Jordan Hodgson and Niall Gallacher work with architecture and the built environment and are co-founders of House of Jonn, a studio for creative engagement with the city. They studied Architecture at Leeds and Cambridge respectively then together at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. Recent work includes a two-week live residency at Selfridges, design for a production of Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in a Russian gulag and construction of a new Shoreditch club and event space.
####RA Bricks####
The brick series was House of Jonn reaction to the ‘RAW’ theme imposed by the Royal Academy of Arts for this years summer exhibition.
We were rejected….
Without sounding like whinny losers this was the reaction we were expecting and in a way played up to. The architecture room was co-ordinated by David ‘vitality, risk taking and a necessary sense of adventure’ Chipperfield.
We could not help but prod a little fun at ourselves and the theme by creating 4 very impractical and improbable brick types to live upto the RAW theme.
These included the  acrylic Banana brick, Cock Arch brick, Wizard of Oz brick and the Recession proof brick. All were produced as editions of 25.
The above images show the Wizard of Oz brick depicting a scene from the story of Dorothy and Toto on the yellow Brick road.
Above is the Banana Brick and below is the Icon Brick.
