Aberrant Architecture

Aberrant Architecture is a multi-disciplinary studio and think-tank that operates internationally in the fields of architecture, art, design and cultural analysis. From our studio in London, we strive to capture the best of the past and the contemporary in order to shape the future of the designed world.

We have established a reputation for our playful, provocative and interactive projects that use architecture and design to introduce new and unexpected ways of experiencing the world, winning D&AD and Design Week awards for our work in 2012, 2013 & 2016, as well as a Dulux ‘Let’s Colour’ Award in 2015.

We produce interventions in public space, buildings and interiors, public art, furniture, books, graphics, events, installations and exhibitions. We regularly collaborate with community groups as well as other design professionals and place people at the heart of everything we design.

Operating simultaneously as a think-tank, we identify, question and research relevant issues in contemporary society in order to look beyond ‘building a building’ and to establish ourselves as problem solvers as well as designers. In 2010 we were inaugural architecture residents at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) investigating the history live-work spaces in London, and in the same year we co-founded The Gopher Hole, a gallery/venue in London, which through a public exhibition and talks programme provides a platform for critical debate on the arts and society. In 2012 we were selected to exhibit in the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, where we focused on innovative school design in Brazil.

Forthcoming projects include: Wherever You Find People – the radical schools of Leonel Brizola, Darcy Ribeiro and Oscar Niemeyer’, an illustrated and internationally authored publication on the ambitious school designs of legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (Park Books, Spring 2017).

Past projects include: Creation from Catastrophe (exhibition design) at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London; ‘Swansea Civic Stage’ a permanent artwork introduced to the busy public realm of Swansea city centre; ‘The Small Coal Man’s Tiny Travelling Theatre’ a mobile theatre which toured the streets of London during Clerkenwell Design Week (2012); ‘Devil Amongst the Tailors’ a rethink of the British pub table for the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition at the Milan Furniture Fair (2012); ‘The Social Playground’, a giant interactive landscape, built in collaboration with local community groups for the ‘Knowledge Lives Everywhere’ exhibition at FACT, Liverpool (2011) and The Gopher Hole, a small exhibition venue, project space and performance area, in the Shoreditch area of east London (2010).