Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0014
T. Yarrow
Tom and Tomas trace the genesis of their interests in making through different personal experiences but also through their subsequent involvements in each other’s lives. A friendship that developed, in part, out of a common interest in making was given impetus through a practical exploration of these ideas. Tom explains: “We both realized we lived near here, had long holidays, we both liked making things, and we probably had very similar architectural sensibilities. We both liked and valued similar things, so we ended up building a tree house for someone.”...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0011
T. Yarrow
For some people [architecture] can be a profession. It’s not ordinary for that to be the case. I think it’s ordinary for you to think about it and to look at things in different ways, and when you’re anywhere to be thinking “oh, a building here could be really good,” or maybe “no building here could be really good.” You’re constantly forming opinions on things even without realizing it. Anyone who designs something has a constant will to design, and will continue to design when they’re asleep, awake, with friends, with partners. It doesn’t really stop....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0053
T. Yarrow
The architectural historian and practitioner Robin Evans was interested in things “opposed but not necessarily incompatible.”2 The descriptions in this book are about many things but most centrally can be read as an ethnographic elaboration of this idea: how, in terms set out at the start (...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0005
T. Yarrow
Unlike the practices on which architectural critics and indeed ethnographers have tended to focus, MHW is not famous. Employing ten architects during the period I did my work, the practice is slightly smaller than the U.K. national average of just under fourteen.19 In their mid-thirties, the two directors are relatively young, as is the staff profile of the practice more generally. All are in their twenties and thirties, with the exception of David, the father of Tomas. This youth is something they often present as a virtue, making representational capital through coupling that word with others with which it is popularly associated; “dynamic,” “creative,” “innovative,” “fresh,” “original” are words that feature on their website. As a small-to-medium-size practice, MHW rarely takes on projects with budgets of less than £100,000 and is mostly focused on large domestic extensions and renovations, one-off new builds, and small public buildings. The firm’s projects involve close working relationships with individual clients, planners, builders, engineers, and other building specialists contracted as consultants when needed. Design and then construction work involves regular site visits. Involvement in these various aspects of the process of design and construction is at one level a necessity for a practice of this size. At another level they see these working practices as a virtue tying into a broader philosophy. Unlike larger practices where specialism and fragmentation are more common, the company takes pride in aiming to connect processes of design and construction, celebrates the “ownership” of projects by individual architects, and aims to keep organizational structures flat....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0033
T. Yarrow
Where do ideas come from? In architecture as in design and art more generally, ideas of creative individuality have had a powerful explanatory hold, at least from the Enlightenment onward. One striking twentieth-century depiction is Ayn Rand’s character Howard Roark in the novel The Fountainhead...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0043
T. Yarrow
On a site meeting at Wormwood House, the groundworks are completed and the stud walls are in construction. Edward, the builder, is unfazed by a minor amendment to the plan, resulting from a client change of mind: they want to move a window. “It might cause a small delay, but we will try to make it up.” Edward sees this as part of the “give and take” of building. Rob pushes for clarity: “It’s a design variation, so in the worst-case scenario what would it cost?” he asks. Later, in the car on the way back, he describes the balance inherent in managing interactions on-site—between what’s “contractual” and what’s “sensible and friendly.” For a project to run smoothly, it is important to cultivate good working relationships: the architect tries to accommodate and be flexible if things are built other than to the plan. In return, the builder might accommodate small changes without additional costs. “Often it works best to be friendly and a bit jokey—to keep a positive dynamic,” he tells me, recognizing the instrumental importance of ...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0051
T. Yarrow
Architects are constantly moving toward something that does not as yet exist.37 The reality of the building comes after the fact of a plan. At one level the plan and the reality are obviously unalike; yet at another level the relationship between these must be a literal one. In the process of building, some elements are kept constant, while others transform out of all recognition. Radical shifts in scale and material substance take place, as proportions and forms are exactly preserved....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0009
T. Yarrow
Now in his sixties, David reflects on his architecture and his life from the other end of his career. He remains an affiliate of the practice but is now semiretired, mostly working on his own to the extent he continues to do so. As in Rosy’s life, there are questions about the relationship between his life and work, and even some doubts, but David’s are more directed backward than forward, more about what he has done than what he will do....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.003.0049
T. Yarrow
During one of our discussions Tomas reflects on the problems of setting a collective pace for their work, contrasting the activities in the office with those of a more obviously manual character.: “In the office I find people are going at their own paces, whereas on a building site, if one of you is fitting a set of cabinets and the other’s fitting a bench seat, at lunch time, when you look at each other’s work, it’s really obvious how far along you’ve got with it.” Seated at computers, the processes and products of the working life of a designer lack these obvious qualities of visibility. Consequently, the pace and tempo of these tasks can be difficult for others to discern. Designs are tucked away in digital folders, or glimpsed only in the fleeting movements and partial perspectives of the flickering screens of others. Watch what they do and it is equally difficult to tell anything about the pace of their work: mouse clicks; eyes absorbed; bodily movements are minimal. In any case, there is little if any visible relationship between the speed at which the task is performed and the rate at which the design progresses....
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Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501738500-005
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