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Alternative Histories

November 2020

Alternative Histories

Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, Alternative Histories invited more than 80 contemporary practices in the UK and Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. Each office was assigned a different drawing from the collection of Drawing Matter. The architects were then tasked with making a model that not only responded to what they saw, but envisioned an alternative future for the original drawing while adhering to the constraints of the project

Our practice was given Basil Spence’s sketch for the enlargement of the Houses of Parliament. To view our response to this project please visit the Drawing Matter website here.

Studio In The Woods

July 2018

On the weekend of the 7th July Niall will be taking part in Studio In The Woods, a 3 day workshop that explores the testing of ideas through making with timber at 1:1. Over the course of the event workshops will be led by architects including Kate Darby, Meredith Bowles (Mole Architects), Je Ahn (Studio Weave), Lee Ivett (Baxendale), Gianni Botsford, Lynton Pepper (Architecture 00), Laura Mark, Charley Brentnall, Zoe Berman, Piers Taylor (Invisible Studio), Susanne Tutsch, Barbara Kaucky, and Erect.