A combined television and newspaper interview with Brett, by Ju-Kwang Park, UK reporter for the YTN 24 Hour News Channel, and Choi Boyun, Staff Writer from the Entertainment Desk of The Chosunilbo Daily. The interview is part of a story the channel and newspaper are preparing now for their cultural affairs programmes, and will be […]
—London: AJ
‘What Planet are they From?’
‘What Planet are they from?’ is the Front-page Headline of this week’s Architect’s Journal. The subtitle says it succintly: ‘The AA’s Design Research Laboratory, now 10 years old, has changed the language of architecture forever’. ‘Digital Generation’ is the title of an article by Jaffer Kolb in the 21.02.08 issue of the magazine, which […]
—La Coruna, Spain
‘Wrapping Space & Wearable Architecture’
My essay on An_D’s thesis design project completed at the AA in January 2007 is included in the newly-published AN_D: Deployable Emergency System (Netbiblo: Spain). AN_D’s project, for rapidly-reconfigurable aid stations for the 2012 Olympics in London brings together several strands of research in the AA’s DRL programme during the past several years, including […]
—Whitehall
‘Schools as Cultural Hubs’
Remarks on Architectural Education & Creativity
Presented at the Westminster Media Forum Keynote Session ‘UK Creativity’, in Whitehall (London)
Thank you for inviting me to this Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar, and this session on Education, training and the UK’s future creative talent.
My theme today will be how to FOSTER creativity in higher education, and the […]
—London
Interview: ‘Architecture Now’
An interview with the Wall Street Journal this morning, for an article the newspaper is preparing on the world-wide boom of architecture, urbanism and its challenges to conventional architectural education. Once published, the WSJ will send me a link I will post to the online version of the story, which is surveying the changes cities […]
—Seville
‘Five Questions’
The first couple of slides from Brett’s Lecture in Seville: ‘Learning: Architecture’.
Brett’s closing keynote lecture at the Universidad Sevilla School of Architecture was presented in the form of five questions about what it means to be an architectural student, or school, in an age of continuous learning, global architectural culture, and distributed design and communication […]
—3rd Year AA HTS
‘Arch as Manifesto’
My fourth and final lecture as part of this Spring Term’s ‘Architecture from Discipline to Cutlure’ course. An hour on the topic of architectural publications, magazines and other documents, and the way in which these have shaped twentieth-century architectural culture.
—Geneva
‘L’architecture mal aimée?’
Brett interviewed by Nelly Wegner in the February 4 edition of the Geneva-based newspaper ‘Le Temps’. Titled ‘L’architecture contemporaine est-elle mal aimée?, the interview discusses especially client-architect partnerships, and the often-overlooked importance of creative clients as well the the ‘expanded’ field of consultants and others that make great projects possible. An online version of […]