Materials library: Assemble
Peter Songi2022-05-23T16:31:43+01:00Maria Lisogorskaya discusses the collective’s approach to combining bespoke materials and finishes with off-the shelf products.
Materials Library: Groupwork
Peter Songi2022-05-11T11:48:41+01:00Amin Taha and Jason Coe explain the guiding principles behind the practice’s often innovative and always expressive use of materials.
Materials Library: White Red Architects
Peter Songi2022-05-11T11:58:03+01:00Director Joe Haire explains how the practice’s growing interest in sustainability and the circular economy is reshaping its approach to design and materiality.
Materials Library: Hawkins\Brown Architects
Peter Songi2021-11-30T18:54:50+01:00Morag Morrison and Massimo Tepedino talk about promoting the use of colour and materiality in projects and how the practice’s H\B:ERT tool shows the carbon embodiment of each material used.
Materials Library: Squire & Partners
Peter Songi2022-05-11T12:00:30+01:00Maria Cheung explains how two meticulously organised materials libraries reflect the importance of materiality, craft and making to the practice’s design approach.
Materials Library: 31/44 Architects
Peter Songi2021-08-25T16:39:36+01:00Jamie Flynn and Tobias Jewson focus on finding lightweight low carbon solutions for sensitive sites and reducing the number of samples that end up in the skip.
Materials Library: Nimtim Architects
Peter Songi2021-08-19T14:59:54+01:00Allie Mackinnon and Charlotte Qureshi enjoy materials that are sustainable, bold and colourful, and think outside the (pure white) box.
Source Material
AT Editor2021-08-19T14:58:45+01:00Materials Library
Samples kept by the practice can alter a project’s direction, finds Tom Whittaker of David Kohn Architects
Curator’s Picks
AT Editor2021-08-19T14:58:48+01:00Materials Library
Nina Wigfall has sole charge of Softroom's samples resource and archive
Behind the Curtain
AT Editor2019-12-16T11:49:27+01:00Materials Library
Friedrich Ludewig of Acme wants a space where you can be immersed in materials
Stored in the Cellars
AT Editor2021-08-19T14:58:49+01:00Materials Library
Rob Leechmere of Jonathan Tuckey Design, whose samples are kept in the vaults of a former public house
