principles

  • “architecture is basically a container of something. I hope people will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”


    yoshio taniguchi, japanese architect, 2001

  • “Such is the power, sometimes called malignant, sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherous city, possesses; if for eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agate, onyx, chrysoprase, your labour which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you're enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.”


    Italo Calvino, 1972

    Italian writer

  • "Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more. A house should be a bunch of places - a city a bunch of places no less"


    -Aldo van Eyck, 1961
    Dutch architect

  • “strength has nothing at all to do with weight. The mentality of the men who do things in the world is agile, light and strong. strength is never just weight- in men or things”


    henry ford, 1922

 

we hope that our collected writings and publications give an impression of how we tend to approach projects. We have no manifesto as such, merely an understanding of how we as a group of creative professionals best work together; we believe that the best solution to any problem is usually an open mind. One of our earlier published texts perhaps best illustrates our outlook, published by Prospect Magazine in May 2004.