Summer 2009
Lucy Tauber - 'Waste'
Friday 19 June
East London architect, Lucy Tauber, talks about 'Waste', her submission to this year’s Summer Exhibition. This sculptural piece – a segment of a building of the future – interrogates the nature of how we build and what buildings contribute to the everyday nature of our urban environment. Read more
Foster + Partners: Narinder Sagoo
Friday 26 June
In the Summer Exhibition's Architecture Room, Narinder Sagoo describes his journey to Sierra Leone and the Foster + Partners design of a new prototype school for the country using local materials and craftsmanship. Read more
AOC: Tom Coward and Vincent Lacovara
Friday 10 July
In the Summer Exhibition's Architecture Room, directors of young architectural practice AOC, Tom Coward and Vincent Lacovara, discuss an additive, unfolding, unflapping approach to design using a project for the refurbishment of a Victorian school as a prop. Read more
ANNUAL ARCHITECTURE LECTURE
Snøhetta - Works
13 July 2009
Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen, co-founders of Norwegian architectural practice Snøhetta and designers of Oslo's acclaimed new National Opera & Ballet House, deliver this year's Annual Architecture Lecture. Read more