As Alison & Peter Smithson once suggested, the act of writing a book is, in many respects, akin to designing a building. Both acts give tangible form to an arrangement of ideas, gathering others along the way and multiplying their meaning through an exercise in synthesis and composition. In both cases, what is omitted holds as much weight as what is included.Yet this comparison is more than convenient metaphor. Beyond this analogy between buildings and books, there are also parallels and affinities in the very process of making them.
In atelier local: after five years of living, the authors offer a reflective analysis — at once retrospective and introspective — on a selection of projects and buildings that shaped the first five years of their architectural practice.