It's said often enough that architects need to get out of their professional ghetto, collabo-rate with other professions and trades, be less concerned with look-at-me buildings and more with the public realm, do solid research, hit the streets and talk to real people more. It's hard to disagree, especially when you are talking to one of the now firmly established practices which does all these things. Here they are, and they are called We Made That. Holly Lewis and Oliver Goodhall started working together in 2006. Unusually, they set up on their own while at architecture school - the Bartlett - having won their first compe-tition while still Part 1 students. An interna-tional competition in fact, for a tiny building: a beach hut at Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire, one of a series by various architects. Their resulting 'A hut for gazing and canoodling' - black bituminous fibreboard outside, pink stencil patterns inside, high-level corner doors swinging open to take in the view-might have suggested a future as buildings architects, quite possibly as designers of imaginative one-off houses of the postmod-ernism-revival variety.
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