Brutalist architecture is divisive – its style is appreciated by many and disliked by many. Brutalist high-rise social housing projects were designed with progressive qualities in mind, but fell short of this goal, being known for fostering crime and for their poor design, construction and maintenance. 'Low-rise' explores brutalism, the relationship between housing and its environment, and how this relationship was one of the keys to success in the low-rise estate when compared to the high-rise tower block. Captured on infrared film, the photographic technique highlights the relationship between housing and its environment by rendering nature in a luminous white.

We were working then, not to do social housing, but to do housing. Not to do a site, but to work on the idea of a piece of city, to revitalise and work with the society that was there.

- Neave Brown