During this free day-long event for school pupils aged 16 to 18 years, architects from London’s top practices will explain the varieties of pathways they took to become architects and will showcase the amazing array of projects they have worked on during their career.
Architects will also run focus group sessions for attending students to enable students to ask questions and to talk one to one with a range of professions.
To attend this free event please email sophie.draper@riba.org by the 20 November.
Schedule
- 10am to 10.20am - Welcome presentations by RIBA and the Zaha Hadid Foundation
- 10.20am to 10.40am - Presentation by Jestico + Whiles
- 10.40am to 11am - Presentation by Make
- 11am to 11.30am - Focus group question and answer session.
- 11.30am to midday - Presentation by Allies and Morrison with a question-and-answer session.
- Midday to 12.45pm- Lunch
- 12.45pm to 1.05pm - Presentation by Danald Insall Associates
- 1.05pm to 1.20pm - Presentation by Adjaye Associates
- 1.20pm to 1.50pm - Focus group question and answer session
- 1.50pm to 2.15pm - Informal networking to enable students to speak with architects.
About the participating practices
Make
Make is a different kind of architecture practice. Motivated by imaginative design, they deliver spaces that inspire people and transform lives. Founded in 2004 by Ken Shuttleworth, Make has teams in London, Hong Kong and Shanghai providing architecture, interior and urban design services from concept to completion. Make are committed to resilient placemaking that creates social value for all.
Jestico + Whiles
Jestico + Whiles is an architecture and interior design practice with a proud heritage, driven by curiosity and a passion for design. They run with purpose for the benefit of all. Jestico + Whiles pride themselves on being a welcoming, inclusive, friendly and collaborative place to work, where employee wellbeing is prioritised and every person is valued. They thrive on a culture of mutual support, democratic participation and open lines of communication.
Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison are architects and urbanists. They strive to design beautiful buildings that have long life and can adapt over the generations. They also shape enduring places whether new pieces of city or settlements at any scale. All of their projects are concerned with the crafting of every detail and an appreciation for the uniqueness of each context.
Representing more than forty nationalities and speaking more than twenty languages, Allies and Morrison thrive on a friendly, collaborative and supportive atmosphere. They work as one studio, bringing together architects, urban designers and planners, with specialists in conservation, sustainability, interiors, modelmaking, graphic design, communications, community engagement and studio administration.
Adjaye Associates
Since establishing Adjaye Associates in 2000, Sir David Adjaye OBE has crafted a global team that is multicultural and stimulated by the broadest possible cultural discourse. The practice has studios in Accra, London, and New York and completed work in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Adjaye Associates’ most well-known commission to date is the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), opened in 2016 on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
Danald Insall Associates
Donald Insall Associates is the UK’s leading conservation architecture and heritage consultancy practice. For over 65 years they have pioneered a creative and pragmatic approach to managing change within the historic environment.
Their diverse portfolio includes nationally significant projects such as the Europa Nostra Award-winning conservation of Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster as well as NLHF-funded civic projects such as the revitalisation of Rochdale Town Hall. Historic buildings and places need to adapt to thrive in a fast-changing world – Danal Insall help enable this by not just ‘making good’, but by ‘making better’. This could look like increasing the environmental performance, resilience and viability of historic buildings; it can also look like enhancing the significance of a building or place, and our ability to appreciate it.
Venue and accessibility information
Several bus routes serve the area, including numbers 19, 38, 61and 341.
The closest National Rail and London Underground station is Farringdon which is served by the Elizabeth, Hammersmith and City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. The station has step-free access. Barbican station is also close by.
There are public bicycle racks on the north side of Bowling Green Lane (the side opposite the building).
The building is step free and wheelchair accessible. There is a 7cm step from the street to the main entry gate. Please contact sophie.draper@riba.org in advance if you require the use of a step-free alternative entry gate. The building has accessible and gender-neutral toilets, and baby changing facilities. Assistance dogs are welcome.
