Collaborators: Lesley McIntyre, Will Campbell, Ed Oldridge, Adam Williams, Lucy Barrett, Ellie Owen, Cassey Loo, Chole Ingle, Adian Ledward, Finlay Greenwood, Rainbow Thein, Andy Green, Millie Grogan-Woodford, Alex Butler, Tyler Liversidge.

This collaborative project proposes a reframing of the "unbuilt": rather than focusing solely on what was never constructed, we examine what architecture becomes when it returns to an unbuilt state. Northeast England's ruins, from historic fragments and lime kilns to industrial infrastructure, represent architecture in reverse, slowly deconstructing back to landscape. These fragments are prototypes for architecture's inevitable future, challenging permanence as a foundational assumption of the discipline. Drawing inspiration from Bernd and Hilla Becher's typological rigour, MArch students and tutors have created individual drypoint prints forming a cabinet of curiosities. This systematic documentation treats ruins as active research subjects: the weathered slit of a 14th-century bastle, the corbelled vault of a lime kiln, the skeletal headframe of a pit shaft. Each print captures transformation rather than failure.