Over 90 of Europe’s top architectural supplier will reveal their innovations, which companies have gone through a rigorous selection process, in the UK for the first time.
Architects, designers and specifiers can visit the event free of charge by registering through the following link using code 260: www.architect-at-work.co.uk.
WOOD & ARCHITECTURE
This year’s London edition has chosen wood as its theme. To honour this beautiful material, London’s SCIN GALLERY, Materials Library and Resource, presents a collection of wood curiosities called Growth Rings. The exhibition examines the species of trees that give us the wood we use in architecture, it looks at the DNA of wood and its physiology.
The Amercian Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) partnered with designers Kolman Boye and furniture-makers Benchmark to create a towering structure of food plates in a commission for Wallpaper* Handmade 2015 called the Rotunda Serotina.
The three-storey ‘general store’ will be presented in London for the first time as part of ARCHITECT@WORK and also plays to the wood theme for this edition.
The photography exhibition put together by World-Architects.com, features case studies of 50 new buildings from both globally recognized practices to new work from emerging young practices. This exhibition will be a visual feast for architects and designers alike.
The pop-up RIBA bookshop for architects and designers, organized and run by RIBA, will give visitors an opportunity to browse and purchase magazines and books touching on a particular area of specialistion and interest.
TALKS PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 27th January at 15:00 Victor Boye Julebäk and Erik Kolman Janouch (both Kolman Boye), Sean Sutcliffe (Benchmark furniture) and David Venables (AHEC) will present the Rotunda Serotina in London for the first time. They will discuss the Scandinavian wood tradition, the phenomenological qualities of the American cherry and maples as well as the ground breaking Life Cycle Assessment they used to create the Rotunda Serotina.
This session will be followed at 16:30 by Patrick Richard (Stanton Williams) and Tom Dyckhoff, broadcaster and architectural historian on the pros and cons of working on projects in a variety of different European countries.
At 18:00 RIBA organizes a talk on the housing crisis in London with Anna Minton, author of Ground Control and Reader in Architecture at UEL, and Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor of Housing in London, Land and Property, Paul Karakusevic, Karakusevic Carson Architects, chaired by Eleanor Young, Executive Editor, RIBAJ.
The discussion aims to explore the extent to which the industry can provide a solution to the housing shortage, or are the problems of the housing shortage more deep rooted?
On Thursday, 28th January at 16:30, Christian Male (SimpsonHaugh) will present ‘Three buildings by the Thames. Followed by Jason Flanagan at 18:00 who will illustrate how designing for sound informs the sophisticated and striking performance architecture which Flanagan Lawrence produces.
More information on ARCHITECT@WORK can be consulted online: www.architect-at-work.co.uk and you can register online for a free entrance using code 260.
Please not that free catering is provided throughout the event.
