For over 8 years, the BLACK & WHITE practice has maintained a passion for the idea of buildings 'completing' environments. The process of studying closely what already exists in context, and of exploring ways to enrich and invigorate, leads to diverse solutions rather than to a particular style or idiom.
Architecture is also a social art. Modernism and its reactionary movements, such as post-modernism and deconstructivism, placed undue emphasis upon the visual in architecture rather than the experiential. This characteristic has been exacerbated by the rise of magazine culture and now internet culture. We are more interested in how buildings and places are inhabited and experienced, and ...