Takuro Kuwata

Featured image: Tea Bowl 2013 - Takuro Kuwata - photo by Kenji Takahash courtesy of Kosaku Kanechika (Phaidon, 2017) The principles of critical regionalism and tectonics that I've been exploring over the last few months are visible in ceramic practice, one example is Takuro Kuwata who uses traditional Japanese materials and skills in a contemporary way …

Reflection on the research so far

Featured image, J Affleck, Mind map sketch, Procreate IPad Pro, 8/10/2017 Trying to tie the threads together I felt the need to try to tie the four research tasks together into one document. In doing so there are a lot of blanks to fill in, and ideas that I need to write down. Research Aims …

Reflection on critical regionalism

I have been immersed over the last few weeks thinking about the theoretical framework to underpin my studio work. We had to write about a theory relating to our frameworks we are developing, I chose Critical Regionalism. As my background is in architecture, my thoughts often go primarily to architectural theory, which I think has …