Our Publications - Hawkins\Brown

Ideas Exchange The Collaborative Studio of Hawkins\Brown

Detail: Published by Birkhauser, 2011
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Hawkins\Brown's approach can be characterised by a willingness to explore different aesthetics, materials and forms. They embrace community engagement and collaborations with other creative contributors. Architects, they suggest, are no longer the lone directors of their art and instead have learned to be team players in a much more comprehensive way than in the recent past.

“We have reached a moment where the rules have been frayed and the possibilities are open-ended and dynamic, heralding a bright future.”
— Jes Fernie

Salt Bridges Changing Perceptions Of Art/Architecture and Science

Detail: Published by Prestel, 2010
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Salt Bridges is a term used in protein chemistry to describe a strong interaction between oppositely charged residudes. In this book it describes the relationship between the architecture of Hawkins\Brown, biochemistry and art.
Project: University of Oxford New Biochemistry

“Each of the artworks installed in New Biochemistry are sensitively fashioned so as to respond to the architecture in a physical way. Fraiser's diptych is visible from various points as you ascend and descend the stairs, slicing across the atrium; the contributions by both Head and Hirst are, literally, part of the fabric of the building.”
— Alex Coles

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Detail: Published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd., 2003
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Projects never end up as they start out, not least at Hawkins\Brown. This book includes everything we weren't asked to do, but did. This is a lucid manifesto with 9 chapters and 38 sub-sections of evidence, to be read in any order. In the true spirit of &\also please take out what you want when you want.

“It is about making the connection first rather than getting on with the drawings, because if you get the connections right, then people bring the building with them.”
— Russell Brown