At AA Bedford Square, with Brett Steele, Ted Cullinan and Richard Burton, discussing the strategy for this year’s projects with the Design and Make Students… What does it mean for us to engage with the local context, culture and landscape around Hooke Park in an interesting way when almost without exception contemporary architecture in this country that claims to (awful word) ‘reflect’ the local vernacular ends up distressingly anodyne, lame and desperately dull… What does in mean for us to shift paradigms in term of an attitude to sustainability at Hooke when the default position of many new supposedly sustainable new rural buildings is to make it out of timber, bung some renewables on, and call it eco…
