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Acknowledgements

A special debt of gratitude is owed to the

architectural practices who generously

gave their time to talk to me and contribute

images for publication. Their willingness to

talk about their work with such insight and

openness was critical to the development

of the book. I would like to thank:

Julian Lewis, Dann Jessen and Judith Lösing

of East; Raoul Bunschoten of CHORA;

John Tuomey and Sheila O’Donnell of

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects; Craig Dykers

and Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta; and

Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins of

Haworth Tompkins.

Thanks are also due to those who kindly

contributed images of their work and

information about it and also those who

helped with the sourcing of images and the

setting up of the interviews: Kamiel Klaasse

of NL Architects; Tiffany A Taraska of SHoP

Architects; Dirk Lellau and Liva Dudareva

of CHORA; Monika Hinz of O’Donnell +

Tuomey Architects; Elin Nilsen and

Karianne Pedersen of Snøhetta; Brian Yeats

of Haworth Tompkins; Emi Takahashi of Klein

Dytham architecture; Davide Giordano of

Zaha Hadid Architects; Christian Gänshirt;

Kate Goodwin and Simone Sagi of the

Royal Academy; Joseph Grima of Storefront

for Art and Architecture; Wells Cathedral

Stonemasons and Nigel Hiscock.

Thank you to Rachel Netherwood,

Caroline Walmsley and Leafy Robinson

at AVA Publishing and Jane Harper for the

design of the book.

Architectural design

In particular I would like to thank

Helena Webster for first suggesting that

I write this book, Professor Mark Swenarton,

John Stevenson, Colin Priest,

Emmanuel Dupont and Carsten Jungfer

of the Department of Architecture, Oxford

Brookes University and my former colleague,

Ana Araujo.

A special acknowledgement is due to the

student contributors of images and design

diary entries: Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez,

Anna Beer, Joseph Brown, Elliott Cohen,

Ryan Doran, Edmund Drury, William Fisher,

Gavin Fraser, Joanna Gorringe Minto,

Geoffrey Howells, Huda Jaber,

John Marshall, Heena Mistry,

Jack Morton-Gransmore,

Jonathan Motzafi-Haller, Holly Newnham,

Ralph Saull, U Ieong To,

Justus Van Der Hoven, Esther Vince,

James Williamson, Farah Yusof and

Anna Zezula. And of course, thank you

First Year, whose energy and originality

inspired this book.

This book could not have happened without

the support of my family. Thank you.

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