rob.annable.co.uk

Welcome. This is the homepage of Rob Annable. I am an architect and teacher based in the West Midlands, UK. I live with my family in a self-build labour of love called home4self – a slightly idiosyncratic experiment in architecture, construction and materials that won a few awards and informed my ongoing commitment to low energy housing design and construction innovation.

The practice of architecture occurs as Axis Design, carrying the legacy of Axis Design Architects and Axis Design Collective, whose work has been a part of building and teaching in the Midlands since the 1980s.

The critique of architecture and its outcomes occurs as Field Section LLP in collaboration with an anthropologist. Our goal is to sharpen method through ethnographic engagement and meet problems where they actually live – in the field.

Writing may happen in a journal, experiences may be recorded in field notes. An archive of past ideas and positions carries the contents of a blog from 2004 to 2025 called no2self. Experimental computer science is shared on github.