The team’s architectural projects include the ‘discussions, lectures, research, exhibitions and explorations that work through the issues relevant to each project’. The team’s philosophy is informed by the imperative of architectural practice to ‘engage with complex interconnected and overlapping systems’. TERROIR have collaborated with artist John Vella to create a screen-based installation for the exhibition. The 16 minute three-screen projected loop was edited and post produced by Mark Cornelius at Clockwork Beehive.
Portrait of TERROIR 2009
by Brett Boardman
In his portrait of TERROIR, Brett Boardman says he wanted to emphasise ‘the role of landscape and place in their work’ and ‘the disparate landscapes that the three directors operate within’. Boardman has chosen to ‘isolate them from this natural setting and unify them by providing a blank “virtual” and common background to each’. The disparate landscapes are connected by the team’s two offices. Boardman says ‘the apparatus of the photograph – the stands, clamps and sandbags – remain as part of the image showing the photographic working nature of the portrait’.
