An architecture practice working on houses and small public buildings. Van Doesburg argued that a plane is the only honest element, because it is what a wall actually is. The identity divides every sheet the way the practice divides a site, and never on a diagonal.
The name set tight with a single red plane closing it. The plane is a cell of the grid, not an ornament, and it is always the last element on the line.
Primary lockup with a division panel
Rules of two weights divide the sheet into cells, no two sharing a proportion, and exactly three cells take colour. Press the button and the sheet is divided again.
Three primaries, black and white. The primaries are not decorative and not brand colours in the ordinary sense. Each one marks a cell, and a cell is a decision about space.
#C8102EThe largest coloured cell on any sheet. Also the plane in the mark.#0B3C8CThe second cell, always smaller than the red.#F2C300The third and smallest. Frequently a sliver.#14120FEvery rule and all type. It is a structure, not a colour.#FFFFFFEvery uncoloured cell. It is the most common element by area and is never called blank.One grotesque, two weights, and everything ranged left inside its cell. Type never crosses a rule, which means a cell is either large enough for the text or the division was wrong.
Every item is a division of its own sheet. The letterhead, the drawing title block and the hoarding are the same system at three sizes, not three designs.
Project sheet
Project sheet, A4 landscape
Site hoarding, 6 × 2.4 m
Drawing title block
Houses, a village hall and a swimming pond changing room. Everything we have finished, in the order we finished it.
See the workWebsite
Dear Mrs Vance,
Thank you for the drawings. We have looked at the boundary and we think the plot will
take the plan you want if the stair moves to the north wall. That has consequences
for the roof, which we should talk about before you commit to anything.
14 Elm RowRegistered 08114
Letterhead, A4
Each of these looks like a small improvement and each removes the one property that makes the sheets look like one practice rather than one template.