Brinkworth Press in Architecture Today

Dinos Chapman’s retreat: Architecture Today

Summer 2010 – London // ‘Many puzzles remain in the work of alteration, as with all works involving translation from one use to another – the cobweb of tension between the new and the existing. One might venture that the assumed affinity between form and function is implicitly denied by the very act of adaptation, but that seems too blunt an assertion; perhaps it is that all such work must assume a mannerism, where meanings are sometimes diverted, inverted, subverted to make a new poetry of the existing. Such is the achievement of the house, reached with intent, subtlety and control.’ – 6 page review written by Professor Fred Scott