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The website of Mr Rowan Sloss. Bienvenue.
WHO ME
Rowan Sloss BSc DipArch is an RIBA Part II architect. My Part I studies were at the Welsh School, Cardiff, and I completed Part II at Westminster University. I currently live and work in London.
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This website is an online portfolio. However, an abridged .pdf portfolio is available here.
SEPTEMBER 2011
CONTEXT Exhibition
I've been selected as part of a national showcase of exceptional drawings across schools of architecture for my PARADISE work. The exhibition starts in London at the Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane, London E17 7HA and runs from the 26th September to the 1st October. The Context website is here.
JULY 2011
Author Finishes College, Garners Prize
I've been awarded Blueprint Magazine's annual 'Best In Show' award for my Part II work at Westminster. Blueprint's shortlist is here.
... It's a really simple conceit: the lower half of the drawing has a corner of Herculaneum up to the wall formed by the archaeological cut at the ancient coast; above it, the Castello Aragonese's tufa is hollowed out to form the church by Vignola. The two halves of the drawing share a scale and a ground datum - the latter important at Ischia to see quite how high the Castello's rock is, and at Herculaneum to show how much the sea level has changed since 79AD ...
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PARADISE
Westminster DS12 design projectPARADISE is the European Brain Council's first purpose-built facility for the promotion of the brain sciences ...
NAPOLI 2009/10
Westminster DS12 design projectSpanning eight months, the portfolio Napoli 2010 is composed of analytical research pieces which culminate in a simple-sounding question: how do you approach a dead city two thousand years old?
THE TWO ROSSIS
WSA essayA short speculation on a psychological rift between two major phases in Aldo Rossi's writing and work
