This monograph records the significant buildings and projects of Bligh Voller Nield. It is appropriate that the projects are ordered and located by latitude and longitude – by their place in the world. For our architecture regional differences remain significant. Equally significant is the narrative of life and lives in our architecture frames – the people of our projects. The practice’s work is about providing a vantage point, a home or a work space, that is either a celebration of an event or an activity. The buildings and projects are architectural narratives about people. They are about providing a support and background for human activity not an all conquering foreground. The works and projects seek to accommodate rather than to impress. They seek to invoke recognition by sensation.

The architecture of sensation is about the sense of touch, rather than the astonishment of the eye, about languages developed from materials and surfaces. Bligh Voller Nield eschews a house style, their buildings are informed by an alternative tradition of readings of architectural history in sympathy with humanitarian, cultural and, in most serious way, sustainable values. Each building and project a different essay on these themes.

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