Perhaps now more than ever before, we are all aware of the built environment that surrounds us, and of the impacts it has on the health of individuals, communities, and the planet. The Architecture of Place series brings together the established and emerging voices working to create a better built future.
From December 2024 through February 2025, the 蜜桃传媒app, , and will co-host The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a series of interviews featuring three architects and scholars from different backgrounds and points of view: John Smylie, Tiffany Abernathy, and Dr. Patricia Canelas. Over the three-part series, each speaker will have the chance to play the role of both interviewer and interviewee. In each installment, one of the three architects will be interviewed by one of the others about the influences, experiences, and projects that have led to their design perspective on the architecture of place. At the end of each session, students from partnering university departments will pose additional questions to the speakers, followed by an open Q&A with attendees.
The programs are free and open for public registration, and recorded versions of the programs will be made available to all.
In this iteration of the series, Sara Bega will interview Minty Sainsbury about her design work and background.
Minty Sainsbury is an artist living and working in London. She is best known for her highly detailed and instantly recognisable stylised architectural pencil drawings.
Minty balances her time working between bespoke commissions and her own drawing projects. She has currently paused her commissioned work to focus on a series of artworks inspired from an artist residency in India.
Minty has arranged and curated five solo exhibitions. One in Glasgow in partnership with the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. As well as four solo exhibitions in Central London. Alongside solo shows Minty has exhibited in group exhibitions across the UK, Paris, and New York. This year she was selected to exhibit at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.
She has an ever growing following on social media with more than 200,000 followers across her platforms.
Minty studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge where she was a scholar at Emmanuel College. She graduated with a first class degree, achieved the top marks in her year, and won a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) student award. She then went on to work for a year at the architecture firm Carmody Groarke in London before pursuing a full time career as an artist.
Born. 1991, Scotland.