Practice14 OCT 20267 min
Drawing is how we think
Why the section comes before the plan in our studio, and what a line can decide that a sentence cannot.
07Journal
Notes, essays, site reports
Notes from the drawing board
01All articles
Showing 06 of 06
Process02 SEP 20265 min
Why we still build models at 1:50
A model is slow, expensive and impossible to email. It is also the only drawing a client reads without help.
Site notes21 JUL 20269 min
Notes from the Nine Lights site
Fourteen months of weekly site visits, written up: what went to plan, what did not, and what we would draw differently.
Materials05 JUN 20266 min
Timber that weathers well
Larch, chestnut and charred pine after five winters. A field report with photographs and moisture readings.
Practice18 APR 20264 min
A brief is a question
Most briefs describe a building. The useful ones describe a problem and leave the building to us.
Materials03 MAR 20268 min
Daylight is a material
How we size north lights, and why the library has nine of them.
Site notes27 JAN 20266 min
Making ground
Two years of soil-building in a granite quarry before the first tree went in.
Newsletter
Four letters a year
One essay, one drawing and news from site. Nothing else, and you can leave whenever you like.