- An extensive and engaging study of award-winning architect Peter
Salter's first ever residential project - Features specially
commissioned photographs by Hélène Binet- Book design by Archigram
founder member Dennis CromptonWalmer Yard, in London, is the first
residential building in Britain designed by architect Peter Salter. The
culmination of ten years of planning, the project makes physical the
ideas and forms that Salter has developed over the last three decades.
Although modest in scale, the project is extraordinary in many ways. On
an irregularly shaped site, Salter s design brings four houses into a
complex relationship with each other, half-formal, half-familiar,
interdependent yet solitary. Similarly, the relations among the core
team who developed the design are more nuanced than in most
architectural projects, since they all met at the Architectural
Association in Peter Salter s unit, where Crispin Kelly (the client) and
Fenella Collingridge (Peter s current collaborator) were student
contemporaries. This book documents the project with Peter Salter s
original pen-and-ink drawings and Hélène Binet s extraordinary
photographs.
