15 Facts About Piers Taylor

Piers Taylor's work has received awards from the Architects' Journal and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Piers Taylor started in graphic design but changed to architecture after attending lectures by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, who would become an inspiration for Taylor's career.

Piers Taylor was a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, later commenting about his experience with the toxic culture at the school, and mentioned walking out from a review panel with Simon Allford.

Since 2017, Piers Taylor is pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Reading, with research in alternative design processes that incorporate making, under the supervision of Flora Samuel.

Piers Taylor collaborated with Samuel in the 2021 Homes of the Future report for Vodafone, which predicts technological features such as home drones, the elimination of light switches, smart heating, and pet-caring robots.

Piers Taylor decided to break with the prevailing corporate culture of mainstream architectural practices and conventional designs, sending an email to his contacts which talked about a studio "which is a provocative and polemical vehicle for collaboration, experimentation, research and education".

Piers Taylor was awarded the AJ's Small Projects 2009 prize for his own family home and studio, located in the woodland near Bath.

Piers Taylor has since renovated the house for improved robustness and energy efficiency, 18 years after first building it.

Piers Taylor replaced floors, walls, windows and roof with upgraded materials, and added cladding and insulation to achieve passive house standards.

Piers Taylor continues to lead hands-on educational projects for architecture students such as the annual "Studio in the Woods".

Piers Taylor was a speaker at the TEDx Beechen Cliff School in 2017, with a talk on architecture, and the TEDxBath 2018, with a talk on radical making.

In 2020 Piers Taylor was featured in the first episode of the documentary series Practice, created by architecture critic and curator Laura Mark and photographer and filmmaker Jim Stephenson.

Piers Taylor is known for stripped-back, innovative, cost and resource-effective designs which avoid extraneous elements to focus on light and space.

Piers Taylor's practice is interested in environmental impact of their designs, focusing on the long-term carbon footprint.

Piers Taylor was influenced by his years in Australia during the early stages of his careers, and by the three Australian architects Glenn Murcutt, Peter Stutchbury and Richard Leplastrier.