PRP ARCHITECTS: PLACE & HOME. THE SEARCH FOR BETTER PUBLISHING

Place & Home explores the full scope of PRP’s important and innovative work - from the firm’s first major commission, The Ryde at Hatfield (which won a Housing Design Historic Award in 2006), and their particular involvement in the post-war rebuilding of Britain - right up to their most recent projects, including the recent redevelopment of the St Matthews Estate in Brixton, London.
Essays by founders Phippen, Randall and Parkes, as well as the firm’s current Chairman Barry Munday and Managing Director Chris Rudolf, consider PRP’s work in detail, charting the firm’s evolution and contemplating the future of housing. In addition, texts on the topics of ‘Place’, ‘Home’ and ‘Building’ by Peter Stewart, Jeremy Melvin and Stephen Mullin respectively, contextualise the practice’s work whilst investigating issues and projects spanning the whole range of twentieth century housing. These are interspersed with illustrated case studies of PRP’s work with housing associations, local authorities and private developers