Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer who has been part of the architectural writing establishment since, it feels, time immemorial (which, in this case, is 1990). His satirical column in the British weekly Architects' Journal provides a spread that every reader looks forward to and now, after accumulating over a quarter of a century's writing, is crowdfunding to compile a compendium entitled Epic Space. 

Ian Martin and London's 'Shard'. Image via Unbound

Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer who has been part of the architectural writing establishment since, it feels, time immemorial (which, in this case, is 1990). His satirical column in the British weekly Architects' Journal provides a spread that every reader looks forward to and now, after accumulating over a quarter of a century's writing, is crowdfunding to compile a compendium entitled Epic Space. Featuring a selection of the best columns of recent years, each essay is written in diary form, "describing the working life of an amoral consultant with powerful friends, including members of the Cabinet and HRH the Prince of Wales." It is, according to Martin, "a woozy version of our own world ? but one in which Martin and his friend, the nanofuturologist Beansy, can invent Kryptogel, a new building material developed using ?hard air?.""Although the column started life as a sarcastic in-house joke for architects, it has blossomed over t...