We are interested in the world as found.
Our practice-based research seeks to build up an anthropology of the familiar. Through our projects we integrate fragmentary observations as a way to understand the qualities and histories of places, in order to design architecture of social and urbanistic continuity.
Emma Filippides is a designer, writer and researcher. Ben Rea is an architect. We gained experience through our time spent studying in the UK and Switzerland, respectively. We have worked for numerous award-winning architecture practices in the UK and Belgium including Tim Ronalds Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, Marie-José Van Hee, Robbrecht en Daem architecten, NU architectuuratelier and Haworth Tompkins.
We founded our practice in Ghent, Belgium in 2020 and we are currently based in north London.
Contact: info@islandsinthestudio.com
Islands of Architecture is an ARB-certified practice, registration number 110104A.
Our practice-based research seeks to build up an anthropology of the familiar. Through our projects we integrate fragmentary observations as a way to understand the qualities and histories of places, in order to design architecture of social and urbanistic continuity.
Emma Filippides is a designer, writer and researcher. Ben Rea is an architect. We gained experience through our time spent studying in the UK and Switzerland, respectively. We have worked for numerous award-winning architecture practices in the UK and Belgium including Tim Ronalds Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, Marie-José Van Hee, Robbrecht en Daem architecten, NU architectuuratelier and Haworth Tompkins.
We founded our practice in Ghent, Belgium in 2020 and we are currently based in north London.
Contact: info@islandsinthestudio.com
Islands of Architecture is an ARB-certified practice, registration number 110104A.
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are both together and apart.
respond generously to their boundaires and thresholds.
foster relations between the individual and the collective.
permit evolving practices of living and being.
communicate a set of scale relations with the human at the centre.
are both radical and familiar.
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are both together and apart.
respond generously to their boundaires and thresholds.
foster relations between the individual and the collective.
permit evolving practices of living and being.
communicate a set of scale relations with the human at the centre.
are both radical and familiar.