Small Scale, Big Ideas

What if the most radical ideas in architecture aren't coming from skyscrapers or landmark cultural buildings, but from homes? Small Scale, Big Ideas — an exhibition bringing together twelve architectural and engineering practices who are treating the domestic as a site of radical experimentation.

The exhibition reveals how architects and engineers are rethinking the home as a laboratory for social, material and environmental change. At a moment of housing crisis, climate urgency and shrinking public space, the practices in this exhibition are asking the questions that matter most. What should we build with? Who gets to participate in making the places we live? And what do we owe each other as neighbours, citizens and communities sharing a city? The answers are not hypothetical. Come and handle a brick made from excavated earth. Peer through a glass louvre engineered for privacy. Hold a timber block that is, quite literally, the building block of an entire house. Across the exhibition you will find 1:1 scale mock-ups, tactile material samples, process films and models at every scale — evidence of ideas that are built, tested and inhabited.