Jun

Architects Beyond Architecture

by RIBA

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Tue, 15 June 2021

17:00 – 18:30 BST

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In this talk we will focus on architects working beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline to develop socially motivated projects.

About this event

Join us for this fourth event in the Architecture Anew talk series, a new season of RIBA + VitrA talks, bringing people together to discuss new ideas about the role of architecture in designing a more sustainable future.

Architectural training provides a wide range of skills that makes architects uniquely suited to developing creative projects far beyond just the design of buildings. From mapping terrains and communities, to developing revolutionary apps, creating documentary films and undertaking radical fieldwork, architects are increasingly utilising their varied skillsets to develop humanitarian projects.

This event is part of the 2021 London Festival of Architecture.

Speakers

Mark E Breeze is an architect and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who combines interdisciplinary practice, research, teaching, and environmental design advocacy. Working at the intersection of architecture and film his current work explores the theories, practices, and forms of sustainable shelter. Mark will talk about the documentary film Shelter without Shelter.

Credit: Mark E Breeze

Forensic Architecture (FA) - Kishan San is an architectural researcher, designer and educator and currently he works as a Researcher at FA. FA is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists, to legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence.

Warehouse 12 interior photomatch. Photograph published by the New York Times. The Beirut Port Explosion (2020), Forensic Architecture.

Lindsay Bremner is a research architect whose current work focuses on human-more-than-human entanglements in oceanic worlds. She currently holds a European Research Council grant for Monsoon Assemblages about which she will be speaking. She is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster in London, where she is Director of Research in the School of Architecture and Cities.

Credit: Lindsay Bremner for Monsoon Assemblages

Chris Hildrey is an award-winning architect who developed ProxyAddress to tackle systemic issues faced by those facing homelessness and believes that good design should be socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable. Chris has been named a Big Issue Changemaker, an RIBA Rising Star, a Designer in Residence of the Design Museum. In 2018 he was awarded the RIBA President’s Medal for Research.

Credit: Chris Hildrey

Chairs

Harriet Harriss is an architect and dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in New York. Her teaching, research and writing focus upon pioneering new and inclusive pedagogical models for design education. She is a co-editor of the book Architects after Architecture.

Roberta Marcaccio is an editor and an educator at the Architectural Association in London. Her writings on historical as well as emerging modes of practice have featured on Architectural Design, AA Files, Blueprint and in the books Real Estates: Life Without Debt (2014) and Erasmus Effect (2014). She is a co-editor of the book Architects after Architecture.

Lead image credit: Christina Geros for Monsoon Assemblages

Further event information

Following the speakers’ conversation there will be time for questions from the audience. This lecture will be digitally streamed and available globally. The weblink to join the event will be shared with all ticket holders in the lead up to the event.

This activity can count towards your CPD requirements.

Architecture Anew is a RIBA + VitrA Partnership.

This partnership reflects a shared commitment to add social, economic and cultural value to society, and VitrA Bathrooms are proud to be supporting such an inspiring programme.

With innovation at its core, a global reach and a tradition of collaborating with celebrated architects and designers, the VitrA bathroom brand has become a world leader, synonymous with contemporary sophistication since the mid-1900s.

Find out more about the other events in this series.

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