The Urban Shanty Builder is continually required to respond to the changing demands of the urban context. The House of Angels and Pins, is a place for the meeting of different realities, a ...
Matt Hawthorn
For the Urban Shanty Builder, the need to address the vernacular of the immediate environment is paramount if the Shanty is to have any sense of belonging and longevity. Just as the ...
The Urban Environment is a felt experience. From the sensations of the skin through to the empathic feelings of the tugged emotions. Even the visual experience, so crucial to the modern urban experience, ...
Of the materials which construct our sense of place, dust is the most visceral and ignored. Dust is the trace of the body, micro-fragments of our perpetually disintegrating fabric. For the Urban Shanty ...
Perpetual motion, usually of the energy expending kind flows through the Urban Environment. From the collisions of migration through to the ambulations of the urban walker, this drives the frisson of urban ...
