The geometry for our restaurant in Mauritius is starting to really come together. It was very satisfying to see this latest iteration fall into place.
Structural engineering is by Simple Works.
Mauritius Restaurant opens like a flower /
Some new images of the Starburst House /
Upcycling: Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in Architecture /
Giant thanks to Daniel Stockhammer and Hanna Kuzniatsova at the University of Liechtenstein for including our container house in Joshua Tree, California in their book Upcycling: Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in Architecture. It’s a great honour!
If you’d like to get a copy here’s a link.
Design Tellers Article /
Another lovely article about our container house in Joshua Tree on Design Tellers.
Container Magazine (but not those sort of containers) /
A big thanks to Maria Anton Sanz and the team at Container magazine in Mexico for their piece about our Joshua Tree Residence. (Container is an art and design magazine that has nothing to do with the shipping boxes.)
“A good architecture provokes reactions”, this is how our special chat with James Whitaker begins, he is the founding architect of Whitaker Studio, creator of this “contained” house. “I don’t feel excited about buildings that simply do their work. Whether the architectural piece leads to a visceral emotion or there is an intellectual depth in the work, I feel attracted by architecture with certain je ne sais quoi. A work that responds to all the practical demands asked (avoiding rain and heat, for example), but then it is taken further and it becomes an artwork you can live in”.
Listen to the Silence /
My rambling chat on ArchitectureChat /
Here’s the rambling chat that I did this morning on @ArchitectureChat Instagram feed. I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions write in the comments section below and I will try my best to answer them for you.
Hope you’re all staying safe and well!
Chatting on Instagram Live /
Hello fellow quarantiners!
The instagram page @architecturechat have invited me to chat/give a lecture on their Instagram live feed, so on Friday morning at 10am (here in sunny London) I'm going to do just that. Whoop! Taking advantage of the more personal nature of a webchat rather than a big lecture theatre it could be a great opportunity to answer some questions, chat about my projects and tell some entertaining tales. So send me your questions and I'll see what I can answer…
Exploded Net /
I rather like this drawing, an exploded net of the Joshua Tree Residence.
Into the great wide open /
I was looking back at the Space Baby series of images that I made a few years ago and this one drew a wry smile. What comes next? I hope you're all well and staying safe.