Like his employer, this member of Foster’s staff is fascinated by timelessness. Through laser cutting different types of paper and constructing them as 2.5 dimensional architectural drawings, ‘I discovered I could communicate ideas about space, aesthetics and materiality much clearer. A line that is burned by the laser is soft yet very precise; it is aged yet very high-tech’.
So far, so Fosterian. But Ben Cowd is no derivative groupie. Working with fellow Bartlett student Sara Shafiei, the pair staged 'Saraben', an exhibition at the Dreamspace gallery which explored the marriage of Baroque influences with 21st-century technology, and won deserved praise.
These days, it’s the cosmos that’s getting his creative juices flowing: ‘Recently my inspiration has come from mysticism but that was provoked by a sketch I did of a small folly in Northamptonshire,' he says. 'It's not a linear process.’
Would most like to work with:
'Borromini, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kahn, Da Vinci.'
INFORMATION
School
Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Graduated
2007
- Website
- http://saraben-studio.com
