publications
We regularly share our work and research through leading architecture publications, building bridges between academic insights and real-world practice. Our projects and thinking have been featured in Architectural Review, RIBA Journal, and Dezeen Online Magazine, while our research papers appear in respected academic journals like HSA Housing Studies, Ecology and Society. By publishing our work, we not only showcase our built projects and community engagement workshops but also contribute to wider conversations about where architecture and urban research, process and production is heading. This exchange of ideas helps us create better design methods for our stakeholders, a richer dialogue within our team and context-driven spaces for our clients.
London Evening Standard 26/07/2017
Escape to the Roof
Guardian Weekend 22/10/2011
Fit for a Family
Don’t Move Improve! 2023
Dulwich Delight
publications in architectural press:
A Small Studio Ltd. (2021), “Emerging Architects 4”, The Architecture Foundation [Book]
New London Architecture (NLA) (2021). ‘WRK/LDN: Office Revolution?’. (found online: https://nla.london/insights/wrkldn-office-revolution)
High Street Tasks Force [2021]. ‘The Power of Norwood High Street by A Small Studio’. (found online: https://www.highstreetstaskforce.org.uk)
Dezeen [2021]. ‘Ten Loft Conversions by architects that add extra space to homes’. (found online: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/04/ten-loft-conversions-dezeen-lookbooks/)
The Telegraph Magazine (2021). “Inside Story: Roof rooms that pay for themselves’ (July 2021).
The Building Centre [2020]. ‘The People’s High street by A Small Studio’. (found online: https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/news/articles/the-peoples-high-street)
RIBA Journal [2020]. ‘Canopy House in Nairobi by A Small Studio.’ (July 2020)
Grand Designs [2018]. ‘New Tradition: A Stylish Combination of Geometric Shapes creates an eye-catching scheme’. (September 2018)
Dwell [2018]. ‘Better Half A modest expansion is a major improvement for a Victorian 'half-house' in London.’ (April 2018)
Jenkins, H. (2017). “British + Irish Modern. ‘New Houses and Old Houses Made New’”. Images Publishing. London.
The Guardian [2017]. ‘Former Glory: Staying True to 1950s Home Design’ (December 2017)
Dezeen [2016]. ‘Victorian loft conversion by A Small Studio creates “relaxation oasis” (found online: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/10/31/victorian-loft-conversion-by-a-small-studio-creates-relaxation-oasis-south-london-uk/)
Wilson, J., (2011). Architect Profile. House & Garden Magazine (May 2011)
Smith, R., (2011). Fit for a family. The Guardian Weekend (22.10.11)
Ling, R., (2011). A townhouse refurbishment. The Scotsman Magazine (20.08.11)
Rivera, H (2003). ‘Commodified Education’. Popular Architecture: Graduate Shows reviewed, Blueprint Magazine (September 2003)
academic papers and book chapters:
Harry Smith, Soledad Garcia Ferrari, Gabriela M. Medero, Helena Rivera, Françoise Coupé, Mónica Elizabeth Mejía Escalante, Wilmar Castro Mera, Carlos Alberto Montoya Correa, Alex Abiko & Fernando A. M. Marinho (2021) Exploring appropriate socio-technical arrangements for the co-production of landslide risk management strategies in informal neighbourhoods in Colombia and Brazil, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, DOI: 10.1080/19463138.2021.1872082
Smith, H., F. Coupé, S. Garcia-Ferrari, H. Rivera, and W. E. Castro Mera. 2020. Toward negotiated mitigation of landslide risks in informal settlements: reflections from a pilot experience in Medellín, Colombia. Ecology and Society 25(1):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11337-250119
Rivera, H. (2020), "Unpacking the Official View: Five Myths on British New Towns", Fée, D., Colenutt, B. and Schäbitz, S.C. (Ed.) Lessons from British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost?, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-430-920201003
Smith, Harry, Garcia-Ferrari, Soledad, Medero, Gabriela, Rivera, Helena, Coupé, Françoise, Caballero, Humberto, Castro, Wilmar, Abiko, Alex, Marinho, Fernando A. M. and Ferreira, Karolyne. "Chapter 10: Learning From Co-Produced Landslide Risk Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Settlements in Medellín (Colombia) and São Paulo (Brazil)". Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change, edited by Astrid Ley, Ashiq Ur Rahman, Josefine Fokdal and Md Ashiq Ur Rahman, Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 2020, pp. 243-266. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839449424-013
Smith, Harry, Garcia-Ferrari, Soledad, Medero, Gabriela, Rivera, Helena. "Hillside Communities learn to Mitigate Landslide Risks". Re.Think Earth, edited by Marikka Haeggman and Zoe Wildsmith, Creative Commons License, 2018. https://rethink.earth/hillside-communities-learn-to-mitigate-landslide-risks/
Rivera, H (2015) ‘Housing (crisis) versus planning (ideology): Rethinking New Towns and the building of new communities in England’. [Conference paper] HSA Housing Studies Associations: Housing the Generations: Justice, Inequality and the implications of Political Change, University of York (9 April 2015)
Rivera, Helena (2011) ‘Social Sustainability in Urban Areas: Communities Connectivity and the Urban Fabric’. [Book Review] Housing Studies, 26: 3, 477 — 478
Rivera, H (2008) ‘Case Study for Turner Gallery Margate’. [Report] commissioned by the Urban Renaissance Institute (URI) for the South East Excellence website (November 2008)
Rivera, H (2008) ‘Case Study for Pallant House Gallery in Chichester’ [Report] commissioned by the Urban Renaissance Institute (URI) for the South East Excellence website (November 2008)