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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 A+U and ElCroquis, and numerous awards including the Schelling Medal.
In this rare conversation with Steph we talk about her route to architecture, the people who shaped her journey and how she practices now. What comes across recurrently is that there is no one route to the subject, and education is a not a system, but a form of becomming fueled by curiosity and care.
https://www.6a.co.uk
At the outset we mention the Drawing Matter Summer School - which is a free week long course for students 15-16 to experience a taste of an architecture education prior to making a decision to study it.
More here https://drawingmatter.org/events/drawing-matter/summer-school-2024/
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Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London www.kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Heba ElSharkawy
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 reading. Building its innovations from a close reading of history particular attention is paid to plan and form to allow each project possess a singular character. This work is intertwined with teaching and research as an essential part of the practice - which includes making publications on numerous architects from the point of view of the practice - including James Stirling, Aldo and Hanna Van Eyck, and Giancarlo di Carlo.
Kersten is full Professor at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, and both he and David are visiting Professors at Harvard GSD.
https://officekgdvs.com
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London www.kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Heba ElSharkawy
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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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 their citizens. Her two books 'Ground Control' and 'Big Capital' are essential reading (click on the link to her website below to buy copies). She lucidly makes visible the impact of policies, regulation and disinterest on the populations of cities, and calls for an engagement with politics to seek a reaffirmation of the states role in building social housing, among other measures, as a vital part of the social contract.
Her new book, forthcoming in 2026 will take an even more ambitious frame - encompassing cities across the world.
https://www.annaminton.com
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London www.kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Heba ElSharkawy
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 curious sensibility, based on a close reading of each site and its potentials.
This attitude allows him to see ordinary things anew, and to propose lyrical and playful works which are expressive of their conceptual and physical assembly. This is not collage, but a synthesis in which each component is vividly present, and time is expressly held in its articulation of how things have been made, adjusted or kept.
https://jotaillieu.com
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London www.kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Heba ElSharkawy
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 human behaviours, mood and well being.
In this conversation we range widely, exploring her early work, and how she came to set up the Daylight Lab in MIT, and then the LIPID lab in EPFL. We also hear about her time as Dean at EPFL, and the work and strategies she deployed in managing a vast faculty.
https://people.epfl.ch/marilyne.andersen?lang=en
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Heba ElSharkawy
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 on deep traditions in architecture - seeking expressive qualities in contemporary construction techniques. Here they speak about how they balance this careful ‘present tense’ aspect of their work, against the necessary vagaries of construction today.
https://www.hhl.se
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 - eschewing the brittleness that comes from autonomous conversations, and making its languages from a bottom up approach, one with tolerance at its heart. Here tolerance is a calling to an architecture which is sited in the specifics of the architects context, and the needs of the project - encompassing material behaviours but also much more, including the lives and futures of those engaged with its making.
https://www.facebook.com/robustarchitectureworkshop/
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Credits:
Register is the Research Group in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Simon Henley
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 gathering pace with a remarkable series of university buildings completed in the last few years, and more on the way. At the heart of Graftons practice is a concern for the human aspects of architecture - how it is made, how it affects those who use it, and how it speaks to the society that it forms a part of. In this discussion Shelley and Yvonne discuss their education, those critical first few projects, and how they have navigated their career since then. They reflect on the sensibilities that underlie their remarkable buildings, and what they see as key challenges facing the disipline today.
https://www.graftonarchitects.ie/
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy / Nana Biamah Ofosu
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 explorations into the language of architecture are being teased out via a series of remarkable housing projects, one of which (Chadwick Hall) was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize (the UKs highest award for architecture) last year.
http://henleyhalebrown.com/
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 of towns. Wherever she has worked she has brought a clarity of insight, valuing the unseen and the overlooked along with more obvious aspects, to make a singular contribution in each place.
This is true also of her work as an educator - in which she seeks to tease out her students ability to see in an enabling fashion - both for their own careers as architects, and in relation to how they make work.
She is a winner of the RIBA Stirling prize, RIBA Rome prize and numerous other accolades.
http://www.cathyhawley.co.uk/about.php
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 exhibitions which present those visiting with vivid moments of engagement with the subject - a particular challenge in architecture when by necessity only an alibi for the subject the visitor will be engaging with.
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Laura Evans / Matt Wells
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 was recorded.
In it Mary and Federica interview Alba diLieto and William Whitaker.
Alba is curator of the archive Carlo Scarpa at the Directorate Civic Art Museums and Monuments of Verona. William Whitaker is the curator and collections manager of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.
In this conversation Alba and William speak of the nature of their archives, of their inception, management and growth. They also speak eloquently about the nature of these archives as repositories of thinking, offering profound insights into our discipline.
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Mary Vaughan Johnson / Federica Goffi
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 with Kate Micklin also of 31/44.
The work of the unit is a good way to understand some of the interests of 31/44 as a practice. There is a careful approach to understanding and researching context, and using this to inform their projects. This contextual read is not one grounded in a literal formal or material transposition, but in a sensibility which allows contextual work stand in sympathy both with its own time, and the histories of the sites they work on.
As such their works are to an extent a distillation and a refinement of particular observations, a retelling of a story of how the city has been made.
https://www.3144architects.com
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Laura Evans / Matt Wells
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 - not least a concern with close reading of site and context, and an investment in drawing out what the ‘utter’ aspect of a project might be through conversation and drawing.
We talk through their recent retirement from UCD - the school they were taught in and in turn taught into for most of their lives, and how this might mark a new chapter on a number of levels. We also hear what it was like working for Stirling, the humanity of the man, and his insistence on the value of ‘the act itself’ of being an architect.
We do hope you enjoy the conversation.
http://odonnell-tuomey.ie
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Credits:
Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 Sizas most recent visit. In this conversation they talk about practice, Sizes early frustrations with small projects, how current jobs interrelate in the office, and the value of Kenneth Frampton in highlighting work from around the world, including Portugal, which might otherwise have been overlooked.
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Register is the Reseach Group for the Departmetn of Architecture & landscape. This episode was made in collaboration with the students architecture society K.Arch
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Bruno Silvestre
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 physical situation. There is more at work than this - most intriguingly a continual engagement with the potentials for architecture to accrete meaning through its engagement as a protagonist in ritual and habit. Here they draw their references very widely, most particularly from a series of lengthy journeys they made in the first few years of their practice. Here we see a robust territorial architecture engaging with global conversations, making something new and yet of its place. www.taka.ie---------Credits: Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.londonHead of Department: Mary JohnsonProducer: Laura Evans / Andrew ClancyRegister: Christoph Lueder; Matt Wells; Matt PhillipsInterviewer: Andrew Clancy and Laura EvansEditor: Andrew ClancyMusic: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture
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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 scientific analysis and process. In speaking with his students he observes that a field trip can at once be a sensorial immersion and a scientific appraisal, and posits a work method that includes space for digression, memory and dreaming along with rigorous engagement with the realities of contemporary ecology and construction. A detail in this context can speak about both the personal and the political. This ability for multiple scales of thinking to be manifest at once allows space for digression and a radical subjectivity in the design process - resulting in landscapes which are contextual and surreal, robust and intimate.
In the beautiful landscapes he and his practice have made with collaborators such as Herzog deMeuron we can see the results of this humanistic compulsion, and in this conversation we tease out how he developed as a designer, and how he sees this role evolving in the face of contemporary pressures.
https://www.vogt-la.com/en
Kingston is one of the few schools in these islands which offers landscape architecture alongside architecture - we do so because we are keenly aware that the built environment is more than buildings, and believe that students of both disciplines benefit from this context.
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Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.london
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Course Leader Landscape: Kristof Fatsar
Producer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy
Interviewer: Andrew Clancy and Louise Koopmans
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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, has resulted in work which is beautifully detailed, robustly made and historically situated.
In this conversation Amin teases out the underlying ideas of the practice, including the way that memory, and misremembering, have always been the way our cities have been made - placing his work in this tradition of continuity.
Kate and Dan were both students of the course when they made this interview, and they bring an incisive lens on the work which makes for enjoyable listening.
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Register is the Reseach Group for the Departmetn of Architecture & landscape. This episode was made in collaboration with the students architecture society K.Arch
Head of Department: Mary Johnson
Producer: Kate Ivinson / Dan Ryder-Cook
Interviewer: Kate Ivinson / Dan Ryder-Cook
Editor: Andrew Clancy
Music: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture -
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 architecture criticism may have passed. https://www.readingdesign.org/---------Credits: Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.londonHead of Department: Mary JohnsonProducer: Laura Evans / Andrew ClancyRegister: Christoph Lueder; Matt Wells; Matt PhillipsInterviewer: Andrew Clancy and Matt PhillipsEditor: Andrew ClancyMusic: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture
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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 beyond conservation circles of course, and I think it fair to say that this building has been one of the key works of the last 20 years in shaping the culture of architecture on our continent. Our contemporary understanding of bricolage, fragment and inflection are all wrapped up and tested in various ways in this building. There is a radicality here, one which is perhaps less immediately evident (but no less present) in other projects by Julian and in this conversation he takes us through the challenge of conservation - which in his view is never a simple dogmatic agenda, but another layer of architectural thinking. Www.julianharraparchitects.co.uk---------Credits: Register is the Research Centre in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London kingstonarchitecture.londonHead of Department: Mary JohnsonProducer: Laura Evans / Andrew ClancyRegister: Christoph Lueder; Matt Wells; Matt PhillipsInterviewer: Andrew Clancy and Matt PhillipsEditor: Andrew ClancyMusic: Poddington Bear - Rainbow Architecture
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