AA Tutors Pereen d’Avoine and Pierre d’Avoine to deliver talks at Building Centre exhibition

Russian For Fish, the architecture practice co-directed by AA tutor Pereen d’Avoine has contributed to an upcoming exhibition at the Building Centre in London. Titled Small Scales, Big Ideas, the exhibition explores what architecture can achieve when scale is a discipline rather than a constraint. It brings together 14 practices whose work centres on the home, exploring how intelligence, care and conviction at a small scale can produce ideas with an outsized impact. The exhibition presents built work, models, drawings and installations across three interlocking themes: process and making, material and detail, and the social life of the home. Together, Small Scales, Big Ideas examines the way in which some of the most consequential architectural thinking of today is taking place not in large practices or on major commissions, but in the grain of a back land development, a retrofitted terrace or a carefully detailed wall. The exhibition opens 5 May in the Main Gallery at the Building Centre.

As part of a programme of talks to coincide with the exhibition, AA tutor Pierre d’Avoine will deliver a talk titled ‘The House that Bond Built – Peter Bond and the Wates House at CAT’ on Wednesday 6 May at 1pm. Pereen will also deliver a talk with Russian For Fish co-director Nilesh Shah, titled ‘Live. Work. Live-Work’, on Wednesday 27 May at 1pm. 

Find out more about the exhibition and the talks programme here