Notes & Essays

The Journal

Dispatches from the studio — restoration notes from the scaffolding, essays on heritage, and news worth a paragraph.

Essay — 18 May 2026

Reading a wall before touching it

Every survey begins the same way: an hour with the wall, no instruments, no notes. What a building tells you before measurement is often what the restoration hinges on.

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2 March 2026

Restoration Notes

Notes from the Hillside scaffolding

Three months into the Hillside Café restoration: what the lime mortar trials taught us, and why the west elevation kept its scars.

20 January 2026

Studio News

VIKO at the European Conservation Forum

Nilgün Demir joins this year's panel on reversible intervention in masonry conservation — and the studio's Atrium Gallery casework goes on display.