Ricardo
Descendant of vikings. Head of Architecture in rail, & artist, musician & educator. Prof, Principal, public speaker, author, founder. LCM, RSC, BBC, Sky, XBOX, LNER & more. Published/Exhibited. Charity chair. PROWIBO. BAFTA, FRSA, Soc of Authors. Dry SOH
- When you say to someone “times have changed” or “things are different now,” because you disagree with something they say, you dismiss their entire culture & life experience at a stroke, in a way you would never do by asking an immigrant to move on and forget theirs. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
- That’s why I’m out. No more gigs like this for me. It’s been Neo liberal, middle class commoditised. apple.news/AUeBo9u1LTOa...
- Love Rogier. A vision of a future that never was. #photography #architecture
- Alt text. Button pressed early - apologies - fat fingers accident. Anyway, three views of the spectacular modernist geometry that is Rogier station in Bruxelles. Deep twisting geometry and concrete
- More, London Bridge #architecture
- London Bridge area #photography
- Chris Mason on BBC News really is quite extraordinarily biased against non right wing parties. It’s embedded in almost everything he says.
- Just watching the news about the restoration of parliament buildings. Tens of billions. Just build a brand new one outside London. Quicker and cheaper,
- Just went by Benugo. Chatted to the manageress and she stamped me a loyalty card with 6 out of 9 slots. It’s weird that people are either that nice to me or horrible and there’s no middle ground. She does know I buy drinks there often, but still v kind.
- The more you look at it, the reason Mandelson was made ambassador was probably because of his connections with the US right and Epstein. It was a gamble that's failed- he should have linked with EU. He would actually have been safer using Blair in that position & that's saying something.
- “Latest figures from NTS … UK adults now receive average of 7 scam calls or texts per month, with about 1 in 5 (21 per cent) receiving them most days & 9 per cent receiving them every day.” I’m one of the 9%. I have mine set on auto voicemail mode unless I know number. apple.news/A3INY81fiRie...
- It’s not funny. www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/02...
- Finally winning.
- Nope. Still can’t believe this. apple.news/AV8ovc5w9TBi...
- A snap of rainy London today. #photography
- I lost best friends and siblings when I got ill. They still haven’t contacted me. Not one “I see you’ve been ill, how are you doing?” Nothing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- #Mocktheweek has been surprisingly funny so far. The internet gets the instant reaction jokes these days but the interplay between the comics is its real strength.
- Well we are already down 1 month of the year. Remember the first 12 are the worst.
- Another coxes lock #landscape #surrey
- Swans #coxeslock #surrey
- I like instagram because it’s so quiet and I can stream my photos and art for free. It’s shite as a social network though. www.instagram.com/richardfadams
- Strip away the frameworks and you’re left with three core archetypes: The Why People. The What People. The How People. None of this needs a chart, a colour, or a Myers-Briggs label. It just requires noticing who’s asking which question. open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
- Kitchen triptych #art
- This means of course that Altman, Musk et al wil have to pay taxes, Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job & You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself. “Altman has previously called for “universal extreme wealth for all,” unlocked by AI.” apple.news/ABQ_ccfrZTza...
- Swans, Coxes lock, Surrey #photography #landscape
- Coxes lock, Surrey #photography #landscape
- What the AIs i use think of me. “your creative identity is distributed across media, but there is a single through-line: constructing and interrogating systems of meaning.” open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
- Where do we start? Well for starters, Most students are middle class so there’s little anger. The system is fully commoditised for sales and collecting. “Slogan” depth to the work only. Wider culture is just content. Identity politics are rife I could go on. apple.news/Afr3aRoCsSFy...
- I never mentioned critics who’ve ever made any art,
