Field Notes

Short dispatches recorded live from studio visits and site walks.

10 Episodes

Episode 10

The Glassblowers' Bench

A studio making lighting glass by hand, recorded across one gather, one blow and one failure.

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Episode 9

Hot metal type still cast to order, one sort at a time, in a workshop with nine machines and two staff.

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Episode 8

A limestone quarry at dawn, with the quarry master choosing which bed to cut for a library facade.

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Episode 7

Sixty years of architectural models in a climate-controlled basement, and the two people who keep them standing.

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Episode 6

A fascia painted by hand between closing time and opening time, on a ladder on a high street.

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Episode 5

Forty minutes in a bronze foundry on the morning of a pour, recorded between the furnace and the sand moulds.

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Episode 4

A walk up fourteen storeys of cross-laminated timber with the site manager, two weeks before the cladding went on.

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The decisions nobody sees, told by the people who made them.

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Studio founders answer the questions younger designers are afraid to ask.

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Round-table conversations recorded live at design week events.

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