Over the past few months I (Jordan) have been conspiring and collaborating with the brilliantly talented Alain de Botton on his new literately project. Un-fortunately I really can’t go into too much detail about this project because it’s top secret but I can say it’s been a rather top notch experience.
It’s a challenging project but the subject matter has been fascinating and inspiring.

I have included some images below that did not make the final cut – but hopefully they give a little [cryptic] taster of what’s to come….

The ‘Workhouse of the Infrastructural [Counter] Reformation‘ project was exhibited in 2009 during London Design week and has also now been published in this amazing book (no bias obviously) called Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands.

“‘Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands’ is a collection of the latest, provocative projects from the field of digitally-enabled architecture. Oscillating between the analog and the digital, from concept to realisation this is a book that maps process.

The book covers a spectrum of London’s leading graduates and young practices, featuring projects from the Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), University of Westminster and Royal College of Art, and case studies and interviews with architects including Amanda Levete Architects, Plasma Studio, JDS Architects, sixteen* (makers), Horhizon, marcosandmarjan, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Philip Beesley, David Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Usman Haque and Neil Spiller”

The book was co-authored by Ruairi Glynn and  Sara Shafiei and designed by Emily Chicken.

Some other work to watch out for in the book is Adam Nathaniel Furman project “The Church of Perpetual Experimentation”. To say we love it would be an understatement.

Get yourself a copy here.

A big gracias from House of Jonn to everyone that helped us out with pre-production for our project at Selfridges x x

Curated by Eszter Steierhoffer & Levente Polyak. House of Jonn was invited to contribute to the project. A map and audio guide was produced and made available during the London festival of Architecture to navigate through the exhibition that unfolds along Church Street in the shop windows and market stall, and includes photography, film, urban interventions as well as performances by artists, activists and architects: Albert Ádám, Gabó Bartha, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, EmÅ‘ke Kerekes & Anna Mózes, Péter Rákosi, Allan Siegel, Miklós Surányi, Szövetség39 (Anna Baróthy & Csenge Kolozsvári) and screenings by no.w.here in collaboration with The Edgware Road Project – Free Cinema School of the Serpentine Gallery.

So its all over…

So this project was an epic experience from start to finish and we would like to throw out a big thanks to all the members of the public and Hospital club members that helped make this project happen with your contributions of pictures and stories. THANK YOU!

So here are a couple of picture of the project in a variety of stages. :]

Holla all!

If you don’t already know, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones… we’ve got everyone else already lending a hand.

But we wouldn’t want to keep you in the dark… oh no. Not when it’s just a matter of days now til Jordan and Niall decamp temporarily from the Hospital Club and set up office with aberrant architecture under the full glare of Oxford Street. Ah yes!

The story is this: we’re Architecture Residents here at the Hospital, aberrant are Architecture Residents over at the V&A. Now we’re teaming together to stage a joint two-week ‘pop-up residency’ in Selfridges’ famous Wonder Room Windows.

From 9.30am on 16th June we’ll be transforming our temporary home there from a blank retail canvas to a sprawling cityscape installation. Day by day and brick by brick, the growth of the city will be visible to the masses coming and going outside.

Fellow Creatives in Residence Alex Shepherd (Visual Arts 2010), Simon Burrill (Film 2009) and Destiny Ekaragha (Film 2010) have joined the project too. Alex and Simon will be showing new work alongside and amidst our Selfridges city, while Destiny is going rogue to shoot ‘behind the scenes’. Now all we need is… you.

This city will be built from things you tell us about your own personal London – diverse, perverse, love it or loathe it, private or otherwise – anything goes. Please click here and take a minute to send us a picture, a word or an idea that tells us something about what London means to you. Then the HOJO/aberrant residency tagteam will magic it into our alternative model city.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Oh and drop by anytime from 16th June to stare and point at us, live at work in the window. We look forward to seeing you. x

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Please note: all visual material you send us must be your own original work. If a recognisable person is included in any video or photograph you send us, you must ensure that you have the signed consent of that person for that material to be exhibited in public. In the event of a complaint you will be required to produce a copy of that signed consent.