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    Embracing limit and finding joyfulness Anita Panov and Andrew Scott Guest editors

    Jun 29, 2020 6 minutes
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    — Anita Panov and Andrew Scott are the founders
    of Panov Scott Architects.

    Small

    … is appropriate for our time of increasing density and scarce resources.

    … is an acceptable risk within contemporary procurement processes.

    … is reliant on the immediate context so tends to be inherently ethical.

    … is architecture’s most prevalent and effective scale. … is both innovative and subservient to precedent and planning.

    … transgresses disciplinary boundaries.

    … enfranchises the architect.

    … describes the majority of practices in Australia.

    … captivates those outside the discipline.

    Smallness, or embracing limit

    Size is among the central preoccupations of an architect. We set the size of elements to enable proportional relationships in the structures we facilitate. There is size within the project, as there is the size of the project in its setting.

    Of course, measures of size, be it small or large, are relative. The diminutive in one context takes on a very different stature in another and so empirical measurement that seeks binary categorization will be thwarted. In this

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