Cast, Conceive, Cut: Materials and Production
Wednesday 22 October 2014 6.30 - 8pm
Burlington Gardens
£10. Concessions £5.
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Explore the impact of new innovations in materials on architecture in the second event in our ‘Meaning in Material’ series.
Crossing the analogue and digital, a panel of speakers discuss how the development of new materials, or new use, production and fabrication might inform the evolution of architecture.
Panel:
Peter Oakley (researcher in the School of Material at the Royal College of Art)
Guan Lee (founder of the architectural practice Grymsdyke Farm and tutor at the Royal College of Art)
Alexis Harrison (designer and materials specialist at Arup)
Chaired and introduced by Mollie Claypool (BSc Architecture Programme Leader, Bartlett)
About the Series
Materials give architecture its form and substance, with implications on both conceptual and experiential levels. In what ways can a discussion about materials evolve and remain relevant today, particularly as ‘value engineering’ takes an ever-increasing role in building design and construction. How might this discussion be shaped by new developments in material technologies, or by emerging economic, environmental and cultural factors.
Artist, engineers, historians, theorists and architects consider these questions across a programme of salons, happenings and displays, to interrogate the contemporary relationship between architecture and materials.
Organised by the RA Architecture Programme in collaboration with P.E.A.R (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research).
See here for other events in our Meaning in Material series.