Milani Gallery and Studios Vokes and Peters

Typically, we are not aware of the influence that buildings can have on us; we have a tendency to underestimate architecture by exaggerating its utility. We often think of buildings not as spaces in which human life takes shape but rather as sites for certain functions and activities. This is part of the reason why Stuart Vokes, director of Vokes and Peters, is reluctant to label rooms by their function, preferring instead to think of them as vessels marked by what we do in them. The new Milani Gallery by Vokes and Peters constructs a sequence of spaces that provides a careful interplay between the cosmopolitan attitude that is common in venues for the display of contemporary art and the local character of the place in which it has been generated and is received.

Milani Gallery, located among