AHMM is a premier international architectural practice. Established over 30 years ago, it has won numerous awards including the Stirling Prize. Through the contributions of journalists, clients, fellow professionals and academics, this AD issue celebrates the practice's achievements in all areas of architectural production, featuring archive material, new works and unparalleled access to the AHMM organisation, revealing new insights into their work and urban philosophies.To get to this eminent position, the office has consistently responded in innovative and imaginative ways to the changing imperatives of art, science and economics that influence our built environment. These parameters have metamorphosed considerably since AHMM was founded, in terms of advances in digitisation, material science and changes to contract management, what constitutes sustainability, procurement routes, construction methods, collaboration and architectural education.Above all this AD will explore AHMM's practice as a holistic design project in itself, in terms of building buildings, but also in using a design ethos to cope with shifts in workload and the firm's varying business activities and its administration over the years, thus providing insight for a future generation of potentially successful architectural professionals.

About the EditorNeil Spiller 05IntroductionUrban ArtefactsDeveloping the Delightful CityNeil Spiller 06Setting The StageDressing It and Making the PropsNeil Spiller 12Continuity With a DifferenceRising to ProminencePaul Finch 20Very Much an English StoryPeter Cook 30The ExtraOrdinarySome Thoughts on Architecture and the Theatre of Everyday LifeSimon Allford 38Reimagining the HomeIsabel Allen 46A Passion to RepurposeFlexibility for the FutureMartyn Evans 54Opening Up EducatingInstitutions, Opening Up Methodologiesllis Woodman 62À La Recherche d'AHMMJay Merrick 70The Invention of Projects that Create an AddressRoger Zogolovitch 82Being SigniicantThe Problem of What We Cannot MeasureHanif Kara 88Colourful CollaborationCreating Joyous AmbiencesMorag Myerscough 96Environmental DesignFrom the Intuitive to the ParametricPatrick Bellew 104A Symbiotic RelationshipReminiscences of the FamilyJoe Morris 112The New EstablishmentPolitics and PerformanceFrances Anderton 118From Another PerspectiveOld Buildings, New ArchitectureRichard Grifiths ArchitectsNeil Spiller 128