Piers Taylor

Piers Taylor studied in Sydney under the Pritzker Prize winning architect Glenn Murcutt and at the Architecture Association in London. He is the founding partner of Bath based architects Mitchell Taylor Workshop. He built the practice on the back of building his own highly sustainable house, Moonshine, which has no car access.

The house was designed as a series of lightweight components that had to be carried by hand 500 metres along a woodland track. Moonshine was short-listed for 7 national awards, has been featured in approximately 30 national and international publications, and has been described by the 20th society as the most important modern house in the region. Venue magazine said: "A house that tells us so much about the power of great design... An example of what is possible with a dream and a very skilled architect." Mitchell Taylor Workshop also won a number of RIBA design and sustainability awards for 'Room 13', the first purpose built art studio for a programme that Nicholas Serota called 'the most important model we have for artistic teaching in the UK' in the most deprived community in the South West.

Piers is a teaching fellow in the Department of Architecture at the University of Bath, and an Isaac Newton Design Teaching Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He founded the annual 'Studio in the Woods' where students design and construct site specific installations designed to reveal an aspect of 'place' alongside some of the most interesting and lauded architects in the country: Ted Cullinan, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Gianni Botsford Architects, Mole Architects and Erect Architecture.

 

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