Craft within the Built Environment

Specialist skills and techniques, enhanced design concepts, groundbreaking ideas: contemporary craft practitioners offer all these for building fabrication, environmental installations and public spaces.

To many, the idea of craft within the built environment may suggest such traditional building techniques as thatching, carpentry and the hand-made brick. However, contemporary craft offers much much more. Makers understand good design, materials and the skills needed to fabricate, and grasp the impact of the human touch on our environment.

With an enormous variety of specialist knowledge, crafts practitioners offer whole range of expertise to architects, landscape designers and public art planners. They offer technical knowledge, modes of thinking and the creative use of materials to enhance projects, with results that will be at once practical and beautiful.

Here we show you ways craft is making a difference to our built environment.