Benjamin Reynolds’ works often comprise numerous discrete décors to access ideas and inherit architectural character. Benjamin’s works play out through exhaustive 'idea surveys' that stem from an interest in large acts of human endeavour—encyclopaedic projects, expeditions, taxonomies, etc.—which naturalises Benjamin’s works within the ceaselessly shifting contexts in which they operate.
He is the director of Pa.LaC.E (https://palace.studio/), a practice based between Basel and London. They have won the 50th annual Shinkenchiku Award in Tokyo, among other international prizes, and their work has been shown at ICA (UK), Van Abbemuseum (NL), Oslo Triennale of Architecture (NO), the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (ES), Ausstellungsraum Klingental in Basel (CH), Basis voor Actuele Kunst – BAK (NL), La Becque (CH) and the Architecture Foundation in London (UK). They have established “High Holdings” (http://ho.ldin.gs/) at the Royal College of Arts in London where they conduct an architectural class.
Their work has been published widely including in Volume (Amsterdam), EP (Sternberg Press), Shelter Press, e-Flux Journal (New York), Ecocore (London) and ED (Los Angeles). Their work is part of collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Previously they have lectured at Columbia University in New York, ETH ZĂĽrich D-ARCH, UdK Berlin and the Architectural Association in London.