The Work
Experience visual tranquillity.
We live in an age of constant noise — not just sound, but an endless stream of sights, data and demands on our time and attention. The pressure to consume and respond never seems to pause.
Our architecture seeks to be the opposite of that. An antidote to overload. A transition from chaos to calm. We design spaces that are serene, precise, and layered with quiet poetic depth.
Minimalism in architecture has a long and rich tradition, one we are proud to continue. Yet our work is equally rooted in the visual arts — informed as much by Richard Serra, Donald Judd, and James Turrell as by the Cistercians, the Shakers, and the Georgians.
We aim for a point of balance between art, architecture, and nature. Line, plane, and mass are composed to guide the eye and the body — moving from enclosure to release, opening to framed views of sky or greenery. Light is our final material, used with painterly control: sunlight and daylight shifting across surfaces, art light punctuating moments of focus.
Gavin Jackson
Gavin Jackson was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1960.
A childhood fascination with art, geometry, and the built environment led him, at eight years old, to discover Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright and The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe — two moments that would quietly set the course for a life in architecture.
Leaving school at 16, Gavin studied construction at the Hull School of Architecture, working directly with materials — wood, stone, brick, concrete, copper, and lead — while learning surveying, engineering, and building contracts. These formative years grounded his later design work in a deep understanding of how buildings are made and how materials behave.
Seven years of architectural study in Oxford — a city where modernity and medieval history coexist — sharpened his instinct for clarity and simplification. This pursuit of essential form would become the central thread of his career.
In London, Gavin worked alongside Norman Foster, Claudio Silvestrin, and John Pawson. Whether designing fashion retail spaces for Nicole Farhi, Jigsaw, Calvin Klein, and Armani; art galleries and installations for Victoria Miro and the Hayward Gallery; or private residences across Europe, the goal was always the same: spaces of clarity, restraint, and calm.
Gavin established his own practice in 1997. With decades of experience navigating planning processes, the studio maintains a 95% approval success rate. Today, in addition to practice, Gavin serves as Vice Chair of Planning on Henley Town Council — continuing his commitment to shaping environments with thought, precision, and care.
