The ruinous states of buildings in the western world has captured the imagination since the 18th century. From Piranesi and his Roman ‘vedute’ to the Picturesque movement and their designed ruined follies sited in English country gardens and parkland, the decay of a building tells of neglect and loss yet sparks in us a desire to romanticise the deterioration.

Dominic Walker is a practicing architect working on projects from the scale of furniture up to private and public buildings. He set up his own office in 2024, after his time as the Rome Scholar in Architecture at The British School at Rome (2023. His work explores the historical evolution of architectural language and its relation to contemporary tectonics.