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Peter Zumthor and Piet Oudolf with Fritz Hauser and Peter Conradin Zumthor Friday 9th September 2011 On a warm September afternoon we found ourselves among a small gathering of people that had come to hear Peter Zumthor talk about his Summer Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery. Piet Oudolf, a planting designer and expert horticulturalist was [ READ MORE ]
Attending the Dinesen ‘From Forest to Gallery’ talk was something I was looking forward to. Hosted at the Saatchi gallery (a showroom of the product itself) my wife and I arrived uncooly early. We were promptly followed by a collection of trendy youngish professional types. Enjoying the champagne we congregated around the works of Dirk [ READ MORE ]
I recently attended a talk from Jonathon Hines of Architype at Ebbw Vale covering the application of sustainable design within architecture and specifically timber frame construction. It rekindled a spark of excitement about design for me. A further read of their philosophy from an ‘about us’ pamphlet reinforces the unmistakable concept that you can definitely [ READ MORE ]
The following book review by practice director Kristian Hyde was recently published in the Welsh School of Architecture Journal MADE. “An international refereed architecture journal published by the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. made reflects the Schools interest in physical making in architecture, crafting and joining, as well as the intellectual making of the [ READ MORE ]
then occasionally, among all this noise we find ourselves confronted with an authentic historical artefact that arguably changed the course of modernism[ READ MORE ]
Hyde + Hyde visited the latest installation in the Curve at the Barbican by New York- based artist Peter Coffin. Coffins art is an alternative to rational thought. He is particularly intrigued by phenomena he does not understand and borrows from numerous disciplines, such as art history and physics. Intrigued with consistent ideas that inform [ READ MORE ]
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