Who's Making This
I'm Gleb Redko. I write code and I set type, in roughly equal measure, and I've been doing both long enough that they stopped being two separate jobs. It's why this site looks like a photocopier accident instead of a CMS.
One half is full-stack development, mostly inside universities. The other is a PhD at the School of Architecture, Art & Design in Portsmouth, on punk, Brutalism and the Situationists, with a fellowship at Yale's Beinecke in the middle of it. They meet in architectural history: post-war plans, 3D modelling and CAD, slab blocks re-clad or demolished before anyone agreed what they meant and the gap between what the drawing promised and what actually got poured.
This site is part of the research, not a report on it. I built it myself, so when it breaks, that's me too.
About This Zine
This is a zine documenting my PhD research that sits at the crossroads of Brutalist architecture, psychogeography, punk, Situationist theory, and urban decay. It started during my MA, which resulted in a digital dérive map, still online in the menu. Now, it's expanding into something messier: field notes, analogue photos, fragments of readings, détournements, dead ends, and breakthroughs.
Research Focus
I'm looking at how the raw material of the city (concrete, graffiti, dead spaces, tower blocks) shaped subcultures and counter-movements. Especially in Britain. Especially when things began to fall apart. The project draws on punk's rage, the Situationists' dérives, and the architecture of failed utopias.
What You'll Find Here
You'll find here traces: things I made, things I found. Some are mine, others credited. This is not a finished archive, it's a working space. A collage of research in motion. If you're into cities, resistance or just want to look closer at the cracks in the concrete, welcome.
