houses

Peter Aldington is a British architect whose Modernist houses subtly uplift, rather than negate, the villages in which they are situated.


It is a difficult quality to quantify, and I was most positively reassured when Jamie came across books on Aldington's work at Mark and Martina's house. He looked at the pictures and plans for ages and proclaimed, "these are my dream houses."


For weeks, I had been gazing at a book on Aldington Craig and Collinge at work, and pretending the calm interior on the cover was the home I would be returning to at the end of the day. I had been wanting to show them to Jamie, to see if he agreed.


The houses bring a warmth to Southern England housing, without imposing something out of place. There is almost a hint of the Californian about them, but they still feel perfectly British. Like you'd be listening to Nick Drake inside, with a pint of a cask ale.