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Spring 2010 RIBA Is Located at 66 Portland Place at the Junction with Weymouth Exhibitions, Talks and Events Street RIBA Visitor Information Whether new to the RIBA or a regular visitor, we welcome everyone to the Royal Institute of British Architects. From engaging exhibitions and high-profile lectures to delicious food and fascinating books, we have something for everyone to enjoy. Open Monday–Saturday Closed Sundays See page 19 for opening times Admission Admission to the RIBA is free. This includes our exhibition galleries, Library, Shop and Café. There may be a charge for specific events such as talks. Finding Us Spring 2010 RIBA is located at 66 Portland Place at the junction with Weymouth Exhibitions, talks and events Street. Nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus and Regent’s Park. Buses C2, The Art of Mud Building 88 and 453 stop nearby. Climate Change talks season Access Emerging Architecture Step-free access, non-motorised wheel chairs and lifts to all Inside Irish Architecture floors are available. Guide dogs are welcome. Palladio in New York Keep in touch Royal Gold Medal: I. M. Pei Stay informed about our latest events and exhibitions as well as news and offers. Subscribe to our free monthly email newsletter online at www.architecture.com/enews Royal Institute of British Architects 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD T 020 7580 5533 F 020 7255 1541 Front cover The Djenné www.architecture.com Mosque ©Trevor Marchand Welcome From exhibitions and talks to conferences and awards, the RIBA Trust advances architectural and design excellence through engagement with all. Highlights this spring include two combined exhibition and talks programmes: Emerging Architecture and The Art of Mud Building – the latter focussing on the African city of Djenné – as well as the continuing Architecture and Climate Change talks series. We also celebrate this year’s Royal Gold Medal winner, I. M. Pei, and exhibit some of our unrivalled collection of Palladio drawings in New York. All events held at our main venue, 66 Portland Place are listed, plus programming and events at other venues including the V&A through the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership. Full up-to-date information about all our events can be found at www.architecture.com Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Maggie's Centre, London Winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009, in association with The Architects’ Journal and Crystal CG This quietly confident building is truly, unquestionably a haven for those who have been diagnosed with cancer. It is a timeless work of architecture that not only distils the intentions of its brief but expresses in built form compassion, sensitivity and a deep sense of our common humanity. Image © Richard Bryant 3 Emerging Architecture All talks in this series £8.50/£5.50 Talks Talks unless otherwise stated. The eleventh Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Advance booking essential. Join us for an engaging, topical and Architecture recognise excellence in realised work by RIBA online ticket booking architects under 45. The RIBA celebrates the Awards with is now available at Architecture Emerging informative programme of talks across a series of talks by winning and commended architects. www.architecture.com/ programmes Alternatively leave a range of subjects at 66 Portland Place Don’t miss the Emerging Architecture exhibition, in the a message on our recorded and the V&A, plus further afield. Florence Hall until 27 February. See page 11 for details. booking line 020 7307 3699. Sponsored by Ramboll and Austin Smith: Lord Studio Sanjeev Shankar + GRAFT Talk Tuesday 23 February, 18.30 Sanjeev Shankar, presents his globally acclaimed project Jugaad, where 90 residents of an Indian urban village turned discarded oil cans into a suspended shade pavilion. He makes a case for merging traditional craft skills with contemporary practices and for creating community places through democratic design. GRAFT Architects present their project for the Make It Right Initiative – rebuilding a Ward of New Orleans Atelier Li Xiaodong + José María Sánchez García after hurricane Katrina – where, as ODOS Architects Estudio de Arquitecture + part of a group of high-profile international architects, they were Talk Tuesday 2 February, 18.30 Matharoo Associates engaged to develop affordable Beijing-based Atelier Li Xiaodong, Talk Tuesday 16 February, 18.30 yet sustainable houses for low combine spiritual exploration with José María Sánchez García, from income residents. rational thinking, artistic judgement Spain develops projects and with technical knowledge to create competitions with a multidisciplinary spaces of tranquility, harmony and team. He discusses their work, order. Three projects give an including the prize-winning entry overview of their work in China. into the awards, a raised, circular ODOS Architects is a Dublin building on the dam Gabriel y based practice that challenges Galán, Cáceres. and exposes its clients to the Indian practice Matharoo unfamiliar, questioning how people Associates present a journey work, rest and play. They talk about through their work with projects their project at The Carmelite such as House with Balls. Left: Matharoo Associates, Dilip Sanghvi Friary in Co. Kilkenny alongside They talk about their interest Residence at Surat, Gujarat, India, 2006–7. recent works. Photo: Dinesh Mehta in mechanical systems, leading Above left: Studio Sanjeev Shankar, to the creation of Curtain Door, Jugaad, New Delhi, India, 2008. their award-winning project. Photo: Sundeep Bali 4 5 Talks Talks International Dialogues: Talks Architecture and Climate Change Sponsored by International Dialogues International Dialogues International Our continuing international programme of talks and symposia brings outstanding thinkers and practitioners together to address key issues for the future of the built and natural environment. See videocasts of previous talks in this series a at www.gleeds.tv and at www.architecture.com/ international-dialogues In partnership with BioRegional One Planet Communities. Step by Step: Sustainable Post Copenhagen: A New Agenda Buildings for Africa Dr. R.K Pachauri and Professor Francis Kéré John Schellnhuber Talk Tuesday 16 March, 18.30 Talk Tuesday 30 March, 18.30 Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso Join Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel who designs sustainable architecture for the Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel benefit of the people of his home continent. He on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director General talks about his deep commitment to furthering of The Energy and Resources Institute, India the use and development of traditional building and Professor John Schellnhuber, Director among local communities. of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, His projects are designed to combine climatic Much More From a Lot Less Germany, Member of the IPCC and former Down to Earth Chief Government Advisor on Climate & Paul Oliver comfort with low-cost construction, making the The Architecture of C. Anjalendran most of local materials and the potential of the Related Issues for the German G8-EU Talk Tuesday 2 March, 18.30 local community, whilst adapting technology Talk Tuesday 23 March, 18.30 presidency in 2007. They discuss climate Join Paul Oliver, acclaimed academic and from the industrialized world in a simple and The eminent Sri Lankan architect C. Anjalendran change, sustainable solutions and the future Emeritus Professor at the International innovative way. Francis Kéré won the prestigious presents his work which is imbued with a simple international agenda. Vernacular Architecture Unit, Oxford Brookes Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 for directness acknowledging the rich vernacular Chaired by Sunand Prasad, Immediate University, for a stimulating talk about the future the primary school in his home village of Gando, traditions of his homeland. His visionary projects Past-President, RIBA of vernacular building traditions and their role Burkina Faso. include the SOS Children’s Village orphanages Tickets £12/£10 concessions in creating sustainable, culturally vibrant, people- that are created from cheap locally sourced orientated places to live. Oliver is one of the materials, consume minimal energy, while at the world’s foremost authorities on vernacular same time fusing together the various traditions architecture whose publications include the of a tragically divided country. Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Introduced by David Robson, author of In partnership with the School of Oriental and Anjalendran – Architect of Sri Lanka. African Studies. Part of the Art of Mud Building: With support from the Friends of Sri Lanka. All talks in this series £8.50/£5.50 unless Heritage and Sustainability series, see page 8 otherwise stated. Advance booking essential. for details. Talk followed by drinks reception Above left: Roofscape of the Djenné Mosque ©Trevor Marchand RIBA online ticket booking is now available and private view of Djenné: African City of Left: Francis Kéré, school extension, Gando, Burkina Faso at www.architecture.com/programmes. Mud, accompanied by a kora player. Above top: C. Anjalendran, The Dharmavasan House Alternatively leave a message on our Above: Anjalendran's verandah office in the rain recorded booking line 020 7307 3699. 6 7 Le Le Corbus Talks Talks The Art of Mud Building: Heritage and Sustainability A fascinating series of talks at the RIBA, The School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and the Ismaili Centre in London, explores the unique tradition of mud building in Africa. Supported by the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Down to Earth Restoring the Splendour of Djenné Talks at the V&A Gargoyles and Shadows: Building Futures Paul Oliver Talk Thursday 18 March, 19.00 Take part in one of our Closer Look Gothic Architecture and 19th debates talks at the Victoria and Albert Century Photography Talk Tuesday 2 March, 18.30 SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H Address the future of the built Museum as part of the V&A+RIBA Talk Tuesday 15 March environment and its impact on RIBA Join Rogier Bedaux and Annette Schmidt, Architecture Partnership.
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