Invisible Studio

Invisible Studio is an innovative and award winning architectural practice founded by Piers Taylor. Taylor is a Chartered Architect, a former Studio Master at the Architectural Association, Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a founding director at Mitchell Taylor Workshop. Invisible Studio aims to be a different organisation from a conventional practice. They operate through collaboration, experimentation, research and education. They work internationally and very locally, in a variety of fields and at a variety of scales. They operate from a self built studio, located in a woodland which they also manage as an ongoing forest enterprise.

With each project, they aim to realise something extraordinary. They are interested in going about the process of architecture in a different way – a way where clients, users, collaborators and makers are all part of the process of design. More than anything, they are interested in making unusual, delightful and intelligent buildings and environments that are thorough, considered and exceptional. Their work encompasses a number of seminal buildings from ecologically sensitive self builds through to schools, public buildings and large scale urban environments, which have won a plethora of awards and been published widely and internationally. Their work aims to push boundaries from material research through to wider environmental concerns. They aim to tackle issues of climate change from first principles, where big issues are addressed head on. In terms of technology, they prefer to use passive principles to aid building performance, and use these principles to define the premise of a building.

They believe passionately that design is not a luxury add on, but a process by which the most is extracted from the least through intelligent and clever thinking. They have a particular expertise with timber, and have close relationships with the UK’s leading timber engineers and fabricators. Invisible Studio aims to set the standard for a new type of progressive architectural practice – a practice bound together by a shared experimental ethos, a creative organisation agile enough to reinvent itself as necessary, and a practice fearless in challenging preconceptions and making a difference.