HERON-MAZY
ALTERED ARCHITECTURE IN PROGRESS
Heron-Mazy is a working practice producing altered
architecture projects, investigative pedagogies, interfaces and altered media
film.
It is run by JOHN MARUSZCZAK and ROGER CONNAH assisted by
Ryan Manning.
Heron-Mazy’s works are snapshots in an Altered Architectural
Album – vivid, delightfully informal, they sample reality and virtuality and
cast that new dreamlight on the uncaptured moments of experience. Always between
the political and the personal, the architecture alters as one experiences
text, image, drawing and film. Just as
their award winning Revenge of the Lawn (White House Redux 2008) these
fantasies and love stories are scripted through unusual relationship to space,
light and fiction. Hidden inside lost histories Heron-Mazy
demonstrate an architecture of wit, humanity and originality not previously
achieved since writers imagined an architecture of iDeath and architects began
to write themselves out of the past.
Believing the world needs constants scripts to renew its own meaning,
these scripts, virtual and mysterious are prose poems of the contemporary
architectural folk tale. While every effort is made to keep within the bounds
of imagined worlds it is sometimes necessary to break such rules at short
notice. Heron-Mazy are architects, animators and scriptwriters of an altered
and altering architecture. Not only a miraculous journey and architecture of
surreal mismatch, Heron-Mazy seek a lively touch of ingenious and blithe
vibrancy.
Will Challinor author of ‘Architecture Always Changing.’