Essay
On the ethics of stone
Six ways of thinking about weight, quarrying and permanence — and what it means to specify a material that will outlast the client.
12 min read
Journal
Notes from the studio
Field Notes
A week in Menorca
Site visits at Cala Blanca as the first volumes come out of the ground and the light begins to behave.
6 min read
Interview
In conversation with Kengo Kuma
On slowness, materiality and the courage to be quiet in an age of louder buildings.
18 min read
Essay
Rooms without programme
In praise of the unlabelled space and the household member who will invent a use for it.
8 min read
Process
The first sketch is never the first sketch
How a project actually begins in our studio — and why the received wisdom is a lie.
9 min read
Field Notes
Ninety minutes in the Kyoto atrium
A photographer's diary from Atrium House, one year after completion.
5 min read