Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery’, Drawing Architecture (ed. Neil Spiller), Architectural Design 83.5 (Sep 2013): 88–93.
‘We move between drawings and 3D and both show the qualities of the other’. Interview by Peter Cook and Will Hunter, Architectural Review 1395: Architecture and Representation (May 2013): 62–71
‘Superscript: an interview with Mark Smout and Laura Allen’. Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions. Ed. Geoff Manaugh. Barcelona: Actar, 2013: 123–138.
Built as part of London’s Olympic 2012 celebrations, the Universal Tea Machine was a huge mechanical ‘adding computer’ that celebrated the British appetite for trade, technological innovation and tea. It also paid homage to the late English mathematician Alan Turing’s ‘Universal Turing Machine’. As you can see, the better your binary addition skills the better your cup of tea! http://www.smoutallen.com/
Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions. Ed. Geoff Manaugh. Barcelona: Actar, 2013.
‘Lunar Wood’, Trace Magazine, Vol 9, Chile (Autumn 2014)
Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions (curated by Geoff Manaugh). Centre for Art and Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA, 13 Aug 2011 – 19 Feb 2012.
'Counting House', Young Blood, Architectural Design, Vol 71, No.1, Wiley Academy, 2001.
The installation, which speculates on intriguing mythical beliefs and traditional attitudes that pervade our understanding of natural materials, was produced for a Nurturing the Spirit, a residency that brought together the Osamu Ishiyama Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo; Smout Allen and the Design Unit of the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. It takes the form of a counter-balanced wooden landscape where equilibrium is disturbed and reset by bursts of air from below and the swinging movement of weights from above triggering the landscape to move in a rhythmic wave. The surface can be seen and heard to resonate with the fluctuating and reciprocal push and pull of natural cycles. The project can be seen at the Ruthin Craft Centre as part of the 'Japanese Style: Sustaining Design' exhibition. More information can be found on our website, www.smoutallen.com
Augmented Landscapes, Princeton Architectural Press, Pamphlet Architecture 28, International. Smout Allen, 2007.
Crane TV at the Venice Biennale | Venice Takeaway | The British Pavilion, August 2012.
Haralambidou, P, Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire, Ashgate, December, 2013