Aimilios ‘Emil’ Davlantis Lo, a London-based Architect, Machinist and Mechanical Workshop Engineer at UCL’s High Precision Design and Fabrication Facility, takes us through his making journey of a mobile giraffe ring for his wife’s 30th birthday gift.

London’s biggest open-access workshop, Bloqs, partners with the new platform for architect-makers, Gubns, to host their first metal workshop for guests to create a bespoke brass pen.

Fast Company: Gubns is a marketplace of bespoke items that architects started creating during the pandemic.

This month we welcome three talented powerhouses hailing from the US to Italy and Canada. Formally trained in architecture, these ladies have transcended to new crafts with the utmost elegance, beauty and precision.

Save the Date: Gubns Architect-Maker Pop-up

This month, we welcome our newest members joining us from New York, Washington DC and London. This group of architect-makers demonstrate an incredibly diverse range of talents across ceramics, woodworking, prints and furniture.

Gubns will officially launch with an Architect-Maker Pop-up at the London Festival of Architecture in June 2022. Applications are now open to join.

Around this time of year, architecture students everywhere will have packed up their work from winter final exhibitions, searched their closets or shelves, and found a good corner for their models to collect dust—forever. In this Guest Essay for Gubns, Seb Fathi shares his thoughts on the tragic wastefulness of exceptional models that are given a shelf life of just a few weeks - the typical length of architecture Summer Shows and Final Exhibitions - before they’re brought home to be forgotten.

Based in London, Natcha Kucita is a freelance BIM Engineer and Founder of the Vessel of Light, an earthy ceramics studio that explores timelessness through clay. Last year, she left her full-time role as Senior BIM Designer at Integral Group to pursue the healing middle-ground between contractor and ceramicist.

In her conversation with Gubns, Natcha shares her story of finding balance between two opposing disciplines - the yin and yang between engineering and pottery making - and her spiritual journey of being present behind the wheel.