Price & Myers’ Post

I can trace my journey into structural engineering via the Pyrmide du Louvre. It was a key signpost for me, that caught my attention during the summer of 1991. I was almost 17. It was at the tail end of being built and I was in Paris, being immersed in the language for my upcoming French A Level. A fascination of wondering how this huge transparent thing was held up by tiny steel rods sort of tied up the ‘what shall I do at university?’ question. So to be asked 33 years later to exhibit our work in the British Ambassador’s residence down the road from the pyramid made this a special week. Especially considering the company we were in. Some of the UK’s best architecture and engineering practices. It’s a privilege to exhibit work anywhere, let alone on behalf of the government in such surroundings and amongst your peers. Thanks for the team at the British embassy in Paris for organising it and to Katherine Chimenes and Alessandro Milani for all the detailed work they put into organising our end of it. We made strucural OSB plinths with BlokBuild and also to David Kohn for sharing the stand with us and being great company over the two days. It’s been a crazy week from packing the van with models on Monday night at the office, a 4am dash to the Channel Tunnel, Katherine and I lugging plinths through the residence and to writing this now as I am waiting to go back under the English Channel with some new people met and old friends caught up with. We’ve made exhibitions of engineering since 2005 and we always get completely into doing it ourselves. They feel like opportunities to reflect on why we do what we do and how we do the exhibitions - making them ourselves with our gloves on and drills out reflects how we think and work. We can’t help building them ourselves. We want to understand and make and build every bit.