A Very Small Part of Architecture resurrects Austrian Modernist architect Adolf Loos’s 1921 design for a mausoleum for art historian Max Dvorák. Though never built, the image of Loos’ design has haunted architectural culture ever since. Here the heavy dark and masonic form is recreated at 1:1 scale using a lightweight timber frame and scaffold […]

Science Museum Group Sam Jacob Studio has completed the first phase of a project for the National Collections Centre. The collection management facility for the Science Museum Group is housed in a new purpose-built home at the National Collections Centre in Wiltshire. This new facility provides the stable environmental conditions needed for the long-term preservation […]

The Sun is a temporary exhibition at the Science Museum, London which explores the incredible story of our closest star through hands-on experiences, unique objects and stunning imagery. The exhibition aims to engage both local family audiences as well as appeal to the significant international visitor base for the Science Museum. The exhibition synthesises around […]

                              The MK Menhir is a 1:1 replica of a standing sarsen stone from the Avebury stone circle, sited on a Porte Cochère at the top of Milton Keynes’ Midsummer Boulevard. The Avebury stone has been 3d scanned and the data […]

The Pasticcio is a proposal for a tower commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The tower is composed of varied architectural references fused into a new whole: A new kind of tower made out of fragments of history. The design refers to two seminal Chicago buildings – one only imagined, the other built. Both designed […]

  SJS have completed a new installation for Granary Square titled The Electric Nemeton. The Electric Nemeton draws on the origins of the Christmas tree tradition, referencing the forest groves that acted as gathering places in Celtic culture. Reimagined here with geometry, colour and light it becomes an abstracted forest grove. Part tree, part spaceframe, […]

                          Sea Things was commissioned as a landmark project by London Design Festival and SAP. It featured a 4 meter two-way mirrored cube with an LED screen on its top surface suspended in the entrance hall of the V&A. The sharp abstract geometry […]

                            EXHIBITION: 24 FEBRUARY — 15 APRIL 2023  BETTS PROJECT 100 CENTRAL STREET LONDON EC1V 8AJ  Against Nature is an exhibition about architecture, landscape and nature. It is also about the guilt, power, loss, and hope intrinsic to architecture. Architecture is always […]

                MTArt Artist Delphine Diallo’s work has been acquired by the permanent collection of Guerlain, as part of the ‘Dear Eugénie’ photo exhibition at Maison Guerlain – featured alongside works by Charlotte Rampling, Audrey Tautou, and more. Guerlain’s perfume and beauty creations provide opportunities for encounters with talented […]

Pictures of small sculptures (8) commissioned by the Benin Embassy to Japan back in 2019. The sculpture represents a traditional Beninese saying of King Ghézo. A rough translation follows : “The holed jar contains the water that will give the country happiness. If all the children came, with their fingers assembled to plug the holes, […]

Artist-in-residence project in Benin back in 2016 at the Art Center of Cotonou. There, I build a Raku kiln, created ceramics works and did an exhibition called “Terres de Mémoire”.