architecture

Watchet /  by James Whitaker

Research for our magazine has taken me down some fascinating routes. Yesterday, at the end of our family holiday we visited the new East Quay building in Watchet, UK. We go to Watchet quite often but this was our first trip since the building had finished.

On the drive back to London I discovered Laura Broderick’s podcast where she talks to Georgie Grant from the Onion Collective about their journey to create something for their town. It’s a brilliant story! Give it a listen if you can.

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We're Hiring /  by James Whitaker

Whitaker Studio is Hiring

Whitaker Studio is on the hunt for an excellent new team member to start immediately.

We have a bunch of projects scattered around the world, and as the number of projects grows our team needs to grow. We need people to help us turn these projects into reality. Sometimes we’ll need you to come up with great, bold ideas, and sometimes we’ll need you to be able to critique ideas and say it as you see it in a clear and articulate way. Other times we will need you to just knuckle down and get the work done; no questions. Sadly, great work isn’t easily done, and we have no appetite for the average. We work really hard every day to create the best possible designs we can. We want our work to be site-specific and original. We want to create work that people haven’t seen before. If you’re happy drawing up the status quo read no further.

But working hard doesn’t mean that we’re keen to work late every night. Sometimes we need to burn the midnight oil but rarely is great work done when tired and worn out. We’ve got friends and family too. If you need to arrange your day around childcare we can make that work. Or if you’d really like to start late on a Wednesday so you can go to yoga that can work too. We will measure you on the work you produce, not the hours you sit at your desk. But this means we need someone with good time management skills. If you always handed your work in late at uni we probably aren’t the right place for you.

So down to the specifics. We are looking for a RIBA Part 2 or Part 3 to join our team.

Applicants must:

  • be good at managing their own time

  • be eligible to work in the UK

  • be fluent in English, both spoken and written

  • have strong Adobe Illustrator skills

  • be quick and proficient in AutoCAD

  • have good 3D modelling skills. 3DS Max proficiency is desirable but a good level in Rhino would also be considered

The role is short term with the possibility of being extended. It will start immediately.

Send CVs and concise portfolios to jobs@whitakerstudio.co.uk

Upcycling: Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in Architecture /  by James Whitaker

Giant thanks to Daniel Stockhammer and Hanna Kuzniatsova at the University of Liechtenstein for including our container house in Joshua Tree, California in their book Upcycling: Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in Architecture. It’s a great honour!

If you’d like to get a copy here’s a link.

Chatting on Instagram Live /  by James Whitaker

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Hello fellow quarantiners!

The instagram page @architecturechat have invited me to chat/give a lecture on their Instagram live feed, so on Friday morning at 10am (here in sunny London) I'm going to do just that. Whoop! Taking advantage of the more personal nature of a webchat rather than a big lecture theatre it could be a great opportunity to answer some questions, chat about my projects and tell some entertaining tales. So send me your questions and I'll see what I can answer…