Piers Taylor quits Mitchell Taylor Workshop

Piers Taylor has announced his split from Mitchell Taylor Workshop, six years after co-founding the practice.

Taylor, who is currently in Australia, has set up Invisible Studio which he hopes will be “a creative organization that can be agile enough to morph, change, disband”.

In a statement Taylor added: “My vision isn’t an office with flat screen monitors and associates and directors and buzzy rhetoric about itself and timesheets and working hours and a logo and a corporate identity and a letterhead and chartered RIBA membership a website with Practice Profile Projects.

“Instead, it is a studio that is beholden to no one, which is based everywhere and nowhere, which is a provocative and polemical vehicle for collaboration, experimentation, research and education, which works internationally and very locally, which collaborates with mathematicians, magicians, writers, carpenters, digital fabricators, boat builders and bicycle framers who can come and go and drop in and out; which recognizes the importance of raising children, of downing tools in summertime when the weather’s good, and doesn’t try to squeeze itself into the tiny and narrow confines of a pre-qualification questionnaire.”