We are very pleased to announce that the next TAG Talk will be by Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor.

On Thursday, 2nd November 2023 Timothy and Jonathan presented their talk called:

Losing Streak: the Competition and Architectural Exploration

Smith and Taylor are interested in the potential of classicism as a living language of architecture. The talk will describe their pursuit of new ideas with a particular focus on their submissions to architectural competitions, the translation of precedent, and their teaching research.

Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor are practitioners, educators and researchers operating in the field of classical and traditional architecture. They established their London-based practice in 2010 and in 2011 at Kingston School of Art, set up the first classical design course in a RIBA accredited school for over 80 years and the only one, as far as they know, in a European school of architecture.

Current projects include a new build artist’s studio and art gallery in Camden, the refurbishment and extension of two London houses and new build housing in London, Essex and Cambridgeshire.

In Spring 2021 they were William H. Harrison guest critics in classical architecture at the University of Miami, they and have been Visiting Scholars at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC since Spring 2022.

Last year they were awarded the ICAA Arthur Ross Award for Education in New York City and in 2021 they received a Traditional Architecture Group Achievement Award in recognition of their ten years of classical design education. After plaudits for their teaching they were thrilled to receive a TAG Award for one of their buildings in 2022.

The recording of this talk can be viewed here.