Smout Allen’s work often uses exhibitions as an active research environment and as a final showcase. The installation of scale models, drawings, map tables, fragments and devices act as a form of enquiry in their own right. We hope that spatial propositions, environmental narratives and territorial analyses can be tested here at a communicative scale.
Venice Biennale:
2025: Arsenale, Ascents Events Implements with modem
2021: Giardini, Rescue Lines
2021: Giardini, Olafur Eliasson’s Studio Other Spaces, The Future Assembly, Hedgerows
2016: V&A Applied Arts Pavilion, ‘World of Fragile Parts’, Infractus—the taking of Robin Hood Garden
2012: British Pavilion: ‘Venice Takeway—Ideas to Change Architecture’, British Exploratory Land Archive
Selected Exhibitions:
2025: ‘Section as Cosmogram: From the Heavens to the Earth’. Curated by David Salomon, exhibition includes a contribution from #LATBD
2025 ‘Possible Worlds’ at the Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Future Assembly Hedgerow
2025: ‘Spectral Agriculture and Inhabited Infrastructures’ at the Keller Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Super-Mega-Ruralistic
2025: ‘Regional Globalism in the Tennessee Valley’ at the Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Super-Mega-Ruralistic
2025: ‘The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting’ at the A83 Gallery, NY, USA. Exhibition includes a contribution from Super-Mega-Ruralistic
2019: ‘Contemporary Cartography’ at the Building Design Centre, Liquid Kingdom
2018: ‘The Future Starts Here’ at the V&A
2017: ’Modelling an Architectural Proving Ground’ at The Ewing Gallery, College of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, Liquid Kingdom
2017: ‘Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural’ at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Exhibition includes a contribution from #LATBD
2015: ‘#LATBD’ at USC Libraries, LA, USA. [with Geoff Manaugh]
2015: ‘LA Recalculated’ at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. [with Geoff Manaugh]
2013: ‘BELA’ at the Architectural Association, British Exploratory Land Archive
2013: ‘Venice Takeway—Ideas to Change Architecture’ at the RIBA, British Exploratory Land Archive
2012: ‘Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions’ [curated by Geoff Manaugh]. Centre for Art and Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA. Exhibition publication here. Exhibition includes London's Hydro Infrastructure, Envirographic Instruments, Surface Tension, Neo-Natures Meniscus Model, Neo-Natures Envirogrammic Prototypes for Lanzarote
2012: ‘Envirographic Architecture’ at the University of Manitoba, Canada, London's Hydro Infrastructure, Envirographic Instruments, Neo-Natures Meniscus Model, Neo-Natures Envirogrammic Prototypes for Lanzarote
2013: ‘Nurturing the Spirit: Japanese Sustainability and Craft, Mission Gallery Cardiff, Wales, Lunar Wood
2012: ‘Japanese Style: Sustaining Design’, Ruthin Craft Centre for the Applied Arts, Lunar Wood
2007: ‘Augmented Landscapes’ Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Contributions from the following projects have been selected.
2025 Super-Mega-Ruralistic, risograph. Purchase here!
2023 Rescue Lines, Hedge Houses drawings and 3 study models) and Smout Allen sketchbooks
2022 Future Assembly Hedgerows model
2021 Infractus
2020 Liquid Kingdom, The Origin and The Sheppey Droneport drawings
2019 Liquid Kingdom, Sea Marker and Hedge drawings
2016 #LATBD model
2010 Envirogrammic Prototypes for Lanzarote, River Reversal and Ground Cloud drawings
2007 Ballistic Devices How things fly up and outwards models and Blooming Landscape , Passive Environmental Performance drawing
2005 Landmarks Panorama model and Retreating Village drawings, Winner of the AJ Bovis Award for Architecture, 2006 (Topographic Manoeuvres) and
2004 Blooming Landscapes, Deep Surface model
Exhibition Design
‘Radical Landscapes’ at Tate Liverpool, 5 May–4 Sept 2022
‘Living with Buildings’ at the Wellcome Collection, 4 Oct 2018—3 Mar 2019
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