REGISTER - PRICEGORE

In this episode Matt Wells interviews Dingle Price and Alex Gore of Pricegore Architects. Their practice, now in its fifth year, is among the more compelling recent arrivals in the UK. Much of the work of a young practice inevitably involves situations rife with uncertainty, contingency and the need to use minimal means. In this context it is remarkable that the core concerns of the practice are already so clearly and consistently established and interrogated. In common with many of their peers Pricegore are invested in a culture of continuity and historically sited work, but with their own particular take, based on a shared education incorporating architecture, furniture and landscape design. In their work discrete elements such as Roof, Window, Wall, Stairs etc are considered both singularly and as a society of elements which make a building. There is a care taken in how each might possess a characterful fragmentary stance, and yet sit as ease in the complex whole that is the finished work. Put simply the primary scale of their enquiry is directed not with typology (as in building arrangement and form) but with archetype. This emphasis on the intimate over the urban does not preclude an interest in scale or public facing work, but rather situates these concerns in the context of our fragmented age. http://pricegore.co.uk --------- Credits: Register is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London http://kingstonarchitecture.london Head of Department: Mary Johnson Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy Interviewer: Matt Wells Editor: Andrew Clancy