Ahead of my Diploma Course next autumn, I’m outlining eight lectures on the topic of architectural portfolios: how architects collect, collate & present; their drawings, documents and other materials.
—Polenza
‘Prototyping the City’
In the beautiful small town of Polenza, outside of Turin, at the world-famous Institute of Gastronomy (the world centre of the ’slow food’ movement), just long enough for Bernard Cache & me to give short talks at the conclusion of the World City of Design Festival workshops.
My ‘Prototyping the City’ presentation does what the title […]
—September 5, 2008
Lund, Sweden
‘Architecture must Burn’, a lecture coinciding with an annual session in Lund on the (optimistic) topic of how we make a ‘positive’ school of architecture today.
—22 June, 2008
AA Projects Review 2008 ‘Schools Strike Back’
My preface to this year’s Projects Review book documenting our end-of-year exhibition includes plenty of words not normally found in the language of contemporary architectural culture: tradition, permanency, mass and weight. At more than 500 pages, our biggest Projects Review every. It’s out and on sale beginning a week Friday, on the 4th of July, […]
—June, 2008
‘Schools Strike Back’
A front-page article by Liz Bury & Rory Olcayto in the June 13 issue of Building Design includes Brett’s comments on the current state of architectural education in the UK.
—August 5, 2008
Pagu Book City, Korea
‘Urban Divides’ is the title of a short talk that will be given at the AA Visiting School’s summer programme working on a new nation occupying the demilitarised zone seperating North & South Korea.
—July 9, 2008
London
A day off, spent with Stella Bella at the London Aquarium. No lectures, no talks, no diagrams. Lots of brightly-coloured fish.