This short essay discusses some of the issues Tom and I have been looking at with regards to the interaction of the people/urban environment. Looking at the ideas of regional identity and place (region) being a culturally constructed concept. Therefore it is the holding of a shared identity or set of cultural practices, which can be informed and transformed over the history of an area.
'performed identities and these are often acted out on a certain architectural stage engendering an attachment to a particular place of (micro)region'.
Is the trajectory of the design work within the studio currently tracking the cumulative conditions which have resulted in a specific microregion within the city?
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Monday 1 March 2010
Nicholas Grimshaw Lecture - 1st March 2010
'Capturing the concept: The Sketchbooks of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA from 1982 to 2007'
The lecture charted a number of projects, with live projected drawing from Nicholas Grimshaw of his stratagies for some of his major projects. He described how he tries to hold a concept down, taking it from a 'napkin sketch' to a detailed (expressed through the details) design. He revels in the enginnering knowhow and 'joy' of the structure.
The lecture charted a number of projects, with live projected drawing from Nicholas Grimshaw of his stratagies for some of his major projects. He described how he tries to hold a concept down, taking it from a 'napkin sketch' to a detailed (expressed through the details) design. He revels in the enginnering knowhow and 'joy' of the structure.
- Sainsbury Supermarket, London
- rythum/grain/texture of the building was gained from the technology of the structure and imposed grid.
- Financial Times Printworks, London
- dispaying of teh mashinery of the factory. Having the full efect of the building held within one element, the massive window.
- Eden Project
- '[the structure] weighs less than the air it encloses...[there was] worry about it blowing away'
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