Moving Architecture
www.movingarchitecture.com
Ed Frith (Architect), Caroline Salem (Choreographer)

Moving Architecture places the moving body at the centre of the design process. This combines with a commitment to delve deeply into the specific history and culture of both site and client. Our designs seek to create a distinctive grain and structure which supports the movement of the lives embedded within the project. Rigour and delicacy in detail, combines with transformable spaces. A dialogue between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’, with skins that blend with the environment of the building, draw the movement of light, air and landscape into a dynamic weave that invites cradles and provokes people who live, work or just pass through their buildings.

Projects undertaken have been from house and residential projects to historic buildings, arts, health and education work. Moving walls, light games: bespoke architectural and one off designs are designed and crafted often using local Clarence Mews and Hackney trades and crafts-people. Our own house and dance studio and office, a laboratory for our work, is on Clarence Mews and is an example of this, it has been widely published.

Moving Architecture curates and produces a yearly performance event ‘Inside Outside’ in which choreographers and performance makers, visual artists and architects create site-specific work within the private space of number 40 and the public space of Clarence Mews.

Year round Caroline Salem offers support for independent performance makers through a range of programmes known as Space@Clarence Mews.