Register - Architecture & Landscape
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsConversations about Architecture & Landscape from the Kingston School of Art, London
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REGISTER - KERSTEN GEERS (OFFICE KGDVS)
April 21, 2024 09:09 - 53 minutes - 73 MBIn this conversation Andrew Clancy speaks with the Belgian architect Kersten Geers. Kersten was educated at the University of Ghent and in ETSA Madrid, before setting up his practice (Office KGDVS) with his friend David Van Severen in 2002. This practice has from the start had a very clear position, with each project presenting itself as a typological study in a way - refined to an essential reading. Building its innovations from a close reading of history particular attention is paid to pl...
REGISTER - ANNA MINTON
April 02, 2024 15:02 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with Dr Anna Minton. Anna investigates and writes about the politics shaping our cities. In particular she tracks how certain forms of global capital are increasingly informing more and more of what makes their fabric. Streets, squares and housing are now frequently being shaped by pressures that have little consideration of the needs of the vast majority of their citizens. Her two books 'Ground Control' and 'Big Capital' are essential reading (click on ...
REGISTER - JO TAILLIEU
March 12, 2024 08:56 - 57 minutes - 78.4 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with the Belgian architect Jo Taillieu. Jo is Professor of Architecture in EPFL Lausanne, and runs his practice, Jo Taillieu Architecten, from his home town of Ghent. He established this practice in 2004, and between 2009 and 2019 worked in partnership with Jan deVylder and Inge Vynck. In all his work, in collaboration or sole practice, Jo brings an open and curious sensibility, based on a close reading of each site and its potentials. This attitude all...
REGISTER - MARILYNE ANDERSEN
February 19, 2024 10:02 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy talks with Professor Marilyne Andersen. Marilyne is a physicst by training, but her first love was architecture. Her research has allowed her to develop a particular expertise in daylight, which has allowed her to work in a very architectural way in her various laboratories. She explores the effect of the built environment on daylight, and on how this impacts on human behaviours, mood and well being. In this conversation we range widely, exploring her early w...
REGISTER - HERMANSSON HILLER LUNDBERG
January 26, 2021 18:21 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this episode Andrew interviews Andreas and Samuel from Stockholm based Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Architects. Their practice is concerned with the capacity for contemporary construction for expression - and they explore structure and a close reading of context to make characterful and beautifully considered work at a wide variety of scales. The work speaks eloquently of our time, and draws on deep traditions in architecture - seeking expressive qualities in contemporary construction te...
REGISTER - MILINDA PATHIRAJA
November 01, 2020 20:08 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBIn this episode Simon Henley interviews Milinda Pathiraja. Milinda's is a director and co-founder of Robust Architecture Workshop, a practice based in Sri Lanka, and concerned with developing new means for architecture to operate there. The term 'Robust' is key, its meaning to Milinda representing architectures ability to develop a resilience by a clear sighted engagement with the world - eschewing the brittleness that comes from autonomous conversations, and making its languages from a bot...
REGISTER - GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
September 06, 2020 17:21 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBIn this episode Nana Biamah Ofosu and Andrew Clancy interview Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects. Nana is a tutor in the Kingston School of Art, leading studies into precedent and the lessons found in territorial Ghanaian architecture as part of her Second Year Studio. Grafton Architects are the current Pritzker Laureates, an accolade that arrives as they appear to be gathering pace with a remarkable series of university buildings completed in the last few years, and...
REGISTER - SIMON HENLEY
April 16, 2020 17:38 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with Simon Henley of Henley Halebrown Architects. Simon is an educator and a practitioner, and has written several books about architecture, most recently ‘Redefining Brutalism’ - which seeks to redefine the subject beyond style, and to capture its sensibility as a living language of architecture -0 encompassing robustness at its core. Today their explorations into the language of architecture are being teased out via a series of remarkable housing proj...
REGISTER - CATHY HAWLEY
April 08, 2020 13:32 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy chats with the architect and educator Cathy Hawley. Cathy Haley started her professional career with the art and architecture collaborative muf, moved on to doing remarkable housing projects as a founding partner of Riches Hawley Mikhail, and now works with Public Practice to embed critical thinking about context and character into the development plans of a series of towns. Wherever she has worked she has brought a clarity of insight, valuing the unseen and t...
REGISTER - NICHOLAS OLSBERG
March 30, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBIn this episode Laura Evans and Matt Wells talk with the Historian and curator Nicholas Olsberg. Nicholas is a former director of the Canadian Centre of Architecture, and is a prolific writer. He has curated many exhibitions about architects and architecture and in this conversation shares his views about the role of the curator in this context. In particular he speaks about the need to make exhibitions which present those visiting with vivid moments of engagement with the subject - a par...
REGISTER - ALBA DI LIETO & WILLIAM WHITAKER
March 25, 2020 13:20 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBIn this episode Mary Vaughan Johnson and Federica Goffi Interview Alba di Lieto and William Whitaker Mary is the head of our Department of Architecture and Landcape here in Kingston, while Federica is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the PhD and MAS Program at Carleton University. Last Summer Mary and Federica hosted the Frascari Symposium at Kingston, and it was at this event this podcast was recorded. In it Mary and Federica interview Alba diLieto and William Whitaker. Alba is cura...
REGISTER - 3144
February 14, 2020 19:29 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this podcast Laura Evans and Matt Wells interview William Burgess and Stephen Davies of 31/44 In the intro I mention our new books project. If you want to support us by pre-ordering copies of our first books please visit the crowdfunding site here https://kubacker.hubbub.net/p/REGISTER-Conversations/ Will is well known to us in Kingston as a studio tutor in third year, where he runs a unit with Kate Micklin also of 31/44. The work of the unit is a good way to understand some of the in...
REGISTER - ODONNELL + TUOMEY
December 12, 2019 07:09 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Shiela O'Donnell and John Tuomey of O'Donnell and Tuomey. John and Shiela are as much educators as architects, and this conversation roves freely between conversations about schools, and their own work in practice. It is clear that these two worlds are interconnected and interreliant in a profound way in their lives. The work in both places has overlaps - not least a concern with close reading of site and context, and an investment in drawing out w...
REGISTER - ALVARO SIZA (EPISODE 1)
December 03, 2019 16:20 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBIn this episode Bruno Silvestre interviews his compatriot Alvaro Siza. First off an apology - the sound is not as we would like it. Circumstances dictated that the interview had to be recorded in a hotel lobby, and the backgrounders noise is quite distracting - but we felt it was useful to put out anyway. Bruno is working with Siza on a project here in the UK, and grabbed this time during Sizas most recent visit. In this conversation they talk about practice, Sizes early frustrations wi...
REGISTER - TAKA
November 18, 2019 10:49 - 1 hour - 104 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy and Laura Evans interview Alice Casey and Can Deegan of TAKA Architects in Dublin. Over their 10 years of practice Alice and Cian have designed a series of remarkable buildings, which clearly illustrate the concerns of the office. Most obvious there is a recurrent engagement with context, making buildings which are grounded in the forms and materials of their physical situation. There is more at work than this - most intriguingly a continual engagement with t...
REGISTER - GUNTHER VOGT
November 06, 2019 13:09 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBIn this episode Louise Koopmanns and Andrew Clancy interview Gunter Vogt, the eminent landscape designer, and Chair of Landscape at ETH Zurich. He views landscape design not as an autonomous totalling discipline, but as a careful reassembly of the world. In his methods he stresses the productive tension between the necessary subjectivity of the human condition, and the availability of scientific analysis and process. In speaking with his students he observes that a field trip can at once ...
REGISTER - AMIN TAHA
October 22, 2019 18:47 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBIn this episode Kate Ivinson and Dan Ryder-Cook both interview the London architect Amin Taha. Amin’s work, and that of the practice he established (Groupwork) is heavily invested in exploring the potentials for contemporary technology to allow a re-engagement with materiality, ornament and civic expression - particularly in the making of facades. This approach, at once playful and rigorous, has resulted in work which is beautifully detailed, robustly made and historically situated. In t...
REGISTER - EDWIN HEATHCOTE
August 16, 2019 14:58 - 1 hour - 107 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Edwin Heathcote, the critic and writer. Edwin is the architecture critic for the FT, and an author of several books as well as the curator of an online resource celebrating the value of the written word in architecture (Reading Design). In this conversation we tease out the particular pressures on critics and discuss whether the golden age of architecture criticism may have passed. https://www.readingdesign.org/ --------- Credits: Register is ...
REGISTER - JULIAN HARRAP
July 31, 2019 21:27 - 1 hour - 104 MBIn this interview Andrew Clancy and Judi Farren Bradley interview Julian HARRAP. Julian is arguably the most distinguished conservation architect working in Europe today. In the work he completed with David Chipperfield on the Neues Museum he opened up a conversation about memory, authenticity and the abiding meaning of architecture in a highly nuanced manner. This work is of interest far beyond conservation circles of course, and I think it fair to say that this building has been one of ...
REGISTER - ELLY MOSAYEBI
July 04, 2019 23:55 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy and Matt Phillips interview Prof Elly Mosayebi The practice she runs with her partners (Ron Edelaar and Christin Idebitzin) works from a deep understanding of the plan as a source of invention in the making of beautifully resolved housing. By a first principle interrogation of inhabitation and occupation they can arrive at plans which frequently eschew conventional geometries - to make characterful, resonant, architecture which is deeply human, gently inhabita...
REGISTER - NIALL HOBHOUSE (DRAWING MATTER)
June 20, 2019 20:59 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBIn this podcast Mary Vaughan Johnson and Andrew Clancy interview Niall Hobhouse of Drawing Matter. Niall and his collection are such a valuable and important part of the contemporary architectural scene it is difficult to imagine it without this presence. Yet it is a rare and fragile thing. It is by no means obvious that a collection could be made which celebrates the doubts of creative production, and which reiterates the changing yet abiding value of the drawing as a site of critical en...
REGISTER - FEILDEN FOWLES
March 14, 2019 10:48 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Fergus and Edmund of Feilden Fowles Their practice is one which foregrounds craft, and the formal histories of the language of industrial and agricultural structures as a site for discovery and invention. Their hands on approach is probably most celebrated in their own studio, located as part of a campus of structures for Waterloo city farm. Despite the contingencies of budget (the client being a charity) and the need for the buildings to be rapidl...
REGISTER - CAROLINE VOET
February 13, 2019 16:55 - 1 hour - 94.3 MB—————— Before introducing this episode a quick mention of the free summer school for pre A- level students we run each summer with our partners. I talk a bit about this in the introduction - if you know anyone who might be interested there is more information here. http://kingstonarchitecture.london/architectural-drawing-summer-school-24-29-august-2019/ ———————- In this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Caroline Voet. Caroline joins us from Belgium where she works as an architect and an ac...
REGISTER - RYAN KENNIHAN
January 17, 2019 22:46 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Ryan Kennihan. Ryan is an architect, based in Dublin, and is leader of the thesis year in TU Dublin (formerly DIT Dublin School of Architecture) there. His practice is concerned with making buildings which act in continuity with typologies, forms and materials found in their physical context. These are translated through engagement with contemporary tectonics to make an expressive architecture in which structure, weathering and craft are consider...
REGISTER - MARIUS GROOTVELD (VELDWERK)
December 15, 2018 12:18 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBIn this episode Nana Biamah Ofasu interviews Marius Grootveld. Marius is a partner, along with Jantje Engels of the practice Veldwerk. Established in 2015, their practice is part of a broader movement in Flanders of practices interested in making work in weaving narratives from the contexts they are asked to make work. Representation, typology and precedent act as a site for investigation, and discovery. Restlessly passionate about architecture in its widest sense Marius also pursues thi...
REGISTER - SMITH TAYLOR
November 21, 2018 08:36 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MBIn this episode Ellis Woodman interviews Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor of Smith Taylor Architects. Ellis is director of the architecture foundation, and a valued thinker and writer about architecture. Jonathan and Timothy established their practice in 2010. In their practice and their teaching they investigate classicism, and its potential as a living language of architecture. They engage with this way of thinking, not through nostalgia or sentimentality, but with criticality. This...
REGISTER - HUGH CAMPBELL
October 30, 2018 00:08 - 55 minutes - 76 MBIn this episode we are joined by Prof Hugh Campbell Hugh is a writer, a curator and an educator. His research examines the the relationship between photography, architecture and built space and the visual culture of cities. His recent publications include the edited volume Architecture 1600- 2000, volume 4 of the RIAI/Yale UP production Art and Architecture of Ireland (2014); a special issue of Architecture and Culture on Architecture and Film, edited with Igea Troiani. Forthcoming are an...
REGISTER - JAUME MAYOL (TEd'A)
August 12, 2018 21:05 - 1 hour - 155 MBIn this episode Bushra Mohamed interviews Jaume Mayol who is a partner in TEd’A Arquitectos along with Irene Perez. Their practice, based in Mallorca is a territorial one, seeking to make its architecture from the lessons in the vernacular of the areas they build - both in the tectonics found there, and in the formal arrangements of elements. This sensibility is married to ideas which emerge from the canon, to produce a hybridity of grounded ideas rigorously resolved. A clear sophisticati...
REGISTER - AIRES MATEUS
August 02, 2018 09:38 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBIn this episode Bruno and Sylvester and Diego Calderon interview Manuel Rocha de Aires Mateus. His practice, which he established with his brother in Lisbon in 1988 represents another pole of the deep architectural culture of Portugal. In contrast with the work of the Porto School Lisbon architects engage with more abstracted reading of type and materiality. Aires Matues are among the best known proponents of this way of thinking. Externally their buildings tend to the monolithic, with ...
REGISTER - PRICEGORE
July 14, 2018 16:41 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBIn this episode Matt Wells interviews Dingle Price and Alex Gore of Pricegore Architects. Their practice, now in its fifth year, is among the more compelling recent arrivals in the UK. Much of the work of a young practice inevitably involves situations rife with uncertainty, contingency and the need to use minimal means. In this context it is remarkable that the core concerns of the practice are already so clearly and consistently established and interrogated. In common with many of the...
REGISTER - FLORIS DE BRUYN (GAFPA)
April 04, 2018 19:55 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Floris de Bruyn, one of three partners in the Belgian practice GAFPA. GAFPA's is concerned with a careful unpicking of the contexts in which their buildings are situated and in they way that they are then made. This contextual read does not extend only to the physical site, but to todays vernacular of mass produced standardised building components. This is all governed by an underlying connection with the deep architectural currents of type and arch...
REGISTER - CAT ROSSI
March 07, 2018 14:03 - 1 hour - 138 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Dr Cat Rossi. Cat is a design historian, with a socially and politically engaged approach to researching and communicating design history. Consistently provocative, insightful and nimble in her ability to weave multiple narratives, Cats work allows new light to be cast on the areas she explores. In this conversation she takes us us on a lyrical tour of the design history of Nightclubs, and their relationship to broader architectural currents, with...
REGISTER - BEATE HOLMEBAKK (MANTHEY KULA)
February 08, 2018 15:25 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBIn this episode Hugh Strange interviews Beate Holmebakk of Mathey Kula Architects to speak about her work, and that of her practice. Beate is a leading figure in Norwegian architectural practice and education. Her practice has made a singular position with works that seek to establish a resonant formal presence within the remarkable landscapes in which they are situated. In considering the lineage for this work it comes as no surprise that Beate studied with Sverre Fehn and John Hejduk am...
REGISTER - DONAGHY DIMOND
December 29, 2017 21:54 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBIn this episode Aoife Donnelly interviews Marcus Donaghy and Will Dimond of Donaghy Dimond Architects. Donaghy Dimonds work is characterised by robust, elemental massing which is then inhabited and tuned with a meticulous level of attention to the details of how it is made. They appear to be constantly seeking opportunities where the matter of the building can be tuned to support inhabitation - be it in how a doorway might be a good place to sit in the sun, or in how a window in a class...
REGISTER - JOB FLORIS (MONADNOCK)
November 06, 2017 09:40 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews Job Floris, a partner with Sandor Naus in Monadnock Architects, a practice based in Rotterdam. Their buildings possesses a formal intensity which is leavened with careful attention to their materiality. Their buildings sit at ease with their place in the living tradition of European architecture and yet speak of our current time, and the ambiguities of contemporary tectonics. In their practice the history of architecture is seen as a place for inven...
REGISTER - TOM DE PAOR
August 21, 2017 09:05 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews the architect and educator Tom de Paor. Tom graduated from UCD in 1991, and established his practice that same year. Since this time he has cut a singular path, establishing a clear position through work which seeks to communicate spatially and in detail regardless of programme or location. In the work process narrative, reference, and material are frequently interwoven and infected by sensitivity to context, the material experience of construction ...
REGISTER - TONY FRETTON
July 04, 2017 22:31 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy interviews the architect and educator Tony Fretton. Since establishing his practice in 1982, and by example and instruction Tony has persistently made the case for the value of quiet and thoughtful architecture. This thinking was made powerfully manifest in his ambiguous masterpiece - the Lisson Gallery - makes a reading of its London context which is at once lyrical and scholarly, and does so in a manner respectful of its programme as a small gallery, and it...
REGISTER - MAUD COTTER
May 23, 2017 07:28 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBIn this episode we are joined by the sculptor Maud Cotter. Maud's work, frequently exquisitely made from every day materials explores space, and the relational potential of space beyond the closed question of resolution. Her ability to articulate 'open questions' in her work and work process makes her an inspirational critic and speaker, who gets to the heart of what is involved in producing a sustainable creative practice in art or architecture. Writing of her work to date she says "We ...
REGISTER - MATHESON WHITELEY
April 17, 2017 23:29 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBIn this episode we are joined by Donald Matheson and Jason Whiteley. They set up their practice in London in 2012, after some years working for Tony Fretton and Herzog & deMeuron. Theirs is an architecture of minimal means. They have a careful eye for latent possibilities in the fabric where they work, and many of their projects find their language in these observations. They build on these with typological references and an unsentimental engagement with the realities of contemporary const...
REGISTER - HANS KOLLHOFF
April 10, 2017 23:23 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this episode we are joined by Hans Kollhoff, who we invited to Kingston to do a workshop with unit 6 of our M.Arch, and to give a register lecture. Prof Kollhoff teaches in the ETH, and practices from Berlin in partnership with Helga Timmermann. Kollhoffs life work might be described as a quest for meaning and language in contemporary archtiecture. Writing of the Piraeus building in 1995 he said “Under the economic pressure to create something optimal in every respect, every...
REGISTER - LUTJENS PADMANABHAN
April 03, 2017 22:54 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBIn this episode we are joined by Oliver Lutyens and Thomas Padmanabhan. The work of their practice is thoughtful and scholarly, and yet open minded and lyrical. In teasing out the fundamental tension between façade and plan they have developed a characterful and playful expressive language through a series of modest residential developments. Invested in a deep knowledge of the history of architecture, they critically examine contemporary tectonics in a search for an appropriate civic langua...
REGISTER - ELIZABETH HATZ
March 27, 2017 18:57 - 1 hour - 93.1 MBIn this episode we are joined by Prof Elizabeth Hatz, of the KTH in Stockholm and SAUL in Limerick. Her early built projects enjoy a lightness of touch, grounded in the deep Swedish culture of architecture and yet playful and ambiguously figurative. Her teaching gained attention for the deep connection she makes between drawing and thinking, and it is this territory she has worked in in recent years. A wide range of practitioners value her voice in drawing out the latent qualities of dra...
REGISTER - TERUNOBU FUJIMORI
March 19, 2017 22:40 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBIn this episode we are joined by Prof Terunobu Fujimori and Takeshi Hayatsu. Their collaboration through the work of Unit 5 here in Kingston (run by Takeshi) is reaching a culmination this year with the making of a Japanese teahouse for the Barbican Japanese House exhibition. In this discussion we talk about how Prof Fujimori started to make buildings, and the challenges he faces as he now works on progressively larger works. We talk about the value of theory and criticism, and about the t...
REGISTER - DAVID GRANDORGE
March 14, 2017 11:56 - 1 hour - 165 MBIn this episode we are joined by David Grandorge - an architect, photographer and academic living and working in London. As a photographer he undertakes commissioned work, collaborating with architects, artists and art institutions. He also makes work independently. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including the Venice (2008) and Prague (2005) biennales and has been published internationally in magazines, journals and books. He has written several published articles on archite...
REGISTER - CRISPIN KELLY
March 06, 2017 22:25 - 54 minutes - 95.4 MBIn this episode we are joined by the Developer, Historian and Architect Crispin Kelly. Crispin is a developer with a deep understanding of architecture, most evidenced by his studies at the AA, but more pertinently by the space he has made for thoughtful work in the risky and contested world of private development. His willingness to personally back talented architects in the making of small and medium scale work gives him an insight into our discipline tempered by the contingencies of econ...
REGISTER - FLORES PRATS
February 26, 2017 21:37 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy is joined by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats of Flores Prats Architects. (NOTE: During the conversation we have an extended conversation about their Casa Balaguer project - being able to refer to the drawings and images might be useful to understand this part! http://www.floresprats.com/archive/palau_balaguer/) Flores Prats work with a lyrical precision, working into and out of the contexts where it is sited. Sites are read formally and culturally with memory an...
REGISTER - DYVIK KAHLEN
February 20, 2017 17:23 - 47 minutes - 55.4 MBIn this episode Andrew Clancy is joined by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen of Dyvik Kahlen Architects. Their London based office was established in 2010 and operates across various scales and sectors in the UK, Holland, Germany and Norway, collaborating with clients ranging from public institutions and developers to artists, curators and private individuals. Underlying their work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and strangely familiar, as much as a fascination for ...
REGISTER - AN INTRODUCTION
February 04, 2017 13:07 - 9 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this first episode Eleanor Suess and Andrew Clancy introduce the Register podcast, which is a new initiative from our department of Architecture and Landscape in Kingston. Our school is one invested in acting in continuity with architectural culture, and in cultivating practitioners who make work in a thoughtful manner, attuned to the social and physical contexts where they work. This podcast will host a diverse range of conversations with people who visit our school. Some will be p...