ItalianoArchitecture Today has published a conversation with us as part of Reinventing Practice, its series on how architects work today. Nelly Greig asked about the studio, about the way our English and Italian sides meet in the work, and about what regenerative design looks like on an ordinary working day.
We talk about the studio as a place built for concentration; about English rigour — detailing, tolerances, sequencing — meeting the Italian habit of carrying a building on rather than pulling it down; and about the regenerative as “a way of living and thinking, not a chapter at the end of the report”. There is a passage on honest materials, and one on the Lucchesia, the countryside around Lucca, where farmhouses sit into the hillside rather than on top of it and everything was built from what lay within a few kilometres.
You can read the full piece here: Pardini Hall on Architecture Today
The photographs from the Reinventing Practice series will be shown at Regenerative Design 2026, a month-long programme of exhibitions and events at the Building Centre throughout October 2026.
Thank you to Nelly Greig and the Architecture Today team.