Last night's AJ small projects party was fun as ever – a group of the totally unestablished and the nearly established getting pissed on very bad RIBA wine. Burning the insides of their stomachs were the likes of Amin Taha and Peter Clash from their eponymous practices; Ben Addy from Moxon; Will Foster from Foster Lomas; Ben Paul from Neu; Eriko Shimazaki; Kim Quazi of FLACQ; Paul Archer, winner of the £1,000 top prize; and many, many more. The vibe was great, despite the booze, and one could not help but agree with Argent’s David Partridge, one of the judges, when he said that the collected work and the collected guests ‘illustrated the rude health of British architecture’
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