Therefore: Terrarium House with John Ellway is a photographic and conversational survey of a single architectural project — John Ellway's Terrarium House — in which images and dialogue work together to expose the thinking embedded in the design.
About This Book
Part of Shantanu Starick's Therefore series, this volume uses photography not as documentation but as inquiry. Trained on Ellway's Terrarium House, Starick's images resist the polished neutrality of conventional architectural photography — they press into the spatial experience of the project. Paired with edited conversations, the photographs and dialogue form a double register: neither simply records, and together they make the design's logic available for sustained reflection. For architects and students interested in how built work carries and conceals its own intentions, this format — one project, one photographer, one dialogue — rewards close attention.
Key Features
- 104 pages of architectural photography and edited conversation centred on a single residential project
- Photography and editorial by Shantanu Starick; project by architect John Ellway
- Published by Self-published
What You'll Discover
- How photographic framing can function as critical interpretation rather than neutral record
- The spatial logic of Terrarium House, including its relationship to ventilation, enclosure, and perception from within
- How edited conversation — rather than essay or caption — can reveal architectural intent without reducing it
- A format that treats a single project as worthy of sustained, focused inquiry rather than coverage within a survey
About the Author
Shantanu Starick is the photographer and creator of the Therefore series, a self-published body of work using photographic studies and conversation to examine built environments. Each volume in the series is dedicated to a single architectural project.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 104
- Dimensions: 148mm x 210mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: [Details available upon request]
- Publisher: Self-published
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, architecture students, and photography practitioners interested in how the camera engages with built work — and in small-format publishing as a critical instrument.