp
2010 ‘Grub stop groans’. Truckstop News, February, p. 13.
2009 ‘Gap service station tops author’s list’. Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 24 December. http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/gap_service_station_tops_author_s_list_1_895213
2009 ‘Motorway: Food’. adiNEWS, December, p. 48.
2009 Alexander Pemberton. ‘On the service station trail’. Bus and Coach, 27 November, p. 17.
2009 ‘Joy of service stations’. Surrey Comet, 20 November, p. 6.
2009 Jasper Gerard. ‘Motorway service stations – at your service?’ The Telegraph, 19 November.
2009 Barry Didcock. ‘Poet pays service to his motorway muse Radio review’. The Sunday Herald, 8 November. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20091108/ai_n42084660/.
2009 James Hall. ‘Service stations: a pop cultural history’. The Telegraph, 2 November.
2009 Danny Buckland. ‘Did Watford gap inspire Brown Sugar?’. Sunday Express, 1 November, pp. 22-23.
2009 Alan Powers. ‘Bright underground Spaces: The London Tube Station Architecture of Charles Holden’. Journal of Design History, Vol. 22, issue 3, September 2009, pp. 290-1.
2008 Simon Usborne. ‘The drive of our lives: 50 Years of Britain’s motorways’. The Independent, 24 November. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/the-drive-of-our-lives-50-years-of-britains-motorways-1031835.html
2008 Owen Hatherley. ‘Books of the year 2008’. New Statesman, 13 November. http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/book-life-world-love-novel.
2008 Stephanie Holmes, BBC News Magazine. ‘The M1 appreciation course’. 31 October. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7699343.stm.
2008 Joe Moran. ‘A mini-break on the M1’. The Guardian, 25 October. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/25/m1-road-trip-travel.
2008 Alain de Botton. ‘Take a holiday on the M’. Times Online. 27 September. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4825866.ece.
2007 Nancy Banks-Smith. ‘Once, motorways seemed magical – and the Beatles ate at service stations’. [Programme review]. The Guardian, 23 August, p. 31.
2007 James Walton. ‘The secret life of the motorway’. [Programme review]. The Daily Telegraph, 23 August, p. 36.
2007 Gerard Gilbert. Feature review: ‘The secret life of the motorway’. The Independent, 18 August, p. 47.
2007 John Walsh. ‘This road trip really got my motor running: The secret life of the motorway’. [Programme review]. The Independent, 23 August, p. 18.
2007 John Dugdale. ‘Pick of the day: The secret life of the motorway’. [Programme review]. The Sunday Times: Culture, 19 August, p. 60.
2007 Cat Turnell. ‘Memorial Services’. Leicester Mercury, 24 February, p. 10.
2007 Helen Power. ‘An exercise in how not to run a fast food chain’. The Sunday Telegraph: Business, 7 January, p. B3.
2007 John Harris. ‘Life in the fast lane – part one looks at the evolution of the service station’. The Guardian, 22 January.
2006 ‘Patrick Garnett’. The Independent, 5 June 2006, p. 32. [Obituary].
2006 Maurice May. ‘Perils of the motorway pit stops’. BBC News: BBC Money Programme. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6136684.stm.
2005 Catherine Croft. ‘Moving swiftly on’. Building Design, 14 January, p. 22.
2004 Andrew Martin. Journey’s End (Review). New Statesman, 1 November. http://www.newstatesman.com/200411010047.
2002 Alain de Botton. ‘Personal Best: books of the year’. The Guardian, 7 December, p. 4.
2001 Elaine Singleton. ‘Miles better than we used to be’. Lancashire Evening Post, 16 August, pp. 18-19.
2000 Michael Bracewell. ‘Road to Nowhere’. Frieze, Issue 54, September-October. http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/road_to_nowhere/.
2000 Ann Bird. ‘One man and his motorway mania’. The Telegraph, 20 May. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/722461/UK-One-man-and-his-motorway-mania.html.
2000 ‘Books: Always a welcome’. Sleazenation, March, vol. 3, issue 2, n. p.
2000 Daniel Abrahams. ‘Life in fast lane’. The Kingston Informer, 25 February, p. 8.
2000 Grant Gibson. ‘One for the road’. Blueprint, February.
2000 Paul Finch. ‘Always a welcome…’. The Architects’ Journal, 24 February, pp. 70-71. [book review].
2000 ‘Road Hogs’. Financial Times Weekend, 29 January, p. 8.
1999 ‘Destination Anywhere’. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Newsletter, Issue 9 December, p. 1.
1999 Andrew Smith. ‘Tubeway Army’. Life: The Observer Magazine, 7 November, pp. 28-30, 32-35.
1999 Nicholas Lezard. ‘Services rendered’. The Guardian, 23 August, pp. 10-11.
1999 Jamie Doward. ‘Motorway meccas get mall makeover’. The Observer Business section, 22 August, p. 6.
1999 Susie Steiner. ‘Greetings from Broxbourne…wish you were here’. The Times, 21 August, n.p.
1999 Phil Stubbs. ‘Service stations enter a new era’. Derby Evening Telegraph, 26 June, pp. 6-7.
1999 Steve Edwards. ‘Uncovering hidden depths’. Enfield Gazette, 18 February, p. 9.
1999 ‘What’s On: Underground trip’. The Guardian: Space, 12 February, p. 3.
1999 Peter Conchie. ‘Taking the designer line to Arnos Grove’. Evening Standard, 29 January, pp. 30-31.
1996 Metro. ‘Metrotravel: Tour of the Tube’s landmark designs’. 16 March.
1995 Hugh Pearman. ‘Materials from the building merchants’. The Sunday Times, 26 November, pp. 14-15.
1995 Alastair Best. ‘Space stations of suburbia’. Heritage Today, June, p. 17. [book review].
1995 Susie Barson. ‘Underground overground’. Building Design, 28 April, p. 23. [book review].
1995 Kenneth Powell. ‘Tunnel vision of the Underground bosses’. The Architects’ Journal, 16 March. [book review].
1995 Jonathan Glancey. ‘Underground resistance’. The Independent: Metro, 24 February, p. 5. [book review].
1995 ‘Pulling out all the stops’. Publishing News, 24 February, p. 4. [book review].
1995 Roger Tagholm. ‘Ace station spotter’. Midweek magazine, 20-23 February, p. 10.
Select Citations
David Lawrence is commonly cited in the company of J. G. Ballard, Iain Sinclair, Julian Opie, Ed Platt, Joe Moran, Martin Parr, Marc Augé, Eitan Karol.
In books
Watson, Georgia Butina, and Ian Bentley. Identity by Design. Oxford: Buttth-erworHeinemann, 2007, p. 277.
Karol, Eitan. Charles Holden: architect. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2007, bibliography.
Fraser, Murray, and Joe Kerr. Architecture and the ‘Special Relationship’: The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture. London: Routledge, 2007, p. 150, note 99.
Moran, Joe. Reading the everyday. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005, pp.108-9, 113, 114, 126.
Horlock, Mary. Modern Artists: Julian Opie. London: Tate Publishing, 2004, p.119; p.122 note 32.
Sinclair, Iain. London Orbital: A Walk around the M25. London: Penguin Books, 2003. (Citation in Select Bibliography).
Bracewell, Michael. When surface was depth. Cambridge (Mass.): Da Capo Press, 2002, pp.286-8.
Wollen, Peter, and Joe Kerr. Autopia: Cars and Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2002, pp.291-2.
Taylor, Sheila and Oliver Green. The Moving Metropolis: A History of London’s Transport since 1800. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2001, (two citations in bibliography).
Saler, Michael T. The Avant-garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, p.105/n. 84, p. 118/n. 131, Bibliography.
