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DESIGN DIRECTIONS
How does design happen? Anthony Vidler, Liza Fior, Siv Helene Stangeland, Nigel Coates and Madelon Vriesendorp present five methodologies, hosted by the London School of Architecture and Drawing Matter.
What to expect
Architecture is the nexus of all disciplines, sitting between the humanities and sciences and ranging from personal experience to environmental performance. Today architects must synthesise a staggering array of issues to create successful architecture and cities. And just as finance, politics and ecology all shape architecture, so too must designers make these invisible forces visible within their work.
How can designers bring these complex and often competing requirements into their work successfully? Design Directions, an event produced in partnership with the London School of Architecture and Drawing Matter, explores alternative ways to develop design, presenting five complementary approaches:
Anthony Vidler – Beyond the Diagram
Siv Helene Stangeland– Relational Design
Liza Fior – Urban Observation
Nigel Coates – Narrative Architecture
Madelon Vriesendorp – Meaning and Metaphor
Post-Modernism original cover, by Madelon Vriesendorp for Charles Jencks
Flagrant Délit by Madelon Vriesendorp
Relational Design by Siv Helene Stangeland
Image courtesy of Paul Smith Design
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Speakers
Nigel Coates
In 1984, Nigel Coates founded NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) as both architecture group and eponymous magazine. In 1995 Nigel was appointed head of the Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, and in 2011 he departed to help found the London School of Architecture, where he is now Chair of the Academic Court.
Liza Fior
Liza Fior is principal and founding partner of muf architecture/art. The work of the practice negotiates between the built and social fabric, public and private, in projects that have mainly been focused in East London. Elsewhere, muf has produced urban strategies for Pittsburgh, Cologne and Bordeaux.
Siv Helene Stangeland
Siv Helene Stangeland is a co-founder with Reinhard Kropf of the Norwegian practice Helen & Hard. Their method is to create adaptable compositions of spatial organisation, which can include necessary feedback from experts, future users, the environment, material properties, cost, fabrication, or other agencies.
Madelon Vriesendorp
Madelon Vriesendorp is co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Paintings she produced at the time were used for book and magazine covers, notably of Delirious New York (1978) by Rem Koolhaas. In 2009, she received an Honorable Fellowship from the RIBA.
Anthony Vidler
Anthony Vidler is Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at Yale. His most recent books include The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays (Monacelli Press, 2011), James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (Yale Press, 2010), and Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (MIT Press, 2008).
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