Our journal
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A summary of Old School House's publications and awards, including a prestigious RIBA Award and Winner at the British Home Awards 2024
We are delighted to have won a William Stansell award for our Autobarn in Nunney, Somerset
Our refurbishment of a house in Chelsea launched Summer 2023, in Dezeen, Enki and other publications
This journal post describes our research into creating architecture that is simultaneously beautiful, affordable and sustainable.
This journal post follows the story of our big brass doors, from the development of an idea, to their completion in a wintery Somerset barn and finally their installation under a relentless Bajan sun.
We have been awarded planning permission for Upbrook House, in the Wiltshire countryside, under the onerous ‘Paragraph 79 clause’ of the National Planning Policy Framework.
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome." John Ruskin
We venerate old buildings not just for their quality, but for the history of their life and of those that have inhabited them, etched upon their fabric.
We belief that the constraint of a low budget necessitates a different kind of creativity that often leads to unexpected and truly innovative architecture.