John Pawson

John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period in the family textile business he moved to Japan, where he spent several years teaching English at the business university of Nagoya. Towards the end of his time in Japan, he moved to Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese architect and designer Shiro Kuramata. On his return to England, Pawson enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981.

Beginning with the renovation of the London apartment he shared with the art dealer Hester van Royen, the work focused on exploring fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms. Commissions swiftly followed for homes for the writer Bruce Chatwin, opera director Pierre Audi and art collector Doris Lockhart Saatchi, executed in parallel with a number of early art spaces, including Waddington Galleries in London and the PPOW Gallery in New York.

Pawson's subsequent career has spanned a wide variety of projects, from Calvin Klein’s flagship store in Manhattan and airport lounges for Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong to a new Cistercian monastery in Bohemia. In addition to architectural projects, he has designed acollection of domestic objects for the Belgian company 'When Objects Work', a kitchen for Obumex and a range of furniture for Driade.

In 2002 a major exhibition of John Pawson’s work was held at IVAM in Valencia. He was also responsible for the design of the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale, returning to Venice two years later as one of ten architects whose work was showcased in the British Pavilion.

Current projects include a number of private houses around the world, a condominium on Manhattan’s Gramercy Park for Ian Schrager, a residential tower in San Francisco and the Sackler Crossing for Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Work on the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur in Bohemia is ongoing.

Bio - From his home page -

GRANERO TILTY
TILTY BARN
Essex, United Kingdom, 1995

TIENDA JIGSAW
JIGSAW STORE
London, United Kingdom, 1996

CASA PAWSON
PAWSON HOUSE
London, United Kingdom, 1999

SALAS CATHAY PACIFIC
CATHAY PACIFIC LOUNGES
Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong, 1998

CASA WALSH
WALSH HOUSE
Telluride, Colorado, Usa, 2001

Pushpullbar - Page (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348&highlight=pawson)

LA ROSE AMÈRE
LA ROSE AMÈRE
Praslin, Seychelles, 2002

CASA EN ALEMANIA
HOUSE IN GERMANY
Germany, 2003

MONASTERIO DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE NOVY DVUR
MONASTERY OF OUR LADY OF NOVY DVUR
Touzim, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2004

APARTAMENTOS LANSDOWNE
LANSDOWNE APARTMENTS
London, United Kingdom, 2004

CASA TETSUKA
TETSUKA HOUSE
Tokyo, Japan, 2005

CASA BARON
BARON HOUSE
Ystads Kommun, Skåne, Sweden, 2005

VESTÍBULO DEL HOTEL PUERTA DE AMÉRICA
LOBBY, HOTEL PUERTA DE AMÉRICA
Madrid, Spain, 2005

CASA STEGWEE
STEGWEE HOUSE
Castel Viscardo, Umbria, Italy, 2003-

CASA EN LOS ANGELES
HOUSE IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, California, Usa, 2002-

APARTAMENTOS EN 50 GRAMERCY PARK NORTH
50 GRAMERCY PARK NORTH APARTMENTS
New York, Usa, 2005

CENTRO DE POESÍA TED HUGHES
TED HUGHES POETRY CENTRE
Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 2005-

PASARELA SACKLER EN EL REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO DE KEW
THE SACKLER CROSSING, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW
London, United Kingdom, 2005

Home Page (http://www.johnpawson.com/)

Pawson Link (http://www.brazosprojects.org/pawson.htm)

El Croquis (http://www.elcroquis.es/MagazineDetail.aspx?magazinesId=141&lang=en)

Eyestorm (http://www.eyestorm.com/artist/John_Pawson_biography.aspx) - Nice Interior Shots

Archiform (http://www.archinform.net/arch/952.htm?ID=a6EZvjI5UTSrntNm)

Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714842370/102-3365282-3232123?v=glance&n=283155)

I love John's Pawson simplicity. Thanks Jason :)

There are my info about a Monastery Novy Dvur (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314&page=9&pp=10) - PPB2 :)

House in Tokyo (http://www.arplus.com/broch/articles/arsept05pdfs/ARSEPT05pawson.pdf) - plans, photos, info

View renderings of Pawson's interiors and the unit layouts :

50 GRAMERCY PARK NORTH APARTMENTS (http://www.50gramercyparknorth.com/home.html)

Gramercy Park North Hotel - prices (http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/columns/realestate/12060/index.html) :eek: ;)

This Pawson is a magician.

Francesco

This Pawson is a magician.

yes, magician of ligth, of simplicity...I love him!!
PAWSON IS THE BEST :D

Francesco



yes, magician of ligth, of simplicity...I love him!!
PAWSON IS THE BEST :D

...it only looks simple... but it isn't! :D

jep, like Sejima. It's to seamless, to clean tobe simple. eye for detail.

...it only looks simple... but it isn't! :D
and you know what you're talkin' about ... :D :D :D

I love Pawson's MINIMALIZM, but not all:

maximalism (http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/vu/14910/)

Do yuo like it? ;)


MICHEL
...it only looks simple... but it isn't! :D

yes :D I designed fireplace a la Pawson - veeeeeeeeeeery hard work :D

My favorite - I want similar in my new, future house :D :

TETSUKA HOUSE model (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1966&page=1&pp=10) by MICHEL - :not worth

I just stumbled upon this essay by Pawson while googling about him.
It's in Spanish (I think)...

sorry guys,I have some photos from Pawson House (London 1994) with floor plans,where i have to post it?:poke fun:
...if this have some reason...

sorry guys,I have some photos from Pawson House (London 1994) with floor plans,where i have to post it?:poke fun:
...if this have some reason...
Welcome to ppb, korut.
Architecture+Design Bar > Architectural Travel > Europe > United Kingdom (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=53)
is the section you need to post to.
Roughly follow the Posting Requirements (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2749) and you will be fine. Thank you. :cheers:

A few more, less-published Pawson projects.

First, a house in Chester Square, London from 2005 (completion). It's currently for sale.

Article in Daily Telegraph about house / owner http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/10/04/lpyuki104.xml

A few images:

Internal looking towards kitchen

Internal, staircase with light detail

Internal, lower ground kitchen looking into garden

Final one of Chester Square house (there are more photos in the telegraph article). Internal, ground floor living room.

Floorplans (sorry no image editing package here so posting pdf)

A few other rarely-published buildings:

Tarn House (http://www.findaproperty.com/displaystory.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&storyid=3762)

Willheim House (http://www.landscape2go.com/john.htm) (a few construction photos)

few things are more difficult than designing with just a few elements. everything must be almost perfect. a facade with 50 windows is far easier to design than one with 1 or 2. and so on...

Chroma
Royal Opera House, London






In a few words.. its simply perfect!

John Pawson has sent us images of his minimalist set design for the world premiere of Chroma, a one-act ballet presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in November.

Pawson’s stage design consisted of a simple, articulated white backdrop with an illuminated rectangular void set into it.

Pawson describes the project as “a design for the stage which uses the architectural motifs of inside and outside, entrance and exit, light and shadow, void and plenitude to create a spatially charged environment, which is explored through the medium of the dancers’ bodies.”

The Sackler Crossing wins the special projects category
at this year's Lighting Design Awards....

www.lightingawards.com/specialprojects2007.asp

I am interested to know the mounting details of the The Sackler Crossing. How the effect was created, would any kind souls share this knowledge?

Audi House
Pierre Audi (Opera Director)
Tuscany, Italy
Scheduled completion 2008

The second phase of work in Montemaggio concentrates on the monastery, the centrepiece of the project. The scheme pares away an accumulation of later additions to leave the central core - essentially a single volume with a stair connecting each floor. The interior renovation is based on a vernacular palette of plaster walls and exposed chestnut ceiling timbers, with Florentine pietra serena used for floors, fireplaces and general construction purposes and Roman travertine for basins, tubs, benches and work surfaces.

:not worth

B60 sloop

Luca Brenta Yacht Design

http://www.johnpawson.com/architecture/b60/images/

I am interested to know the mounting details of the The Sackler Crossing. How the effect was created, would any kind souls share this knowledge?

I don't know the exact detail but I heard there was one LED's pushed flat against the edge of each plank of glass (I don't know for sure).

The con in my opinion is that Kew Gardens closes at 5pm (4pm in Winter) and therefore no-one is there to see the bridge at night!

CASA EN ALEMANIA
HOUSE IN GERMANY
Germany, 2003

Does someone know where this house in Germany excactly was build?
I'm writing a paper about Pawson and i'd like to give complete information..

This house is presented into the El Croquis n° 127.Your University bookshelves certainly have it somewhere :
http://www.elcroquis.es/MagazineDetail.aspx?magazinesId=141&lang=en

The El Crouquis also has diagrams of the lighting on the bridge. If you're looking for one book on Pawson it's probably the one to get.