Marsh Court

We see design as an evidence-based practice, where arguments for change on sites with significant design heritage need to be persuasively framed and robustly supported. Our interventions at Philip Johnson’s Beck House extend and reinterpret Johnson’s original design intentions over a greater landscape. At Marsh Court, a masterful collaboration of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, we are correcting disruptive alterations made by later generations. Both cases reflect a critical conservation ethic: our design approach guides us toward decisions that promote responsible cultural patrimony through discursive, discerning interventions. At the same time, these projects informatively advance our own language of design expression.