Register - Architecture & Landscape
We are interested in what it takes to make thoughtful work in architecture today. In this podcast we speak with practitioners, planners, developers and others who visit our school about their motivations and methodologies.
Episodes
REGISTER - CÉLINE BAUMANN
In this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with Céline Baumann about her work as a landscape architect, an educator, and a teacher.
Céline is a French landscape architect based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work has been exhibited at Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, Matadero in Madrid, the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Oslo Architecture Triennale. She has been
REGISTER - DKCM - DAVID KNIGHT AND CRISTINA MONTEIRO
In this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with David Knight and Cristina Monteiro of DK-CM architects. Their practice is one concerned with the public in many forms. Often their clients are public bodies, their work is very much for the public, and they often seek to incorporate these public voices into their design processes. In many ways they carry a tradition here with a long lineage in architecture
REGISTER - JONATHAN SERGISON (SERGISON BATES)
In this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with Professor Jonathan Sergison about his work as a writer, an educator, and architect.
Jonathan established Sergison Bates Architects together with Stephen Bates in the mid-1990's, and the practice quickly gained a reputation for the manner with which it could find meaning in the actualities of contemporary construction, and in the care with which they read
REGISTER - STEPHANIE MACDONALD - (6A Architects)
In this episode Andrew Clancy speaks with Stephanie MacDonald
Staphanie is a founding partner, with Tom Emerson, of the London based practice 6a. Their practice works from a deep reading of the sites they work on - a process that incorporates ecology, people and place as ways to build a narrative that guides the projects formation. The work has been published extensively including monographs from
REGISTER - KERSTEN GEERS (OFFICE KGDVS)
In 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 read
REGISTER - ANNA MINTON
In 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
REGISTER - JO TAILLIEU
In 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
REGISTER - MARILYNE ANDERSEN
In 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 hum
REGISTER - HERMANSSON HILLER LUNDBERG
In 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
REGISTER - MILINDA PATHIRAJA
In 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 - eschew
REGISTER - GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
In 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 gat
REGISTER - SIMON HENLEY
In 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 exploratio
REGISTER - CATHY HAWLEY
In 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
REGISTER - NICHOLAS OLSBERG
In 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 e
REGISTER - ALBA DI LIETO & WILLIAM WHITAKER
In 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 w
REGISTER - 3144
In 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 w
REGISTER - ODONNELL + TUOMEY
In 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
REGISTER - ALVARO SIZA (EPISODE 1)
In 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 Siz
REGISTER - TAKA
In 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 physi
REGISTER - GUNTHER VOGT
In 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 scientif
REGISTER - AMIN TAHA
In 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, h
REGISTER - EDWIN HEATHCOTE
In 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 architectu
REGISTER - JULIAN HARRAP
In 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 beyo
REGISTER - ELLY MOSAYEBI
In 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
REGISTER - NIALL HOBHOUSE (DRAWING MATTER)
In 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 produc
REGISTER - FEILDEN FOWLES
In 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
REGISTER - CAROLINE VOET
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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/
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In this episode Andrew Clancy int
REGISTER - RYAN KENNIHAN
In 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 t
REGISTER - MARIUS GROOTVELD (VELDWERK)
In 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
REGISTER - SMITH TAYLOR
In 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 engag
REGISTER - HUGH CAMPBELL
In 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 o
REGISTER - JAUME MAYOL (TEd'A)
In 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 fr
REGISTER - AIRES MATEUS
In 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 kn
REGISTER - PRICEGORE
In 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
REGISTER - FLORIS DE BRUYN (GAFPA)
In 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
REGISTER - CAT ROSSI
In 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
REGISTER - BEATE HOLMEBAKK (MANTHEY KULA)
In 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 lin
REGISTER - DONAGHY DIMOND
In 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
REGISTER - JOB FLORIS (MONADNOCK)
In 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 co
REGISTER - TOM DE PAOR
In 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 frequ
REGISTER - TONY FRETTON
In 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 lyri
REGISTER - MAUD COTTER
In 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 s
REGISTER - MATHESON WHITELEY
In 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 wit
REGISTER - HANS KOLLHOFF
In 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
REGISTER - LUTJENS PADMANABHAN
In 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 archite
REGISTER - ELIZABETH HATZ
In 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
REGISTER - TERUNOBU FUJIMORI
In 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
REGISTER - DAVID GRANDORGE
In 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 inter
REGISTER - CRISPIN KELLY
In 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
REGISTER - FLORES PRATS
In 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
REGISTER - DYVIK KAHLEN
In 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
REGISTER - AN INTRODUCTION
In 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 pod
