Journal
Longer case write-ups with photographs, and short notes from the working week.
2026
Notes on specifying lime plaster
Four things we now write into every specification for lime plaster on old masonry.
2025
Studio closed over the winter break
The studio is closed from 20 December to 5 January. Email is read once a week during the break.
Case ·
Counting a facade before drawing it
Field notes on reading a building by counting its parts, from columns on a portico to balconies on a housing block.
Why we draw the section first
Plans are good at showing where rooms are. Sections are better at showing what it will feel like to be in them.
Case ·
What a ring of shelving does to a reading room
Notes from the reading-room study on shelving as partition, pendant lights as ceiling, and why the quietest seat is in the middle.
2024
Ein Tag im Archiv: on reading drawings we did not make, and what the pencilled margins told us about the builders who quietly ignored them
A day in a municipal archive with the original 1911 drawings for a school, and the builders' notes that disagree with them.