Some exciting updates this afternoon from India: we've received via email a large group of photographs from Sam Barclay, one of the team who are currently assembling the...
Andrew Freear, Director of Rural Studio, flew in to the UK today from Alabama (after a short detour to Florence). Andrew and I travelled down to Hampshire to visit Green Oak...
We have just been sent a lovely little video by Sou Fujimoto, the architect who will be building a hollow, transparent tree-form on the Architecture Gallery landing. You may...
I've been thinking a lot about reading spaces recently... Rintala Eggertsson Architects will be building a tower of books for the exhibition, which will be located at the...
In December, we discussed with Carlos Teixeira how to rationalise and simplify the spatial arrangement of the performance booths in his structure, 'Spiral Booths' (based...
I've just got back from a very productive research trip to China. In addition to meetings with architects and designers in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, I spent a day at...
This week we received some early Christmas presents from India - from two...
During this afternoon's scheme design presentation, Sou Fujimoto explained how his acrylic tree structure, the Outside/Inside Tree has been greaty rationalised and simplified....
The Japanese architect, Terunobu Fujimori arrived in London today, and he started off with a visit to the V&AMedieval &Renaissance Daylit Gallery where he will be building...
This afternoon we had a scheme design presentation from Studio Mumbai (Director, Bijoy Jain and Michael Anastassiades - a long-term collaborator). The design has changed quite...
This weekend I went along to a preview for the recently-completed house for the artist Brad Lochore – designed by Tony Fretton Architects. It’s a rather strange...
As mentioned in a previous post, we have decided to move Studio Mumbai's structure from its original location (the National Art Library staircase - where instead we'll be...
This morning, Lizzie and Ihad a very exciting visit to the V&ADaylit Gallery, currently under construction, and soon to form part of the Museum's brand new Medieval...
Our first concept model submission has arrived! Ryo Tsuchie, one of the team in Sou Fujimoto's office arrived at the Contemporary Team offices here at the V&Athis...
I'm currently on secondment 3 days a week to the V&AContemporary Team, while curating the '1:1' exhibition. Today we had an away day to Manchester to check out the...
Of course, the V&A is by no means the first museum to bring an exhibition audience face-to-face with full-scale architectural commissions. In fact, the Museum of Modern Art in...
I've been thinking a lot about the narrative structure of the exhibition. Idon't want the show to simply be a series of disparate installations. I'm keen for the built...
Hello - and welcome to the first entry of the '1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces' blog. Over this coming year, I'll be sharing with you some of the thoughts and...
