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Building Design

Building Design

EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY: BUILDING AS LANDSCAPE (DOMINIQUE PERRAULT)

Leading French architect Dominique Perrault moved onto the world stage with the completion of the French National Library in 1989. With a portfolio that spans major public buildings, apartment blocks, hotels, offices and master plans, his design for an Olympic Village helped Paris win its bid for the 2024 Games.

In this talk, Dominique Perrault discusses his new campus centre for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. Challenging the client's competition brief, he blended the building into the landscape to connect the campus to the city and create a new public park and, inadvertently, a space for political protest. As Perrault explains, his design for Ewha grew out of his ongoing interest in underground architecture which began with the French National Library.

CD-ROM / 2017 / 46 minutes

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FANGSHAN TANGSHAN NATIONAL GEOPARK (ODILE DECQ)

Odile Decq first came to prominence in 1990 with the completion of Banque Populaire de L'Ouest in Rennes, designed with her late husband and partner Benoit Cornette. In recent years, she has completed the extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (2010), The Phantom Restaurant at the Opera Garnier in Paris (2011), FRAC Bretagne Contemporary Art Museum in Rennes (2012), the renovation of Antti Lovag's bubble house Maison Bernard in France (2016) and Le Cargo office space for tech start-ups in Paris (2016). In 2016, she was awarded the Jane Drew prize for women in architecture.

In this talk, Decq discusses her Fangshan Tangshan National Geopark Museum in Nanjing China (2014). Inspired by the way bondage accentuates the curves of the female body, she designed a building that responds to and exaggerates the existing landscape with a central atrium that varies floor to floor to challenge the prescriptive circulation of traditional museums.

CD-ROM / 2017 / 20 minutes

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FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, THE: AIMING HIGH WITH SUSTAINABLE DESIGN (MATTHIAS SAUERBRUCH & LOUISA HUTTON)

Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton set up Sauerbruch Hutton in 1989, now based in Berlin. Their best known buildings include the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, for which they were nominated for the Stirling Prize in 2000.

In this talk they focus on the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, completed in 2005. With its mix of low-tech materials and high-tech production processes, the building was designed to showcase the best in sustainable architecture.

Hutton and Sauerbruch describe the development of the building's curvilinear plan along the route of an old railway line, and their use of colour, a constant in their work; how any sustainable building is only as efficient as the people who inhabit it; and how a concern for environmental efficiency has been a running thread through their work, from their Photonics Centre Berlin in 1998, through Museum Brandhorst, 2008, Munich Re, 2014, and the soon to be completed M9 Museum in Venice-Metre.

DVD-ROM / 2016 / 51 minutes

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LEADENHALL BUILDING, THE: THE SERVANT & THE SERVED (GRAHAM STIRK)

Graham Stirk is a senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, having first joined the practice in 1983 when it was titled the Richard Rogers Partnership. As principal architect on buildings that include the office scheme 88 Wood Street, the luxury residential building One Hyde Park, two airports and a winery, he helps steer the design direction of the practice.

Here Stirk discusses The Leadenhall Building - a speculative office tower in London's financial district. The tower is inclined along the south side to avoid blocking a key view of St Paul's Cathedral, with core services housed in a vertical "cassette" on the north side. The concept of distinct served and servant spaces, borrowed from Louis Kahn, recurs throughout the work of the practice. Stirk also explores the challenges of building across the street from the Lloyd's Register of Shipping - the first building he worked on after graduation and, in contrast to Leadenhall, one of the most bespoke office buildings on the planet - and explains the 11 year lag between commission and completion.

CD-ROM / 2015 / 40 minutes

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BREAKING INTO CHINA: FENGMING MOUNTAIN PARK (MARTHA SCHWARTZ)

Martha Schwartz first came to prominence with her Boston bagel garden - a radical manifesto for a more artful approach to landscape design. Her recent projects include Dublin Docklands Grand Canal Square in Dublin, Mesa Arts Centre in Arizona and Jacob Javits Convention Center Plaza, New York.

In this talk, she describes her project Fengming Mountain Park in the Chinese city Chongqing for a major Chinese developer. The project is a rectangular section cut through a large construction site, designed to showcase the sales centre for a series of forthcoming residential towers. Building on the idea of zigzagging movement of water down a mountain, she has created a processional route across the site, marked by a series of monumental orange cut-steel structures - like origami mountains on legs - that glow at night.

This is a truly exciting time to be working in China, she says, with construction taking place on an epic scale and developers just beginning to appreciate landscape architecture as art-form.

CD-ROM / 2014 / 48 minutes

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MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART (KEITH BRADLEY)

Keith Bradley is senior partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio, based in Bath, UK. Bradley led FCBS's best known work, the Stirling Prize-winning Accordia Housing Project in Cambridge. He's also worked on major urban regeneration schemes, public museums, galleries and academic buildings.

In this talk, Bradley explores FCBS's Manchester School Of Art extension building, completed in April 2013. He discusses the evolution of the design, which includes a vertical gallery space where students can showcase their work, an interactive hybrid studio intended to foster creative collaboration between students from different disciplines and triple height columns with a relief cast decorative detail inspired by the textiles of Lewis Day, who taught at the school a century ago. Manchester School Of Art was shortlisted for the 2014 Stirling Prize.

CD-ROM / 2014 / 37 minutes

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CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: ALISTAIR MCALPINE (ALISTAIR MCALPINE)

Alistair McAlpine started working for the family building firm Sir Robert McAlpine at the age of sixteen. After his first job on Howard Robinson's Shell Centre on London's South Bank, he want on to work with many of the pre-eminent architects of the post war era: Denis Lasdun, Basil Spence and YRM. His close relationship with Cedric Price spanned many decades, until the latter's death in 2003.

In this talk, McAlpine recalls being summoned by Lasdun during building of the National Theatre and his attempt to matchmake Price with Richard Seifert. He discusses commissioning Classical architect Quinlan Terry to design a series of follies for his personal estate, and his concerns about the current London building boom.

CD-ROM / 2013 / 31 minutes

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HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?

Director: Norberto Lopez Amado & Carlos Carcas

A portrait of one of the world's premier architects, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? follows Norman Foster's unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By revealing his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects like the world's largest building and its tallest bridge, Foster offers some striking solutions to humanity's increasing demand on urban centers.

DVD / 2011 / 78 minutes

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NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING & THE SHARD (RENZO PIANO)

Renzo Piano discusses two tall building projects - the New York Times Building in Manhattan and The Shard in Southwark, London.

He describes the drivers of each of the designs and the reasons why they have resulted in such very different forms.

CD-ROM / 2007 / 31 minutes

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BUILDING COMPOUND SHAPES (FRANK GEHRY)

Since the last recorded Frank Gehry his architectural language has developed enormously. Charles Jencks calls him "the Picasso of architecture, picking up one new idea after another." While James Steel says "he is the lodestone which others use to navigate whether in similar or opposite directions... Sometime muse to successive generation of architects". Gehry relates his individual style to strong personal links with the American art world. He fights against symmetry and is the master of unfinished surfaces, colliding geometries and dislocated shapes. But he is a maker of spaces first, sculpture second. In his recorded talk he states his delight in pursuing the idea of movement using inert materials to build compound shapes. Over the years he has learned how to perfect and, what is more, how to build them economically. It is a fascinating story.

CD-ROM / 1997 / 32 minutes

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PUTTING BUILDINGS TOGETHER (RAB BENNETTS)

Rab Bennetts has always been concerned with the function of buildings, with the way buildings are put together, and with architectural space. He develops these three themes in some depth in his talk, illustrating them with three office buildings he has completed; though offices are by no means the only category of building he has worked on.

It was because of his interest in the relationship between space and structure and services that he worked for Arup Associates after leaving Heriot Watt University, staying for ten years, most of that time with Peter Foggo - whom he considered a "fantastic architect" - and in the company of engineers, quantity surveyors, and other architects. With them he learned how the concrete structure of a building, if exposed, had the effect of damping down the internal climate and radiating coolness at the time of great heat outside. Structure led to architectural expression.

In 1987, Bennetts set up his own firm in London and was immediately invited to work on a new building near Reading, the Imperium. This led, in 1991, to his being approached by Powergen to design their headquarters.

Bennetts' recent completed office building is for John Menzies in Edinburgh. Designed around an atrium it further develops his ideas for light and ventilation to suit the cooler northern climate.

CD-ROM / 1996 / 39 minutes

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BUILDING CASE STUDY 3 - MUSEUM: MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, LONDON PART 1 (BRYAN AVERY & JOHN DAWSON)

Taking part in this discussion were:

Client: Leslie Hardcastle (Curator, MOMI/British Film Institute)

Architect: Bryan Avery (Avery Associates), John Dawson (Job Architect)

Planner: Peter Rees (City Planning Officer, City of London Corporation)

Structural Engineer: Alan Jones (YRM/Anthony Hunt Associates)

Services Engineer: John Case (Voce Case & Partners)

Acoustics: Howard Gwatkin (Bickerdike Allen Partners)

Quantity Surveyor: David Stevens (Northcroft Neighbour & Nicholson)

Management Contractor: Les Chatfield (Divisional Managing Director, Bovis Construction Ltd.)

Everyone present agreed that this job was extremely difficult. The site was under Waterloo Bridge, to which nothing was to be connected. It was difficult to find space for foundations. There was no brief for the architects to work to. Funding had to be raised as the building grew. And so on.

Despite everything, this attractive and popular film museum, an extension to the National Film Theatre, revealed itself in 1989. Its story is told in the recording, which was made in the National Film Theatre (hence "noises off").

CD-ROM / 1993 / 29 minutes

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BUILDING CASE STUDY 3 - MUSEUM: MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, LONDON PART 2 (BRYAN AVERY & JOHN DAWSON)

Taking part in this discussion were:

Client: Leslie Hardcastle (Curator, MOMI/British Film Institute)

Architect: Bryan Avery (Avery Associates), John Dawson (Job Architect)

Planner: Peter Rees (City Planning Officer, City of London Corporation)

Structural Engineer: Alan Jones (YRM/Anthony Hunt Associates)

Services Engineer: John Case (Voce Case & Partners)

Acoustics: Howard Gwatkin (Bickerdike Allen Partners)

Quantity Surveyor: David Stevens (Northcroft Neighbour & Nicholson)

Management Contractor: Les Chatfield (Divisional Managing Director, Bovis Construction Ltd.)

Everyone present agreed that this job was extremely difficult. The site was under Waterloo Bridge, to which nothing was to be connected. It was difficult to find space for foundations. There was no brief for the architects to work to. Funding had to be raised as the building grew. And so on.

Despite everything, this attractive and popular film museum, an extension to the National Film Theatre, revealed itself in 1989. Its story is told in the recording, which was made in the National Film Theatre (hence "noises off").

CD-ROM / 1993 / 32 minutes

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BUILDING CASE STUDY 4 - HOSPITAL: MID-KENT ONCOLOGY CENTRE, MAIDSTONE (MOYA POWELL)

A cancer treatment centre, added to an existing hospital, is the fourth of Pidgeon's Building Case Studies, in which the development of a building is discussed by all those concerned with its design and construction.

The main requirements of the project related to the shortest time-scale to bring the centre on stream in 1993, at the same time using the most advanced equipment and diagnosis. The building won an RIBA Award in 1993.

The recorded discussion took place in Powell Moya's Chelsea office, hence some background sounds. The speakers were:

Roger Burr, Architect Partner/Powell Moya Partnership

Andrew Mason, Project Architect/Powell Moya Partnership

Jeremy Leyer, Landscape Architect

Chris Baxter, Services Engineer/R.W. Gregory

Ian W.Menzies, Structural Engineer/Charles Weiss Partnership

Gerald Stone, Project Manager/AYH Health

Anthony Field, Quantity Surveyor/AYH Partnership

Wendy Pitts, Project Manager/J. Mowlem Construction

CD-ROM / 1993 / 59 minutes

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BUILDING CASE STUDY 1 - GOVERNMENT OFFICES: INLAND REVENUE BUILDING, SCOTLAND (TOM JESTICO)

The Inland Revenue building in Callendar Park, Falkirk, Scotland, is the first of Pidgeon's Building Case Studies, in which the development of a building is discussed by members of its multi-disciplinary design team, from the brief, through the design and construction processes, to eventual completion.

The Inland Revenue building, won in competition in 1988 by Jestico & Whiles and Ithaca Estates, was subject of a fast- track management contract. Work started on site in January 1991, and was completed in December 1991, on time and on budget.

This discussion took place in the architects' London office. Taking part were the architect Tom Jestico, the structural engineer Nick Hanniker (Price & Myers), the landscape architect Mark van Grieken (Land Use Consultants) and the management contractor David Spiller (M.J. Gleeson Group).

The programme was produced and edited by Monica Pidgeon.

Note: We apologise for the sound quality of this talk. This is due to an originally poor recording, combined with the acoustics of the room in which the talk was recorded.

CD-ROM / 1992 / 43 minutes

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BUILDING CASE STUDY 2 - SHOPPING MALL: KINGSTON, SURREY (BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP)

The Bentall Centre which encloses the mall is in Kingston, Surrey. To build it involved demolition and some preservation as well as the new building. It was a fast-track construction programme executed under a management contract over five years, and was completed in November 1992, on time and on budget.

The recording was made in the London office of Building Design Partnership. Taking part in the discussion were BDP's partner in charge Richard Allen, project architect William Morwood, structural engineer Don Peachey, services engineer David Murrell, and lighting specialist Barry Wilde; together with quantity surveyor Mike Sullivan (Ryder Hunt & Partners) and project manager Paul Young (Mowlem Management).

They follow each phase of the building's progress, from the brief, through the design and construction processes, to eventual completion.

CD-ROM / 1992 / 44 minutes

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CONSERVING ENERGY IN BUILDING (MAX FORDHAM)

Max Fordham is senior partner of Max Fordham & Partners, a practice involved in many award-winning designs. Educated at Cambridge (physics) and the National College of Heating and Ventilation Engineers, he then worked with Weatherfoil and Ove Arup & Partners before setting up his own practice in London in 1966.

He is a Chartered Engineer, has published many papers, teaches at the AA School, and is a Visiting Professor at Bath University.

The amount of light and heat inside a building is one of the main things that affect the amount of energy used by the building. How to control and conserve these under different circumstances and climates and in different sorts of buildings is what concerns Fordham in this talk.

CD-ROM / 1992 / 39 minutes

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INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS (MIKE DAVIES)

The British architect Mike Davies studied architecture at the AA School of Architecture and at UCLA. While in Los Angeles, he was a partner in Chrysalis, a multi-disciplinary design practice. In 1972 he joined Piano & Rogers to work on the Centre Pompidou and Pierre Boulez's IRCAM. He has remained with Rogers and is a director of the Richard Rogers Partnership in London. He has taught at many schools of architecture in Europe, Asia and America. His passion is astronomy and making telescopes and visiting the world's largest ones.

His speciality in the partnership being the impact of technology on buildings, he describes its development through time, leading to the sophisticated building energy management systems of today (as in the Lloyds of London building).

The climax is a new development for facades of building, an electrochromic panel which changes its transparency and transmission properties under the control of a very small electric current. He envisages that its use, combined with the present energy management systems will lead to the production of the intelligent building.

CD-ROM / 1987 / 27 minutes

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BUILDING WITH MUD (PAUL OLIVER)

Paul Oliver is an architect. He was teaching for a number of years at the Architectural Association in London (in charge of art and history before heading the Graduate School), and then at Dartington College of Art (as Head of the Department of Art and Design) before taking up his present post as Associate Head of the Department of Architecture at Oxford Polytechnic. Here he also leads a research project with Ian Davis on post-disaster housing in earthquake-prone areas in Turkey, together with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He is author of a number of books on shelter: "Shelter In Society", "Shelter In Africa", "Sign & Symbol".

He has also designed a number of exhibitions for the UK Arts Council: "African shelter", "English Cottages & Small Farmhouses" and "The Village Green".

Paul Oliver is particularly interested in simple techniques and the rational use of natural materials. Having spent much time travelling in Africa, the Middle East, America and other parts of the world, he has come to respect the work of those who build with available resources. Earth is one of the oldest and cheapest of building materials, and it has a continuing future once its vulnerability to earthquakes shock, seismic tremor, erosion, salts and chemicals can be overcome. In his recorded talk, he discusses the problems and current solutions.

CD-ROM / 1982 / 26 minutes

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BUILDINGS KNOW HOW THEY SHOULD BE BUILT (LOUIS KAHN)

Louis Kahn, one of the most admired second generation modernists, came to prominence later in life, producing a clutch of influential building before his sudden death in 1974.

This interview, one of a series conducted by architectural publisher John Peter, was recorded in 1961 at Kahn's architectural office. During the design of his Trent Bath House, Kahn had a realisation about the hierarchy of space that would become central to his work. Here he discusses the distinction between served and serving spaces both in architecture and urban design (in particular the architecture of the street which Kahn terms viaduct architecture), and the need for new rules for the making of cities.

CD-ROM / 1961 / 54 minutes

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