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Left The Orange Cottage, completed in 2007, with its landscaped gardens


Below left A view of the exterior patio area of The Hidden House, completed in 2021


Below right Soane’s Rathbone Market design in Canning Town was completed in 2017


really do your homework, which we are doing.’ Soane also talks to me about collaboration


across the built environment and the importance of working together across the disciplines. For the last seven years or so, he’s been involved in the London School of Architecture, teaching history and theory. He wanted to challenge postgraduate education, opting to talk about planet politics and people, before about architecture, and highlighting how the climate emergency is central to everything.


‘But also discussing the identity and ideology behind what is an architect and what is a designer,’ he adds. ‘A lot of this is very moulded into, I would say, patriarchal or, dare I


say it, a colonial view. Not that it is always at the foreground, but it’s what’s created the image and I think trying to move away from that and [highlight the need for] group work. One of the things we’re able to do is get students to work in groups and be marked for it, which sounds easy, but at a systems level, it’s quite hard.’


Soane helped create a network of practices, where students work three days a week in an architecture practice for a year and, in return, the practice pays for their two years fees as a sort of ‘earn and learn’. But, more than that, the dialogue starts to go two ways. Students write a practice manual, a ‘How Does It Work?’ of architecture, detailing everything


from finance to marketing. And, by working at the forefront of an architecture practice and education, Soane has positioned himself to kick-start this evolutional overhaul of the design, building and architecture system. Perhaps ‘revolution’ is a more appropriate word. The ‘big idea’, as put by Soane, is other architecture practices will start to read these manuals, getting involved in the conversations, and even evolving their practices. ‘In other words, it’s quite an interesting


and [is] a very powerful feedback loop that’s not just coming in, teach and go away,’ says Soane. ‘It’s about working together, evolving and change.’


TOP: GARETH GARDNER BELOW LEFT: PAUL DIXON BELOW RIGHT: JACK HOBHOUSE


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