This autumn's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Trust programme includes talks by Daniel Libeskind, among others, on Polish architecture and identity as part of the Open: Poland season, acontinuation of the 'International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change' talks series, sponsored by Gleeds, and a selection of other talks and symposia at the RIBA, V&A, British Film Institute (BFI) and Arup.
This year's Jencks Award winner Charles Correa will speak on issues of architecture, urban-planning and housing in India, William McDonough and Michael Braungart will give the LKE Ozolins Lecture 2009 Ozolins on their design philosophy: Cradle to Cradle and Joseph Rykwert will give the RIBA Annual Discourse on challenges confronting future cities.
Other highlights include the acclaimed Brazilian architect, planner and former Mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner talking at both the RIBA and the BFI, Tony Fretton on Architecture and the Polish context and Jonathan Porritt in discussion on UK targets for zero-carbon homes.
The full RIBA Trust autumn talks programme follows (please note they are listed thematically rather than chronologically):
INDIVIDUAL LECTURES
Charles Correa: Theory into Practice
Jencks Award: Visions Built 2009
Tuesday 24November, 18.30, Jarvis Hall, RIBA
This year's winner, Charles Correa, discusses his work and issues of architecture, low-income housing and urban planning in India. Correa is one of India's pre-eminent architects and widely recognised for his outstanding contribution to architecture, having received the Royal Gold Medal in 1984. He is also a planner, activist, teacher and theoretician whose projects include, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Ahmedabad, the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh and housing projects and townships in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
Chaired by Charles Jencks, designer, author and broadcaster.
Sustaining Identity II Symposium
Hosted by RIBA Trust as part of the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership
Thursday 26 November, 10.00–17.30, V&A
A symposium uniting visionaries and practitioners from different cultures and geographies to prove that the creation of uniquely localised, people-centred space is still possible, demonstrating how design can deliver a process of 'whole life sustainability'. Introduced by Juhani Pallasmaa with the participation of UNESCO, Jane Da Mosto, Venice In Peril, Sean Godsell, Jonathan Kirschenfeld, Shigeru Ban, Alejendro Aravena, Inaki Abalos, Charles Correa, Gawie Fagan and Arup Associates. Moderated by Jonathan Glancey, Architecture Critic, The Guardian.
Booking essential. For ticket info please visit www.vam.ac.uk or call 020 7942 2211.
INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUES: ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
LKE Ozolins Lecture 2009
Tuesday 6 October, 18.30, Jarvis Hall, RIBA
American architect, William McDonough and chemical scientist, Dr. Michael Braungart speak about their design philosophy Cradle to Cradle. This is a vision of an environmentally and economically intelligent future where design draws inspiration from the natural world by emulating living systems.
Jonathon Porritt with Solar Century, Architype and Geothermal
Tuesday 13 October, 18.00, Debate, Jarvis Hall, RIBA
The UK has one of the world's most ambitious targets for delivering zero-carbon homes by 2016 and zero-carbon non-domestic buildings by 2019. With time pressing, just how are we going rise to the challenges that these targets present? Join the debate with three leading Ashden Award winners as they respond to the proposition: 'If I were the Government Minister responsible for zero carbon new buildings the key things that I would do to ensure that we are able to meet our targets would be…'
Following the presentations, a question and answer session and then a final vote for the best solution will take place. In partnership with the Ashden Awards.
Jaime Lerner: The Sustainable City
Tuesday 3 November, 18.30, Jarvis Hall, RIBA
Acclaimed architect, planner and former Mayor of Curitiba, Jaime Lerner, discusses his visionary ideas concerning cities and their future. Lerner's talk focuses on the role they play in contemporary society and the importance of design, both in structuring urban growth and in the development of a city, state or country. He also addresses the key issue of mobility – stressing the importance of public transportation.
Masdar City to One Brighton
Wednesday 25 November, 18.30
What are the lessons to be learned from zero carbon communities being built across the world? Senior architects from two RIBA Stirling Prize winning practices, David Nelson (Head of Design, Foster and Partners) and Peter Clegg (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios) join Pooran Desai, International Director of BioRegional's One Planet Communities programme to consider how world class design can make property development more sustainable.
OPEN: POLAND
The Polish Season talks programme is presented by the RIBA Trust in partnership with Arup. Please note the location of each talk.
RIBA Annual Discourse 2009
Joseph Rykwert
Tuesday 20 October, 18.30, RIBA, Jarvis Hall
Joseph Rykwert discusses the challenges confronting the future of cities. Warsaw, like Madrid, was a new capital on an older settlement: a classical city of brick and stucco wrecked by the war and then dominated by Stalinist steel, glass and concrete. Its new identity will have to come to terms with its broken image. Rykwert, whose research examines the complex relationship between architecture and the city, is one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of art and architecture. Chaired by Dr Irena Murray, Sir Banister Fletcher Director, RIBA British Architectural Library.
Daniel Libeskind: Poland: The Post-War Cultural Paradigm
Tuesday 27 October, 18.30, RIBA, Jarvis Hall
An evening with Daniel Libeskind,the internationally acclaimed architect known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture with iconic buildings such as the Jewish Museum, Berlin.
Architecture and the Polish Context
Wednesday 18 November, 18.30, Arup Building, Phase 2
Tony Fretton, architect of the recently opened British Embassy in Warsaw in conversation with Aneta Szylak, Director, Wyspa Institute of Art, Krzysztof Ingarden, architect and designer of the Polish Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010 and Lukasz Zagala, Medusa Group, Polish architect. Chaired by Vicky Richardson, Editor, Blueprint Magazine.
Renoma: The Building of an Icon
Wednesday 20 January, 18.30, Arup Building, Phase 2
Lead architect, Zbigniew Macków, introduces Renoma, the recently re-opened department store in central Wroclaw. This is followed by a conversation with the eminent British historian and specialist on Polish history, Norman Davies. Together they explore the extraordinary story of the building, as a reflection of the turbulent history of Wroclaw itself. Chaired by: Grzegorz Piatek, Co-curator, Open: Poland
Architecture and the Informal: Challenging the Paradigm
Wednesday 27 January,18.30, Arup Building, Phase 2
In recent years a new wave of Polish talent has offered critiques of the standard forms of urban planning through a variety of radical architectural interventions. Aleksandra Wasilkowska, author of numerous proposals for Warsaw including Plac Defilad talks with Joanna Rajkowska, artist of the recent Oxygenator Project in Warsaw and Grzegorz Piatek, architecture critic and co-curator of Open: Poland.
Chaired by Alejandro Gutierrez, Associate Director, Arup
The OPEN: POLAND events are supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
RIBA 175th ANNIVERSARY FILM SEASON AT THE BFI - TALKS
'Of Dreams and Cities: Architecture in Film'
This film season is accompanied by some pre-film talks listed below. For more information on the season go to www.bfi.org.uk |
From Xanadu to Chartres
Monday 2 November
18.30 NFT3, British Film Institute, Southbank
Tying in with the re-release of Citizen Kane (1941), Geoff Andrew, Head of Film Programmes at BFI Southbank, gives an illustrated talk exploring Orson Welles' use of architecture as a fertile source of metaphor for all his work, but with special reference to Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane screens at 20.30.
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brasil
Pre-film introduction by Jaime Lerner and post-film panel discussion
Wednesday 4 November
18.30 NFT1, British Film Institute, Southbank
Through focusing on innovations in transportation, recycling and affordable housing the Brazilian city of Curitiba was transformed into one of the most liveable cities in the world. Former Mayor Jaime Lerner, architect and planner, will introduce the film and be in discussion afterwards with Peter Jenkinson OBE.
Introduction to 'My Winnipeg' (2008) by Joni Tyler
Thursday 5 November
14.00 NFT1: British Film Institute, Southbank
Memories, dreams and reflections mingle with clear-eyed regret in Maddin's "docu-fantasia" about his Canadian prairie hometown. What spell does our hometown cast over the grown up child? Are our psyches damaged by our personal built environment and the architecture of our lives? Maddin mixes animation, archive footage and recreated scenes of childhood trauma in his usual neo-Soviet style in an attempt to break free. This screening, free for over 60s, is supported by the City Bridge Trust. Tickets are otherwise £5, including discussion and post-film refreshments.
Introduction to L'Eclisse (1962) by Claudio Silvestrin, architect
12 November
18.10 NFT2, British Film Institute, Southbank
This screening will be introduced by eminent Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin, who practices in Milan and London. L'Eclisse, Italy 1962, dir Michelangelo Antonioni has Rome and its 1950's modernist suburbs as the backdrop to a film about a doomed love affair. Themes include individual and societal alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
RIBA Building Futures Debate: This House Believes We Have Lost Sight of the Future.' Chaired by Ben Hammersley, Wired Magazine
Tuesday 17 November
18.30 NFT 1, British Film Institute, SouthbankRIBA Building Futures and Wired Magazine host a multi-disciplinary evening fusing film, architecture and debate to reveal our ambitions for tomorrow. Tickets £5.
RIBA President Ruth Reed introduces The Belly of an Architect
18 November
20.40 NFT2, British Film Institute, Southbank
An American architect arrives in Italy to supervise an exhibition for a French architect. Over nine months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his unborn child and his own life. Through metaphors of pregnancy and architecture, Greenaway constructs a poetic visual narrative of Rome that contrasts with the physical and mental decay of the creative individual.
TALKS AT THE V&A
The Closer Look talks at the Victoria and Albert Museum are part of the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership.
Trans-Atlantic Connections: American Designs in RIBA Collections
Tuesday 1September, 13.00 – 14.00, V&A, Free
From nineteenth-century prisons and universities to twentieth-century skyscrapers and modernist houses, the RIBA's Drawings and Archives collections document changing design attitudes towards the built environment in the United States. With Kurt Helfrich, RIBA Trust.
Isokon and the Lawn Road Flats
Tuesday 13 October, 13.00 – 14.00, V&A, Free
Explore and discuss the significance of the Lawn Road flats in London which were built by the firm Isokon. With Barbara Lasic, V&A.
Baroque v Palladianism: The Battle of Styles 1715-1750
Tuesday 3 November, 13.00 – 14.00, V&A, Free
Taking the current exhibition on Europe and the English Baroque 1660-1715 in the Architecture Gallery as the starting point, examine how Baroque ran alongside fashionable Palladianism much later than is generally believed. With Charles Hind, RIBA Trust.
The Picturesque versus the Sublime in Architecture
Tuesday 8 December, 13.00 – 14.00, V&A, Free
This talk uses drawings and photographs from the collections of the RIBA and V&A to explore key tenets of the Romantic period's aesthetic ideas and their influence on architecture since. With Catriona Cornelius, RIBA Trust.
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