Richard Saxton

Research Archive

Richard Saxton’s Research Archive is part of an ongoing investigation into the construction of the everyday built landscape. Serving a larger purpose of informing Saxton’s other creative endeavors, the archive also exists as a work in itself, an accumulation of pictures that looks beyond the obvious, showing how disparate perspectives can inform interrelated but different spaces. The images come from a number of locales across the world, including the great plains and mountain west regions of the US, Europe, Haiti, and South America. Saxton’s Research Archive primarily focuses on rural and owner built structures, constructions that do not conform to any design standards or building codes. The archive is a celebration of freedom and autonomy in building, and is a testament to chance, resourcefulness, simplicity, unpredictability, and everyday ingenuity.

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