All Outputs (18)

House in an Olive Grove (2024)
Physical Artefact

A new building that establishes a new 'vernacular' for a rural Greek landscape

Design as emergent making design as emergent making (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Through design practice, this research seeks mutually beneficial possibilities and connections that can be made between making and architecture. It asks how space can be discovered and accrued through full scale making, rather than pre-imagined via s... Read More about Design as emergent making design as emergent making.

Studio in the Woods 2018 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

In the Summer of 2018, a group of of over 50 architects, designers and carpenters camped out in England's Wyre forest as part of Studio in the Woods. Over four days in the woods they ate together, participated in lectures and crits and conceived, des... Read More about Studio in the Woods 2018.

Can Lis (2024)
Digital Artefact

Film about Jorn Utzon's Can Lis

House in a garden (2023)
Digital Artefact

Review of Gianni Botsford's House in a Garden

Westonbirt community shelter (2022)
Physical Artefact

A timber shelter designed as a research project with Xylotek to explore using Oak grown on site and making as empowerment with harder to reach and marginalised community groups

What does it take to make a building? (2022)
Digital Artefact

Film about Sarah Wigglesworth's practice

East Quay: Designing for change (2021)
Physical Artefact

East Quay is a £7m cultural development, much-lauded in the architectural press, and the recipient of multiple awards including SW RIBA Building of the Year. Designed by Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio, East Quay was commissioned and is now run by O... Read More about East Quay: Designing for change.

Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects (2021)
Thesis

The aim of this practice based thesis is to develop a framework to describe and evaluate the empowerment that takes place in the course of participatory ‘making’ in an architectural context. ‘Making’ research in architectural contexts is widespread,... Read More about Developing a framework for describing, planning and evaluating empowerment in architectural making projects.

East Quay, Watchet (2021)
Physical Artefact

A cultural centre developed as a piece of practice based research to enable social transformations(s)

Sunlight (2020)
Digital Artefact

A film about the work, research and approach of Gianni Botsford

Hope in hell (2020)
Journal Article

Book Review in RIBAJ of Jonathan Porritt's Hope in Hell

Solar Mirrors 2, Diptych (2020)
Digital Artefact

A diptych showing human interaction and the process of construction at Studio in the Woods, 2019.

Why architects matter (2018)
Journal Article

Review of Flora Samuel's book 'Why Architects Matter'

Australian Islamic Centre: Glenn Murcutt’s ‘Magnum opus’ (2017)
Journal Article

A review of Murcutt's Melbourne Mosque in the context of his practice output

On-making (2015)
Journal Article

Article on architectural making

Assemble: Built to Last (2014)
Journal Article

Review of Turner Prize winning practice Assemble

Hooke park Assembly Workshop (2012)
Physical Artefact

A big span timber structure designed as part of AA Design & Make as a research programme to use small scale juvenile larch with minimal steel fixings.