Peter Cook

Player is loading...

Embed

Copy embed code

Transcriptions

Note: this content has been automatically generated.

00:00:08

architects students

00:00:12

it is our to welcome a huge cock most that's tonight's big pleasure for

00:00:21

u. p. s. how big pressure also for us from a recent

00:00:25

uh also from mark assume a voice cork in icing dyslexic tonight

00:00:33

with us this afternoon we have very engaged discussions

00:00:41

oh after studio taxing architects in yes it's

00:00:48

buildings around the world amongst which to comes house

00:00:53

in cross which has become one of the most important question

00:00:58

and european landmarks in the last decade one could say a peacock is call sounder

00:01:07

was cofounder of market crime in the early sixties

00:01:11

sci cofounder darkly cram together with michael where one harry

00:01:18

david green green or actual and and then it's gone

00:01:22

thank you peter it's

00:01:27

your projects and market market grandpa just happen very influential

00:01:33

uh for many of today's still eating practised says such as norman foster

00:01:42

wow i'm call us and many others

00:01:47

did you go 'cause also very important educator yes thing teaching at yeah yeah he

00:01:53

was director of the stairs issues in germany

00:01:59

chair of artists and has been for many

00:02:04

generations very important figures figure in theory and education of

00:02:10

architecture peter it's very big push to have you with us

00:02:15

the floor is yours thank you i think i last spoke in this

00:02:18

bill thirty eight years ago uh which um i was in another building

00:02:26

i think that but i mean not that i'm i think it came

00:02:32

up in the conversation this afternoon uh i i myself have always very um

00:02:38

interested in in the biographies of students or anybody else like come up on

00:02:44

um i think that and and as i'm saying uh yeah this afternoon yeah

00:02:49

uh have a much the atmosphere the college or high school

00:02:56

got teaches op op op certain things that you really have

00:03:00

an upset him impinges upon you also i think very important is

00:03:06

the subconscious experience what you see out of the corner of ya what

00:03:13

you are affected by even if you don't miss it at the time

00:03:18

and being possibly build this person in the room um i

00:03:22

i suspect that some of you will come to realise that

00:03:27

uh and and at the point at which you relies it you you also relies is much you can do about it um

00:03:35

on the other hand one at certain points become self conscious about this and i

00:03:40

have chosen above up very para protect a child to my father was along the office of i moved

00:03:46

from town to town i went i think the twelve different schools and ten different towns

00:03:52

um i had chosen to regard myself as a child of the seaside even it technically

00:04:00

between the age of of a null and and site twenty two

00:04:05

uh i only probably looked at the seaside aside at that time

00:04:10

i think it was a seaside that is a characteristic that has um

00:04:15

affected certainly the arcade graham period of my life i

00:04:18

think the docking graham the notion of the up the

00:04:23

temporal they the notion of the act up the the environment that comes and goes

00:04:30

it's really a mirror of what happens in in the seaside where

00:04:36

a town so that in english seaside would be almost dead in the winter

00:04:41

and then in the spring people start coming out and they start painting things and they start on opening

00:04:49

uh enclosures and they start wiring up electric some gradually

00:04:54

the people come big town metamorphosis into something quite different

00:04:59

and then to what september october it it shrinks back again

00:05:04

followed up on so often and all those ideas about metamorphosis

00:05:09

and the ah we plug in city the removable replaceable

00:05:14

make the developed topple i think stan from that quite naturally

00:05:21

what i want to start off with the uh two pictures here up

00:05:24

to the town signed it in a a one on the on the left

00:05:29

felix there is a very small and insignificant seaside town on the east

00:05:34

coast of p. upping and and this luna park this buttons luna park

00:05:44

was something that always

00:05:47

struck me as being special at the time it's only later

00:05:54

read better dropping it and putting need labels on it but

00:05:58

i can say what i was experiencing is a twelve euros

00:06:02

was in fact a pair a intriguing juxtaposition of of object

00:06:08

make a structure which was a hell to sculpt

00:06:12

we didn't think i didn't think of it as being a microstructure

00:06:15

but i think the senses what was underneath the house a sculptor

00:06:19

was the crazy house of funny building made out of rubber cement

00:06:24

or uh in order to be crazy it was in a sense

00:06:29

a piece of expressionism i didn't know anything about german

00:06:33

expressionist time but in this funny way that's what it was

00:06:38

and the building with cafe building next to them uh they're in

00:06:42

an english rather provincial way was actually a piece of ah back uh

00:06:47

i think no i wouldn't it be no more topic i was time to to to

00:06:51

get a mega structure and a piece of expressionism and and ah back a building it's

00:06:57

together is an unusual thing and i don't think we should stay relies wanted to

00:07:03

go out but somehow starring in me what instincts to be intrigued by such things

00:07:10

we moved the clock for what probably ten or maybe ten years and

00:07:17

i did until i moved to london in a town called ball off and i went

00:07:22

to my first architecture school it bore most which was part of the art we are college

00:07:29

an you could pay a penny go down the left if you're very lazy

00:07:35

uh and you could pay another penny go well with with with if you were tired

00:07:41

and of course what it was a piece of technology knocking grammars

00:07:45

always referred to as being very very interested in technology i think

00:07:51

in in using such operators on is living with technology but you don't sing is out if this is

00:07:58

technology just happened to be about getting up and down up and down the trap local c. victorian period

00:08:06

from which those cliffs lives probably originator or that later um

00:08:11

was a wonderful period for incorporating technology in quite a nonchalant way

00:08:18

but i think that seaside experience stayed with me

00:08:23

this is some more detail about all of the town where i first went to architecture school

00:08:29

it is curious they uh a successful beach town

00:08:35

quite a large one and or the repository up a lot of english

00:08:41

uh near gothic church is is probably the biggest

00:08:45

collection of near gothic churches in the south of england

00:08:50

um and the other thing that because was going on was the school of architecture the little tiny school

00:08:55

that i went to the point then went on today was the last place in england where we would talk

00:09:02

we would talk to yours classical rules and way would tool to to be able

00:09:10

to do all the five orders about architecture by using proportional devices where you went out

00:09:18

to measure some of these new gothic churches with pieces of late which you

00:09:22

wrapped around the trace rip the building and you put them on the paper and

00:09:27

draw around and then you make drawings from that so that you were supposed to understand what they um

00:09:34

what the methods all of that classical and gothic architecture were about

00:09:42

and we were forced to read books such as this which is cool

00:09:46

um james gives rules for drawing the several parts of

00:09:50

architecture and if you're a good student you follow the rules

00:09:56

but because the other thing that was going on out of the corner of my eye was the fact that this

00:10:02

particular town was a kind of ah cajun construct was built

00:10:07

and developed really for the people from the industrial multiplying them

00:10:12

we went to retire and die because the time it

00:10:16

it's rather good lou for some years longer than expected to

00:10:21

and well in carriage to take each parent relations amounts the trees it's walked among the trees

00:10:28

a lot of funny things going on and on the trees the including some strange near

00:10:35

newcastle buildings which were doing useful things like

00:10:39

storing water so ah at the age of fourteen

00:10:46

i became consciously interested in architecture raided the local

00:10:50

public library to everything i could learn about architecture

00:10:54

i persuaded my parents to take me to see

00:10:59

castles like collected castles rather like some people products them

00:11:03

i would insist on going to look at the costs a lot to cough learn roman towns

00:11:08

and cathedrals and i made both would mobiles of cathedrals and then around the age of fifteen

00:11:15

i discovered look was a in the public library and after the

00:11:20

group was ace only i think the most exciting illustration i found

00:11:26

was this one a which is a building a pull down before i was born

00:11:34

uh by the building was in stock co for the

00:11:38

stockholm nineteen thirty exhibition it was gonna ask learns a restaurant

00:11:45

and i saw this picture and i was too which part and i'm

00:11:48

still the which part because i have no way of saying it the building

00:11:52

'cause pull down that never been anything more than black and white but it wrong

00:11:57

i don't know what it would be like in colour and it was wonderful

00:12:03

to me this was something else that i left behind those castles and cathedrals and

00:12:09

and and and living in town such as north which had forty medieval

00:12:13

churches and if you live in a town that has supported medieval churches

00:12:17

i bought with mid medieval churches doctor wily and i will like to

00:12:22

say yes my deepest ready yes or no but this is something wonderful

00:12:27

it looked like an aeroplane it was it was it was free and then it was the

00:12:31

lights and let the lie true in it had it's it's still i find that the witching image

00:12:40

and i discovered this before i went to the architecture school even though i went

00:12:46

to the architecture school at the age of sixteen i'd already become a fan of modernism

00:12:53

that this kind of modernism the slight modernism and then going

00:12:58

to school wave to than the classical orders on the near gothic

00:13:02

measuring meetings and drawing from victorian books of ornament restraints i went

00:13:08

sort of also ah face i went back good so to speak

00:13:13

the resulting me who knows what it was a product or was it

00:13:17

the product of all those different towns i lived in was it the product

00:13:21

top of going into sort of double reversal looking at the variable things

00:13:26

then going away from them and then being told to look at them again

00:13:31

and then when i came finally today being taught really hard look at them because some

00:13:35

of our teachers like jane a long summers and what what brilliant the teachers of history

00:13:44

and then i came to london s. and after they okay after working

00:13:51

in offices i start to beat some rather interesting guys who are cold

00:13:57

okay granted now called historical talk and we were

00:14:01

ten yes apart in age the oldest to the youngest

00:14:05

and maybe two from the same school everybody had different taste

00:14:11

in trials different taste in go friends different taste in music

00:14:15

different taste in food we were not all the same ill and i think

00:14:21

that was the string the bach ground we were coalition up very different personalities reproduced

00:14:27

this magazine which is a sort of anti magazine it it was a sheet

00:14:32

that changed its format

00:14:35

each time we produced one it had the different format deliberately to see what

00:14:41

you could get out the cheap writing and and and then we would either make

00:14:45

some of the arc grams like children's books we just design some towels

00:14:51

we made the towers until papa reason ah pops up like get but

00:14:57

and and people were it possible bias making fun of our own

00:15:01

well but i will you be where the english when they're being funny

00:15:08

you may not find it funny but they are then yeah most serious

00:15:12

we have a natural tendency to send our anything that takes itself too seriously

00:15:19

it is our defence mechanism which is also the basis of a creativity i think now

00:15:26

every member of hockey graham slice it was different and we in a sense used to

00:15:33

harry with each other we used to sort of compete with

00:15:36

each other through individual projects most of the things on this page

00:15:41

our individual project except the one on the top right

00:15:44

which was a a a a project morris done by everybody

00:15:48

which was clear isn't enough a competition project for that same

00:15:52

town up all of which needless to say we didn't win

00:15:58

and we look for for while by big building contract we

00:16:02

managed to all get a job working for this big building contractor

00:16:05

which itself have a kind of experimental design group and

00:16:09

the two or more yes we would pay quite well

00:16:14

to supposedly design prefabricated concrete housing

00:16:20

and some housing schemes in railway station

00:16:23

none of which really got bill but we also experimented and we used to buy all the italian and

00:16:30

french magazines which you would have worn shock sitting in the site hot on the side of a building

00:16:36

with the speech ah reading uh japan architect an architect should or should

00:16:41

we and thomas and and and and such things and have a better

00:16:47

and we would have an an amazing time and we were producing our own magazines

00:16:52

and at the same time this this is a construction company paid money

00:16:58

for me to develop my particular channel which was this

00:17:01

one and my god it it is hideous like uh

00:17:06

it's frightening um it was meant to be at half

00:17:10

for uh well it's for having held in montreal but uh

00:17:14

it didn't actually happen but the construct is still of interest to mean you'll see why to be like that

00:17:22

and then it came yeah i was giving a lot of

00:17:27

a a cheery sessions at the a i won a small competition about again a half out of school

00:17:33

and suggested cheaply suggested myself to the school that i would like to come and be a critic

00:17:39

and i said yes sure we trying ah and i was always be considered good it it

00:17:44

because sometimes getting enough to be a like a year like i got i i i i was

00:17:50

in there about every week on some jury or other and then the schools

00:17:54

said look this is getting stupid why don't we put you on the payroll

00:18:00

and i was hired as the very special role

00:18:04

sort of how well i was assistant to the fifth them asked another fifty amassed oppose it

00:18:11

teacher in charge of the diploma yeah and this system would was meant to be a

00:18:16

sort of useful young guy who would be helpful would sort of wall behind a professor

00:18:23

and and and lapel afterwards and and be

00:18:27

a useful shoulder to cry pong exact that

00:18:32

my propensity project this thing had been published

00:18:37

about six weeks before i started the job

00:18:41

when i say that being published i don't mean it'd been published in a very obscure

00:18:47

architecture mike the is it being published in the most popular colour supplement

00:18:52

in england which at that time so the one and a half million copies

00:18:57

the sunday times colour supplemented with larry and colour at every

00:19:02

one of the students to whom i was introduced by my parts

00:19:06

it's that this is peter cook it's going to be my system as students they

00:19:09

tell me offices uh say how are we gonna do that kind of stuff she's ah

00:19:18

or i never had the benefit of anonymity

00:19:24

i never had that useful benefits of anonymity that certain teachers have where they cannot

00:19:29

be somebody in a little room all to pops out little room all comes round set

00:19:34

ah yes i think i can be quite helpful but that state chase you know

00:19:39

why don't you go home and have a rest or you know why don't you just show

00:19:44

boyfriend or in any pieces of useful useful tutorial

00:19:48

advice that i never had that that law very

00:19:52

because i was good on that talking we it's scheme in the news

00:19:57

plus a hell we don't do that if we it was actually i

00:20:03

spent the first yeah or yeah how teaching hockey doing any drawing i became

00:20:10

what i realised was the need was to be effectively an amateur psychologist

00:20:18

how ten of my students what older than me one of them was twice my age

00:20:25

and couldn't design and that's very difficult how do you handle that

00:20:30

and

00:20:33

i really nice a lot of what goes on in

00:20:36

an architect as close to do with faye if and

00:20:41

support and keeping interested and then and number number of

00:20:46

things which are not necessary architectural issues but our personal issues

00:20:53

and then gradually i got the hang of it and and and and and started to broken

00:21:01

the plugin city this is a rather comp complex during all all part of it

00:21:07

and i lost it probably for almost two years in from

00:21:11

the beginning to the end from the very versatile bottles made of

00:21:15

sort of sticks wooden sticks such including me but how

00:21:21

and then developed and then i'd is about electric cars

00:21:25

then developed further then developed university element which was particular in its

00:21:29

own right and then looked at the ways in which could infiltrate

00:21:34

pieces of supper appearance also probably from the beginning to the end about two years

00:21:39

and then came a number of project often questioning the city

00:21:46

it the plugin city all the incessant city but anti cities

00:21:51

yeah the the instant city being when you're travelling element of city that would

00:21:56

print culture to even the village and and travel on like just a travelling circus

00:22:02

um all the low cost uh the the web pieces of furniture or pieces of furniture

00:22:07

that will cost all their houses it would

00:22:10

disintegrate on bell opal digits but certainly pop ah

00:22:16

these in a way what questioning the tradition of the chow older vehicle

00:22:23

all the house

00:22:26

all the village but in a way well by so doing i

00:22:30

think in love with the tradition up the house village and so on

00:22:36

well sometimes i've found myself using a particular focus

00:22:43

upon which to develop ideas about places i travel a great

00:22:48

deal of have done since the beginning of the arc around here

00:22:52

and i have made i have done a number of top projects so far i say

00:22:57

so far optimistically no that is commissioned me to do it now but i commission myself

00:23:05

i'm making a kind of a rule that i have to know the place for at least one on

00:23:11

before all entertained the idea of doing it to uh one of the cities i've

00:23:15

been to many times and i've said he spent many months and it's also in norway

00:23:22

one of my uh the power projects was this

00:23:26

series the towers fall also which at that time

00:23:30

that is that they didn't have any hockey had it in about one high rise building

00:23:36

and one of the characteristics of also there is a two 'cause it's it's

00:23:41

both it stock it has very cheap electricity and it also has a a

00:23:49

repository of

00:23:52

land tons but actually in the period about nineteen twenty nineteen thirty is lanterns

00:23:58

which often get at the top of shopping streets running along just about eye level

00:24:05

and i was fascinated by these and then i had this

00:24:08

idea that they housing towers would be made it is lanterns

00:24:13

and the then why would associate yeah i hear of this illuminated lands and with an english tradition which

00:24:19

is also i think a french tradition of the tube a when the little window that you look out

00:24:26

and then as you move up that's how the windows get bigger to the size of a whole room

00:24:32

and then hire our windows get to get to the saris

00:24:36

overhaul apartment and finally at the top of the tar the

00:24:39

whole top of the tower is a lot and so it's like manna from lance and lance and lance and then some

00:24:47

and celebrates this notion of up the electric light

00:24:51

as as as as the symbol up the tower

00:24:56

the room is this another thing i notice to also many times is that people need the

00:25:01

curtains open and the light a rooms in this dark dark yes you often get is lit

00:25:08

lit rooms you can just about see somebody moving sometimes you can't see anything angle but they ride their rooms

00:25:15

in the daytime there's saint house of colour the colour disparage

00:25:21

carefully chosen i notice that a lot of the function of this

00:25:25

architecture of also nineteen twenties and thirties uses certain palette

00:25:30

of colours i then discovered by going to the national

00:25:33

ah yes yeah but these colours we use by a lot of norwegian paint it

00:25:38

which in turn had coated the colouration all the plough it's but you get

00:25:45

up on the on the on the platters in towards the middle of norway

00:25:51

so that this was in a way very much

00:25:54

reflecting upon the conditions of also so i found them

00:26:00

moving to as a as a guest professor one summer

00:26:05

in brisbane australia i know this is there were these fascinating uh

00:26:11

bungalows these these these metal houses with with parenthesis which should

00:26:16

be built by the british yeah the days of uppers been

00:26:20

uh in order to get cross ventilation to keep the buildings away from that

00:26:25

funny animals that you get yeah and i simply said

00:26:30

at how could be a wee quotation up the same

00:26:36

the same ventilated bungalows as it were put one on top of yeah

00:26:41

in another city which i is coming a little more recently which

00:26:45

is the city where my wife comes from which to tel aviv

00:26:49

i was looking again at the natural conditions of the climate and looking at ways in which

00:26:56

grapes between the various layers of the skin could be

00:27:01

moving around the town ah at different times of the day

00:27:06

here are some further typical tiles for power as a series of apartments which rotate

00:27:14

and what the high in a creeping gotten it goes up the building

00:27:19

in the middle the london which is the area past it near where i live

00:27:24

uh and where number in this damn but those of

00:27:27

using vision joyce palms i called the project attempts to it

00:27:31

and the idea was the the the damn would be the board would be collected in

00:27:36

the tanks tall and and not trickle very slowly down the vegetative side of the building

00:27:44

um again to tel aviv on the right the building is located in that

00:27:50

if you look at the plan the corner that secular area the secular uh

00:27:58

circular area with a blank space in the middle which was actually invented by asking me my

00:28:05

and he persuaded a series of local architects to build a reign of set back section

00:28:11

buildings around the shops underneath and he said there should be three channels in the centre

00:28:17

but they never do three towns still even now it never built them semi cheaply said

00:28:23

well i will suggest three towels could go in the middle bikini top one we see here

00:28:29

is in the sense the symbol of how i read the television psychology

00:28:35

which is a big very entrepreneurial and so the tower is really like

00:28:39

a kind of kept that made up different entrepreneurial element strong ah combat

00:28:49

now another theme that has interested me tremendously and i haven't still get really applied it

00:28:55

is the notion of vegetation but as a form of opponents some on my favourite

00:29:05

but it tasted the pieces is this costs all in but spoken in germany where if

00:29:13

you look at the picture you see that there are a series of parallel pieces of vegetation

00:29:21

hi hitch lower hedge little hedge the to sort of

00:29:26

course much trees i object then the part another hedge

00:29:31

any other coming out of the ahead another embankment of vegetation

00:29:36

and that that was straight and for the tree so that there's series almost of stray shouldn't

00:29:41

all different types of vegetation as it has been affected by man

00:29:47

but not completely control the vegetation really that big

00:29:52

it'll it'll it'll grow and become become one could but it hasn't

00:29:57

it turns up and uh than than uh than high okay as well

00:30:02

and then i look at an english gotten which has another kind of interest for

00:30:09

me again in the foreground it's very carefully

00:30:13

prepared vegetation they that that that pushes or

00:30:18

slipped fairly cafe

00:30:21

in the middle distance the trees are also

00:30:25

still quite circumspect as well quite quite well discipline

00:30:32

t. i. that occur it's we it spooky misty

00:30:39

what goes on uh i've fascinated by the summation of control release

00:30:45

of control and mystery seen all those life yeah actually layers in space

00:30:52

with by

00:30:54

partner these days gavin right bottom uh we made a project for the venice

00:31:00

be now only one yeah well we took a whole piece of east london

00:31:05

and we probably would propose the whole series

00:31:07

of vegetative insertions into the suburbs of the chair

00:31:18

these often included some quotations of the things that you've

00:31:22

just seen some quotations of the tradition op the vegetable garden

00:31:29

and the p. up the vegetative building and also of of wearing things but actually ordered

00:31:37

actually again from gem you probably from the vineyard that quite snuck in in the files

00:31:44

and remaining in germany because i often get in many many many lectures and very often somebody

00:31:52

its comes up to the end selection say something like you'll thing down the road

00:31:58

ten kilometres well did you ever see this so to do it but

00:32:03

and that's extremely useful new rushed down at the next time you're in the air and you say

00:32:07

michael there really is one of my favourite things is in in cars for where this piece of

00:32:16

engineering was design so the the vegetation would be pop it in the

00:32:22

summer and making for some very boring people said to me no no

00:32:27

no it must've been plot to oscillator but last away but no i've

00:32:31

seen new regional drawing the proposed it as it did you take to space

00:32:39

i i was in now than the other days one is and i was just walking along the suburban street

00:32:45

and even then you get some quite jolly things happening with vegetation

00:32:49

his a piece of melbourne suburban a kindly put vegetation i quite like

00:32:58

but for a long time i have been appropriating some of these

00:33:02

ideas i'd be interested in weeping rather like colour sort of thing

00:33:07

weaving vegetation into an organised structure of having

00:33:12

a kind of diagonal vertical hoc all of coating

00:33:18

buildings with but the tension

00:33:22

i think that i've already hinted that it's the theme of metamorphosis this is the

00:33:29

the village project in some village which is probably about of all one afternoon project

00:33:36

uh the idea of a hovercraft which travels and

00:33:39

then stops and opens itself are becomes a village

00:33:45

yes later with the same engine is is worked on this building of the matter for

00:33:51

uh twelve polling and it's only days appalling agreement in i did

00:33:56

a it with christine holy a little building but i was teaching in

00:34:02

we had the court chart and we made it have a foot flat roof but in the summer revoked and sell

00:34:11

the name winter i tried just on this process novels while there's a village but perhaps the same idea

00:34:18

sitting around in your head it's sometimes the metamorphosis happens keep it in a in

00:34:24

a kind of proposed quite weird way this is a project called way out west berlin

00:34:30

where you have to look at the track does like object on the right to the drawing the orange thing

00:34:37

and over time and the cactus would take a but the building and become the building

00:34:45

which leads supper a a a lever project that

00:34:47

many menu drawing meetings sometimes to some quite all hybrids

00:34:54

remaining with the parallel themes of vegetation

00:34:59

and metamorphosis this is a project called the pitch house

00:35:02

the vegetative house in time you see the triangular area

00:35:08

all occupants see it on the top right you see as a cross section and a picture of what

00:35:15

is fine you know there's already some vegetation happening and

00:35:20

there's some rooming treasures and some ads and compact so

00:35:26

a little time happens and the vegetation starts to creep him up

00:35:31

the arm just the power packet small the rooms can reorganise them so

00:35:37

the pew on the top right but it didn't strain

00:35:42

time goes on and it becomes more more romantic b. b.

00:35:47

d. come the combination of artifact is both technical and digital

00:35:53

those pieces of hi-fi that happen in amongst the trees are

00:35:58

s. applies that happen in the months uh pushes the the

00:36:03

seeming became begins to be a one time

00:36:07

moves on and the vegetation becomes even more

00:36:12

insistent and some i use some well well it's from english language should have

00:36:18

but the slight your pocket to the notion of slow payment will be leaving

00:36:24

yeah i did did play a which is a very romantic yeah and then the drawing moves only gets

00:36:31

really very wild and strange and the picture of what it

00:36:35

looks like on the top right it's getting very kind of spooky

00:36:43

and the final drawing it's but see out of control

00:36:48

i say start i can't go new hundreds if this is too weird

00:36:53

if you have a better chance you can also have a pledge village narration

00:36:57

of and number please stop iterating wanting to have existing side to side this time

00:37:04

cities and the vegetation roles are rather interesting this

00:37:08

is the city of houston in in united states

00:37:12

well i was interested in a qualities of houston as a cost city

00:37:18

line under the trees what i suggest is that they cost

00:37:22

city can be program can be electronically programs that you can

00:37:28

not have to bother to drive you just dial in and then you sit back and play

00:37:32

cards or read the newspaper for people in the back up and then you go right into the

00:37:38

into the driveway and in order to mark this and this

00:37:43

and this uh to you you devise a series of embryonic

00:37:46

kind of billboards which are in themselves buildings it's it's much more recently

00:37:53

in crab we take

00:37:56

up up hypothesis of what happens when global warming i we haven't had much global warming in the last

00:38:03

few months i must admit but assuming that they're right about global

00:38:07

warming what will happen when london goes giggling on the the c.

00:38:11

and what what will happen when we happen or high tech left and when

00:38:15

we're struggling to supply we might build a series of sort of wood um

00:38:23

and having traditions that week crawl often supplied as we

00:38:27

are not nice mysterious in places are kind of like

00:38:33

she

00:38:34

ramshackle michael structures

00:38:37

it's strange part is within them though you can see that

00:38:42

there is still some of the same seems as as described before

00:38:47

including the creeping vegetation on a more practical

00:38:50

level this we applied to a competition project

00:38:54

in mass yeah i where we use both high and low tech uh systems all of

00:39:02

ventilation and cooling

00:39:05

and in fact we want this competition but then spade a web browser and it never happened

00:39:15

sometimes i and then to construct of vegetation this is a drawing that

00:39:20

i made all the hypothetical piece of landscape where i'm interested in demonstrating they

00:39:28

in session up and apparently architectural

00:39:32

set of elements into the vegetation but then if you examine the vegetation carefully

00:39:39

you see that's some of the structuring of the vegetation has architectural overturned and there are other

00:39:46

parts of the drawing where you can see it

00:39:49

every definite architectural object insert it into the vegetation

00:39:56

and i'm interested in me in in a kind of lap her

00:40:00

uh in in the in the ambiguity is between what might be

00:40:06

structured what could be structured what isn't structured what

00:40:10

is just to prove juxtaposed to get the structure

00:40:15

now i move from one menthol landmark and talk about architecture

00:40:20

all such things in general i have a question to ask

00:40:27

yeah

00:40:29

you too many architects face life with the prior face and then underneath

00:40:34

that exploded explain what that term po

00:40:37

faced means means groom and over serious

00:40:44

i suggest that many architects uh ah graham i don't have a serious nightly

00:40:51

wanted to please come from around these parts but uh so that how many

00:40:57

but hey they all are being very very serious

00:41:05

and i've broken the system because on on a on like many of the students often and

00:41:11

i should have made the mold black and white photographs so i've been a bit sloppy yeah

00:41:18

well why joey is what i call creative silliness

00:41:23

i was in santa monica one of my favourite places

00:41:26

and i went out at seven o'clock in the morning to get the english newspaper which you combine that morning

00:41:33

a lot of the hotel and so a guy with an animal on its head

00:41:38

you see the tall animal what did i do i went back to

00:41:43

the hotel and i sent an email to my friend my uncle lessee

00:41:48

uh i said there's a guideline here in santa monica

00:41:53

includes the trashy came back with another email saying yes i'm i think that's another one

00:41:57

somewhere because my uncle eddie when he was asked you have indeed done animals on his head

00:42:04

uh and there is a direct link and there's some you may now my and it's both uh

00:42:09

very esteemed teacher to barton is also now professor indians pro

00:42:15

uh and has his doctorate which if you trace back the origins

00:42:19

of the doctoral thesis you find that the animals are like a

00:42:23

um project feature so i would suggest you that there's a wayne up architectures is

00:42:31

not quite a serious which might include looking at people who have animals on their head

00:42:38

it isn't that an area that's been deeply investigate it sort of file

00:42:42

but but but if study an awful we've all been silly enough time

00:42:50

sometimes i i give a lecture and somebody suggests you know

00:42:55

they say that i should go look at something and so

00:42:58

election day and uh about five years ago of that very charming

00:43:03

lady came up to me and said just gave me an address i'd quite noticed this was a proposition

00:43:09

or quite what it was about but i went along to the address it was a show

00:43:15

and then when the the shot that was sausage open isn't there was several plates of sauce determinism

00:43:23

but you know it doesn't have to exist on the plate because you can even go

00:43:27

somewhere as sober and reasonable is also and find that there's real sausage uh there's some

00:43:34

uh and of course i have a pawn shop for this i have taken it down now i have to admit

00:43:40

but um it's a prolonged time i had kept admit that i've

00:43:43

done funny things myself in the in the church of sausage architecture

00:43:49

uh sometimes you have nice silly situations my friend mike

00:43:53

where you kids need as many lectures as i do

00:43:57

was in when you pick you know in the university of

00:44:00

manitoba when it k. and this gal that that in the library

00:44:06

is an aeroplane you see

00:44:09

i'm perfectly reasonable have university uh not just with one like here

00:44:14

where the ball bleep role but you can also have invested an aeroplane

00:44:19

in the library uh if you've considerably control an an aeroplane

00:44:24

that would raise for the interesting question now all of this

00:44:28

revolves around i think something which we have inherited which is largely

00:44:33

personified by the the cartoons of a man called william heath robinson who was

00:44:38

busy in the early part of the twentieth century before my time and he

00:44:44

invents all sorts of these silly things that very silly people are doing ah

00:44:50

as i've i mean with invention and i think is another wonderful thesis could

00:44:58

be written on the subject of he's robinson's work visa v. the british high tech

00:45:05

saying i'm inventing silly funny things the oldest do something we were talking

00:45:10

about on that just stopped and this project is full of on just bought

00:45:18

we don't have the prototype

00:45:20

you'll see in a moment the time a great lover of kiosks it's small buildings which

00:45:26

are conscious proper architecture and i was in about price are we talking about up right

00:45:33

but we somebody and and and and uh i was there for dropping a kiosk

00:45:40

and on the left you see there's this man it's it's kiosk

00:45:44

and that's me for his sees a time but to dropping him

00:45:48

and he brings his dock from the lower the counter say that in the second photograph

00:45:56

it appears as if the dog is running the kiosk

00:45:59

now that they in their sense of humour but he's actually

00:46:05

than oh actually they could not know who that such things as he's robinson existed

00:46:11

so we don't have a product or program property

00:46:15

which i i know this is

00:46:20

and i i now lock enough to be building some

00:46:23

knows is i i'm i'm sure it's like captures would have

00:46:27

a psychologist would have a lot of uh interesting why do i likenesses

00:46:33

i can't explain it but i do like nurses and i what women project if i can

00:46:39

um i'm also interested in the fact that our

00:46:42

program times we we suggest a lot of things appropriate

00:46:47

age boundary of what was a legitimate building we said you know building can mood we can can have

00:46:53

hi facility public who well it's my power copy shops aren't said in

00:46:58

the same and certainly when you get one that has not only the vehicle

00:47:03

the machine but also the additional overlap of almost got me whether the

00:47:07

typical graham propositions doesn't look back talk from the fact that it's or

00:47:13

and as i click chaos i find that this past

00:47:16

may think as parameters all the culture of a place

00:47:21

yeah for example is swedish uh cables it's very sensible

00:47:31

well boring

00:47:34

and the sausages are great great either

00:47:39

whereas in vienna sausages remote it and the people of pat and chaos useful on you know

00:47:47

as as a neon lights and all worked i didn't know that germany it's a

00:47:52

sort of modified for but rather pleased with itself chaos and in los angeles it's big

00:48:01

try our big people no messing with the

00:48:06

new all its main and touchy and if you

00:48:13

and in melbourne it's self consciously cultural

00:48:18

because mel vanessa self consciously colourful um

00:48:22

and in certain parts of tech uh it's very very silly

00:48:27

costello case model is being very rates in the japanese uh very much like being

00:48:32

we're both people enjoy just sitting around and doing silly thing

00:48:38

and having what was seen as a low culture but actually subs sending into half the time

00:48:44

no i was saying is that because i'm married to a person

00:48:47

from its right is that the israelis seems us up deeply troubled concrete

00:48:53

um by the way the city tel aviv was largely

00:48:58

00:49:04

and just train architects think of it just stop and think that lethal combination

00:49:11

so part of the party if they uh but there's some it uh or sears uh boulevards

00:49:16

and in the in the in the great german tradition of these but a lot you have to build a lot with bush far but

00:49:22

the dog the dock rapping on all of our trees and at the

00:49:28

double evolve before it hits the street is a modernist rounded coleman chaos

00:49:35

do we have the most successful tel aviv chaos uh the one really mace in place always has

00:49:41

look who has the best use and how it is about the scales at the end of the boulevard

00:49:47

in the city frankfurt germany you have similar boat or same doc wrapping and the

00:49:54

thing same trees same bush was see that yeah and rounded conan kills but oh

00:50:03

i think it's a good time side is a miserable turkish guy who's very sad

00:50:09

and there's some old drive parting outside and it's all of it

00:50:14

and you think when source of arthritis it should be telling the rest trouble

00:50:20

and and and and and frank where it's nice and

00:50:23

entertaining for some weird reason that's broadcast not thinking about it

00:50:31

so sometimes the nah uh office we we we enter key of competitions we

00:50:36

this one didn't seem to and what happened 'cause they they didn't even give a first

00:50:40

private just died but anyhow we've we've not does look to casper sometime design and in in

00:50:47

preston australia 'cause you get the typical breezy thing which is

00:50:52

again lots of big people very pleased with the most enough toilets it but they'll still technically kiosks

00:51:01

and uh then again back to melbourne melbourne is very interesting it's a parameter

00:51:06

some of the kiosks of various feet and sending that time and

00:51:13

they don't like planning on the electorate can is playing bass tone

00:51:18

and the lady singing in the hair is singing a medley strange

00:51:28

that that's mountain you know and uh and your eyes it's that kind of ah

00:51:34

are you trying to do the l. supplement whether that was right from all that

00:51:39

i'm not i don't to the kiosk is the board will i'm fascinated by the idea of

00:51:45

per and relation of walking around as i said earlier in

00:51:48

the bonus was developed with these board walks amounts of pine trees

00:51:53

and i've been passed mated to the seaside person and it's an observer of

00:51:58

how people pride interesting thing in that building and seeing how people are eight

00:52:03

all all not all i'm i'm relating intervals up it's

00:52:08

i don't think i say what the boring or examples up and here the people would

00:52:15

walk around the border can this is all this is for for an area name betrayed

00:52:20

well also ones dealing with cross ventilation and using the reason

00:52:24

talking talking kiosks under the bolting up the main building proposition

00:52:29

here was like all kind of and then shakes situation or

00:52:33

the n. is is is supportive the main building the chicks

00:52:38

all the chaos live on an easy and and the board will then wraps

00:52:43

around the true and we see the same thing with a bit of a little funny swedish

00:52:50

boardwalk more recently been looking at the proposition all that all will

00:52:59

a series of of of cultural events that is tacked

00:53:03

on to boardwalk moves around amongst the trees but i favoured

00:53:10

product still has about four point is old enough for

00:53:13

years old um is a competition we did for foot bridge

00:53:19

the requirement waltz for a foot bridge between two sides of the ribbons copy a

00:53:28

huh said to gavin having report to my problem

00:53:33

i think pretty kiosk on the bridge sheared off of it

00:53:39

oh and say hey why

00:53:43

right he asked move backwards and forwards that'll cheer up yeah

00:53:49

then i said hey why don't we put a bar on the top of the kiosk that moves

00:53:56

and the the legs come down like that on the back burner right drop down

00:54:01

it's it's a talk at night and then you know you can have a toss us a little bit to look at it

00:54:06

river and the kids can still buy the chop prices on the knee and uh we did that

00:54:12

and it's still one of my favourite projects line today didn't almost everyday try to whatever the

00:54:18

official content lecture somebody sitting up there will then you might have guessed we didn't win the competition

00:54:27

in case somebody says that's just what we want in our town

00:54:31

um and i i i'm just actually having a huge

00:54:37

amount given chat or similar chat and i showed this project

00:54:42

it doesn't take care of all places on the bar

00:54:48

they happen to be a guy from stock in tokyo as as always it's an

00:54:54

we you dead builder concrete but i mean we're we're stupid that we knew we couldn't win the competition

00:55:00

but we got all forms notion of the kiosk and the moving and observe

00:55:05

its bar i'm and you know sometimes you just have to do these things

00:55:12

sometimes we take carl european city and look at the

00:55:21

tops up the building i know t. and f. anyway

00:55:27

probably guessed with this might me you walk down a little to unsuspecting per hour

00:55:34

street the house of right side of the street because it's a boy it's our friend

00:55:43

the contest house and if you know it's it's it's

00:55:47

it's quite comfortably within the grain of the city he's now

00:55:53

he's acted why i think he's i had all that sits in

00:55:56

a buy something nice in the in the basket of crafts and

00:56:01

we didn't know pro i mean i you may not realise that actually

00:56:06

common knows it very very well and i have been and probably eight times

00:56:10

uh for various reasons usually to do lecturing not teaching in taking students

00:56:15

because of the rather interesting architecture that was already

00:56:19

there done largely by the people called process you uh

00:56:24

which is going to the manic and just give it a bouncy and

00:56:28

twelve carter and and poking 'cause such people's those who who what new well

00:56:35

and um we entered the competition or one hundred off and shoes and i think

00:56:41

one of the reasons that we won it was once you've accepted the the the bubble

00:56:48

it's a very simple project it is simply a pin and the skin

00:56:53

the pin is the travel later and the skin is the periphery

00:57:00

people sit in the restaurant watching a friend okay i'll translate it into the unknown

00:57:06

space about when it's a kind of the actual theatrical progression ah into the unknown

00:57:14

the lower part the restaurant and so on it's it's very open to

00:57:18

the streets really continuation straight up up it's it's it's mysterious this mysterious bottle

00:57:26

and the only nice asian is very simple versus a ground floor plan where you see

00:57:31

we diagonal triangular to just moving up between what we call the kind group pockets which

00:57:38

of the or solidified part on the ground go out into the main spaces which are all free

00:57:47

one of the things that we have to do

00:57:51

was to preserve the piece of building on the left the ice

00:57:55

in this house the old is peace cost diane in southern austria

00:58:02

and we would tell we must keep this because it is part of the local culture

00:58:10

we discovered that the pieces of metal been brought from england

00:58:13

in the nineteenth century they've been shut down from sheffield with that culture

00:58:19

sorry i'm not for that english guys the nineteenth century to sell the austrian some bits of metal

00:58:27

and there's some really english guys yeah the trenches and you sell some mastering dyson bits of plastic

00:58:33

that really comes the same thing i mean that's abrasive cynical view but i i i have a

00:58:41

i think you just some that is cynical view of what is called

00:58:45

indigenous culture i think everything becomes open actually once you've done it this building

00:58:51

might have been shocking to some you know three years ago never had it was no

00:58:56

it's part of the banana here you do why don't show like commander like one o. k.

00:59:03

well now

00:59:05

and why not have skin is that going to and from solid

00:59:12

to trance lose some to transparent and back to

00:59:15

solve it something which i've been interested in long time

00:59:19

even if the building itself in a sense is a craft building you know i will admit that but

00:59:28

do you juxtaposition of the pieces of plastic are every bit

00:59:33

you get it done by well that to some extent computer

00:59:37

a program but yeah that's still screwed by hand that's still in the sense a hand built

00:59:44

object and then not high tech this building was never high tech it's what i call crack a didn't

00:59:50

have the money to be high tech and wouldn't mean

00:59:53

totally totally impossible with ah the development of the computer

00:59:59

we know the company i know i can really draw with the computer but

01:00:06

we was all in agreement sent a young austrian architect lady

01:00:13

to plot and land but also we had drawn animals and and so so

01:00:19

and and some of her friends it sort of pocket them by computer but approximately

01:00:26

this go came we thought college and it's real can be really nightmare high

01:00:31

in the andes things keep the same page and then the most isn't factor

01:00:36

cons you multi lighting stuff is and the first one took care about half a

01:00:42

day to figure out on reiner i hopped up to land the second one talk about

01:00:50

three hours third one talk about two hours and she

01:00:55

left today i should plotted them all in about four days

01:00:59

and and and and that would be in you know in in the ground times we did thought of something

01:01:05

by right as soon as we want to be able to carry through with all the development of the computer

01:01:15

and of course one of the novels doesn't look knowles it looks it's the motion also

01:01:21

looks in the direction of the castle when you stand inside you will receive the cost

01:01:30

and the construction as i say is cracked check it's

01:01:33

not high tech it's a combination of concrete structure still structure

01:01:39

insulated panels in feel and the nozzles brought us prefabricated element

01:01:46

apart and there were twenty seven different contractors all sorts of strange bits

01:01:53

technology including lifting bits of it up on in

01:01:56

the book raymond welding in extra pieces of steel

01:02:01

an the section will be nice variation in in uh where is pretty simple

01:02:07

very straightforward

01:02:11

and the calls night uh huh body uh nine happened twenty pixel supply which have a hundred uh

01:02:21

degrees of variability of intensity or able to show movies

01:02:27

to be programmed by i'll just be program by anybody

01:02:31

she linked to certain phenomena going on in the city they can respond track

01:02:37

record to the number of people eating chips or whatever you want to program to

01:02:44

and to me one of the most interesting things having not done very many buildings

01:02:51

is is the it system the prince additional space you don't really get this in the planning

01:02:57

stages you get is the kind of interesting bonus when the building is constructed is sure is crevices

01:03:05

uh between your building and adjoining building at the sky becomes part of the operation

01:03:14

and of course there is a construct depressed element

01:03:18

when i was a student that they it was this wonderful called channel cost one

01:03:22

hundred one and says which you could see is a special deal in the library

01:03:29

and i always wanted to do a kind of kind to leave it

01:03:34

element out into the sky

01:03:37

as china cough it suggested and i do that you help riser

01:03:42

i notice to building which also some did been looking at china cough

01:03:47

and the notion copy

01:03:50

architectural artifacts seen among street as in

01:03:54

the drawing can also be adjusted in grout

01:04:00

the term is that lots of funny things that it they

01:04:03

many of them refer to to supply all the grocer brawl

01:04:09

all in england they attack the ball ups

01:04:13

we have the just the tradition of props in in london we have one of the

01:04:21

world's most wonderful blocks was done in the

01:04:25

nineteenth century and we have the television personality locally

01:04:34

i move on to some new things

01:04:47

i've been fascinated by the colour brew the first rebuilding yeah we christine holy was

01:04:53

a little piece of housing inbound in which has to count as rebuilding number one

01:05:00

in madrid

01:05:02

we moved on to the building number two which if you notice is that same

01:05:07

concept of the hand and shapes a nation of the party

01:05:11

of the building housing building sitting about was a collection of kiosks

01:05:17

and as proposed the idea was that they would be sports facilities on the top of the roof

01:05:23

that would be the kiosks with chicks sitting underneath the building

01:05:29

and then up quite a complex series of all automatic shutters

01:05:35

on the edge of the building ah you remember that spain

01:05:40

it's gone through an economic crisis some for for

01:05:43

yeah rob building stirred our bill finally they completed it

01:05:49

without l. sports facilities without shatters and with only the shells of the

01:05:55

kiosk which nobody can afford to open the cables but it is there

01:06:01

but i don't know whether to laugh or cry um

01:06:05

it it suggested to cause if you have a building which depends upon

01:06:11

certain artifacts to make it really you really come alive ah the basic

01:06:18

building it still does much of what it's meant to do because

01:06:23

of the organisation because of the ventilation and so on plastic doesn't

01:06:28

have all the accoutrements and this is this is a very i mean for me

01:06:32

i still haven't got my head around what one is meant to say about that

01:06:39

do you design buildings to the lowest common no denominator remove the

01:06:43

extra pieces will happen all the extras impact essential to the project

01:06:49

and if you strip back you lose the project i don't know i haven't been in that situation before

01:06:56

what we do notice certain fundamental architectural conditions or what's left

01:07:06

we were talking this afternoon about colour

01:07:13

we like colour

01:07:16

we've done a number project where we suggest colour this was competition for birmingham station

01:07:22

well we suggested the holes into the building would be series of colours

01:07:25

moving from one to the other with the red pacing a rather right rick

01:07:32

street the blue pasting future systems blue building and

01:07:37

it's where circumstances we we could make colour talk back to the coloured but uh but but i

01:07:43

mean by not rather grey city we thought this colour would also church are we didn't win the competition

01:07:52

another colour progression was it a project for type k. this alone about a half a kilometre

01:07:58

long strip of of a pear tree where the idea was it's it's a series of music buildings

01:08:06

and in the foreground we see the very bright colour large building

01:08:12

but down in this just octet label it done in the kind of stiff the steel right architecture

01:08:19

and then as the strip develops the architecture loose and it becomes less

01:08:25

distant less the rest of them to come to wipe wild yeah and ah

01:08:32

consequently the colour as it becomes lose the building comes loose that colour

01:08:40

becomes less so we looked from the other and we

01:08:44

see the variable lockers pizza building which uh now monochrome

01:08:49

this is a kind of essay in in in sick sequencing

01:08:55

which we have repeated in one or two other projects

01:09:01

another town huh and bob morris one um is for

01:09:06

the irises cottage near where i live which is also that

01:09:09

play the question of colour and surface as decoration

01:09:17

but we do do black

01:09:19

we have been known to be by this was capri chosen for old tricks city

01:09:25

which has a tradition of ship building nearby and we

01:09:29

borrowed from the old mold and ships which you got

01:09:34

where you use ah use hash well tile or

01:09:40

wood that's that's that's the finish of the building

01:09:46

and initially we wanna competition for the municipal theatre the barn yeah

01:09:53

you'll notice can spot up building in the background uh it is of

01:09:58

the colour of put on yeah which uses a lot of local turk also

01:10:03

and the proposition of the building was to complete a marketplace and line part of it's

01:10:12

building i'll with the system of alleyways leads

01:10:16

down to the lake also making sure that they

01:10:21

volumes and heights of pieces of building fit with you joining

01:10:26

heights of existing but but the thing about it is that that it's it's just municipal theatre

01:10:32

we strongly believe that the real sitter in a little town it says

01:10:38

on the outside of the auditorium another but we made great play up the steps up to

01:10:44

the search on the part of the cafes sit on the steps and the space between it

01:10:50

and the adjoining building where you could project films and where

01:10:54

children could have a kind of open method and then the market

01:10:59

close up on to this so that all the things the tradition that that

01:11:03

says it doesn't just existed the fancy auditorium jitters it's it up up the street

01:11:10

i'm really

01:11:13

in fall the project the whole thing is meant to creep up and really be more active

01:11:19

probably on the part outside your from the we

01:11:22

keep them there five hundred person auditorium as required

01:11:27

the real thing is the development of the candy into special spaces again

01:11:35

partially fall by manipulating computer and and and developing the

01:11:40

project through that a little bit of an antecedent with another

01:11:45

uh i'll small town project that i did with christine holy which was wrote

01:11:50

a museum last means in where again the building is very

01:11:54

very carefully tailored to fit with his young admit that ah

01:12:01

that back to towels you've had to run up up cows based upon the idea

01:12:10

all reading l. c. probably keep you get back to the

01:12:15

nineteen sixty three title see that i still regard the tower

01:12:19

as an all mature upon which things can become rather work with a lot of work a coating

01:12:27

and here we put the various droplets which are meant to be carrying the the time it's

01:12:37

cooper growing county in the developed version of the same ah we looked more closely

01:12:45

at the operators that is needed for the breeding of of uh feels by uh okay

01:12:53

and then in the final project we incorporated other means off of uh

01:13:02

using

01:13:04

energy harnessing energy lot of solar collectors when panel collectors and

01:13:13

the reading of five euros

01:13:17

and the idea was this time i would trickle down into

01:13:21

the sheltering up to par in interaction it's very very well

01:13:27

at night it would limit

01:13:31

and we didn't how contain the number the subordinate pieces of building

01:13:36

uh which some of which of the berkshire some of which uh public platforms some things

01:13:41

including wedding hole to think the thread it all to the top which is a caring amateur

01:13:50

and trickles down for him to the park and into the city

01:14:00

indiana we wanna competition formal school

01:14:06

the location is very trust the famous profit we're alongside the product gardens i

01:14:14

to risk that the final stage the competition

01:14:18

in drawing the other cartoonists like cartoon suggesting

01:14:22

that the universe they can can have all the funny things that go on in real life

01:14:27

and his a typical bit of the nice scenery people doing all sorts

01:14:31

of naughty things uh and suggesting that why can't they do that in university

01:14:37

um and we didn't is a competition risky thing but

01:14:42

we got away with it it is data largest building it's

01:14:46

very long in fact it's two buildings it's the law school

01:14:50

you see on the left and long almost locking onto it

01:14:55

it's essential administration and the organisations based upon

01:14:59

what we call the sunshine corners we get some

01:15:02

coming into the building and then as a crowd

01:15:05

already to the sunshine corners we get is internal

01:15:11

spaces you can see the marks on this plan but

01:15:14

the red x. it's it's it's pockets what people can do

01:15:18

again the things that are outside the critically we don't just want to be collection

01:15:24

the teaching rome's an interlocutor approach to be somewhere

01:15:27

where people can also hang often is slightly loopy spaces

01:15:35

with the sunshine one is working uh as a comp advanced uh

01:15:41

so the top left building is the admin building on the bottom

01:15:46

right building is a more building with the law library that big chunk

01:15:52

um well to use this little light breezes big chunk which has a card and it goes right over

01:15:59

the top of it and down again into the project gardens it's well it's quite well long and it's coloured

01:16:08

it's very coloured

01:16:12

uh that and what we get is one of the news is this is the

01:16:17

the copy shop nose at opposite it to the relationship the coffee

01:16:22

shop does and and and this is a building me the um

01:16:30

common room knows a nice to knows it's real aspect

01:16:34

like two cheeks really creatures you come into the building

01:16:41

we did it in time will also grow into the carton but

01:16:46

this is for oh probably out wishful thinking rather than what the uh

01:16:51

economics university of the animal actually or it's also it was good

01:16:57

have a series of of of of slats which deals with some of the some control

01:17:03

uh and formal kind of which could growth on top of the colour building which

01:17:11

here you see the arrangement talkie up the law library

01:17:15

and some pictures now a bit out of date up

01:17:19

the state of play inside the lower everything see that it's going

01:17:22

to be an undulating surface and there will be a series of pockets

01:17:28

these rooms with just suspended high as part of the building

01:17:33

with the car running over and the roof right so

01:17:37

the parts are designed so that people can sit on so

01:17:42

you might be sitting inside the lime green see somebody's backside on top of your which might be quite jolly we thing

01:17:52

and it's a colour building it's a stripe building with the darkest write ups

01:17:57

but ground level and then they'd come lighter and lighter and lighter and lighter as you reach the sky but the

01:18:04

sparring between we weren't allowed to travel the pros

01:18:09

the small rooms but the local car rentals remake with the dark

01:18:15

colour and the lighter roams the lighter colour in the dark problems now

01:18:22

i uh back developer i so so we were talking about uh yeah

01:18:28

somebody's bean

01:18:31

somebody's done variegated stripe building

01:18:37

was all my dreams come true

01:18:41

and i had the metaphor because way back in the eighties i also did

01:18:46

project for a coloured stripe building is pretty nice to

01:18:50

go report that one of the things you've been sitting on

01:18:54

that's an idea can actually

01:18:57

t. happen

01:18:59

some nice we do completely ridiculous competition projects have

01:19:03

no chance of winning such as this tsunami research centre

01:19:08

where we'll just raise it with the tsunami actually happening on the building

01:19:15

we suggest another project where the cycling becomes the and

01:19:21

the major university to know never bowed by needed but

01:19:25

the most boring lecture if you look out of the

01:19:28

window neckties whizzing around interest actually the idea came from us

01:19:34

being in kuala lumpur and watching there was a party

01:19:37

thing in kuala lumpur uh which was guys on scooters

01:19:44

driving s. goods is down about only about a two meter wide funny sort of trough

01:19:52

but somebody had the bright idea let's get the scooters away from the main street so we build a trough for them

01:19:58

caught that's where they end up kinda the tropical i thought

01:20:02

someone under the guise dashing down this this kind of shoot

01:20:07

and i thought i would be great for cycling and the slightest could and i'm a building but we didn't win that one either

01:20:17

sometimes you have an idea of sauce to do a project for magazine and i decided to do something

01:20:24

that interests me for a long time like the red channels but in this case is not a house

01:20:30

it's a comfort page two i'll see what is a competitive

01:20:34

edge top it's comfortable it's but it tasted and it's a problem

01:20:40

pretty enough for the comfort vegetables if i was lucky enough to

01:20:45

do a person inside out who have uh exhibition gallery or care

01:20:51

i went to south and we made a person of the comfort of it well

01:20:58

and it rides around

01:21:03

the exhibition space and then the ease people are enjoying become per page trial

01:21:09

i'm also tell ever knows that yeah that's right but some of them but big every naughty

01:21:15

makes it nice and comfy average trough to cause this entirely perfectly designed to being very naughty

01:21:22

and i've done something he would have never had the privilege of being able to do before which is to

01:21:28

have a series of ideas construct some of it

01:21:32

and then say let's get back using the constructed ah

01:21:39

in suggesting forward in other words you have the idea you

01:21:43

do a version constructed it's the whole way men you take

01:21:47

you document that constructed it you add them further

01:21:52

kind of drawn ideas on treats it like a roller part of the project

01:21:59

uh last year we had a number of jockey things we we

01:22:04

wanna small competition for the peruvians uh we constructed that we had

01:22:10

couple of exhibitions uh well we investigated uh

01:22:15

my wife did the the the case table i

01:22:17

mean it another stray we doing some strange furniture which ah come to on at the moment

01:22:24

uh another competition that we've one is for an architecture school

01:22:30

in queensland australia this is a picture of the objects to looking towards

01:22:36

the entry arch which is designed by a lot is is ah okay

01:22:40

this is our building it's an architecture school for three hundred students it's it's on

01:22:46

a little bit of a rise in the ground and in plan it is a street

01:22:55

which runs through here

01:22:58

with the nose

01:23:00

uh announcing the beginning of the street and the series of what we call scoops

01:23:06

units each group a slightly different and then the studios

01:23:12

which are on two levels was sometimes there's going up to the second level um some

01:23:20

research rooms and on the second control the administration and the

01:23:27

at the schools on usual toilets some some uh reading rooms

01:23:34

and the terrorists because we're in australia in queensland

01:23:39

gets very wall and being southern hemisphere that his moles

01:23:45

nasa's cell so that is a whole side so the knoll side just get very very

01:23:51

re small openings which puts over the windows and then you have to catch

01:23:56

this is a view from south with the scoops and you have to catch

01:24:02

catch the light but not cash to suddenly be very

01:24:05

careful not to let the right side extremely bright sunlight

01:24:11

and you have to hold that but

01:24:16

which

01:24:18

and he is a further explanation so we see the street

01:24:23

scoops and the southern will which is cool side and the nose

01:24:33

and you looking down the street

01:24:37

just as winding up the scoop to really quite quite large

01:24:43

the link is quite high area uh probably we hope quite dramatic i would like to

01:24:52

but not sound and you very very occasionally during our little bit of some come through

01:24:58

and that night slightly spooky

01:25:02

it's

01:25:04

it involves a lot all all manipulation again this would have been impossible but offer it

01:25:10

computer and also impossible without a

01:25:13

proprietary type special german expandable structured

01:25:17

we also is down there had not come across the structuring very much

01:25:21

a bit scared of what was that all got added expense it might

01:25:26

but we we we we persuaded them on the on the on

01:25:31

using the structuring and then by putting out traverse person in the office

01:25:36

on the case she she sorted out how you could use very very few

01:25:42

variations of the geometry and still get the profits you know you have to remember the time when this

01:25:49

cropped up about three years ago which i had

01:25:52

already been myself involved in teaching in architecture schools but

01:25:58

forty five while yes and gavin that big bowden teaching in architecture schools for twelve years

01:26:05

and a lot of it apple is they don't pull it didn't it's

01:26:10

of architecture school not just what you read in the in the the metric

01:26:14

handle one using the tells you where to put classroom but actually what goes on

01:26:21

in the school of architecture this is the cap now my to my my friends in the office said

01:26:27

oh it was a good idea when you did those cartoons for the end it do some more cartoons

01:26:33

i did about five or six they said they do some little carton yeah did about twenty or cartoon

01:26:39

uh as part of the competition submission we still on competition

01:26:45

well it's really life imitating art um my my colleagues

01:26:52

favourite traction as this one where there's a very pompous

01:26:55

i can manage an english pompous factor of of some

01:26:59

bright bright smart ass crazy sitting there as i preferred barbara

01:27:07

and there's barbara sort of reading from her notes and

01:27:11

and and the barbers friend wally garnet death definitely on the

01:27:18

and and and a friend charlie use wired up to sing which isn't gonna work

01:27:24

but but that you know i have had yet to dictate the bought it

01:27:29

oh interesting pieces of gadgetry where the teacher says i'm working on tuesday

01:27:36

you know and then you do the cradle 'cause it doesn't fucking work and then you're going down the current

01:27:42

all the next day and i just thought you left

01:27:46

units as the reminder well there is life imitating art

01:27:52

this is actually in style but it the the issues but at that and and some smart off the thing in rock right

01:28:00

very useful thing is to remain bolsters gavin and i do

01:28:04

knocking around lots of architects me to run remember different different examples of that

01:28:10

i think they have is yeah late at this rather good device but it's a high level cord or

01:28:15

we could look at what's going on in the crypt but you don't interfere with the credit if

01:28:20

you're really interested and you get on a spiral staircase going or you could you could each draw

01:28:27

and this is a quite of that where work that's it one of the teachers and and and a visitor

01:28:33

looks suspicious like a deal they're walking belongs looking uh_huh i'm pretty bright kid

01:28:40

the other thing which we think probably helped us win the competition

01:28:44

was that the university sold the building as a kind of useful

01:28:52

general purpose building for events but this is a piece of me flattering

01:28:58

the locals by suggesting that it was there would be people from princeton coming on great

01:29:04

ah all this which is a social situation with which we we're all familiar

01:29:09

uh how to organise the platforms of the upper level

01:29:14

and encourage students to be the is this poll character

01:29:18

who imagines and you might get a get offered together but i think he he stands very little show

01:29:25

but it might encourage him to come into the building a

01:29:27

bit more and his another piece taken from life encouraging people to

01:29:33

to work late at night because it's all see land so they got a bottle of you know the amber liquid

01:29:41

on on on the table and the thing stop trying to well to to know mine

01:29:50

and the chicken and the egg is something which we are all familiar with in in academe um

01:29:56

don't forget it the town go try it but it's it's it's a

01:30:00

p. beach town there is even the possible go to schools surface powered art

01:30:07

it's a big settings seats are here is jules who's a nice seeing the building again

01:30:13

gerald jules have mean anyone year college for

01:30:16

about three four weeks uh but he's call and

01:30:22

as the one of the faculty members drawing his attention yeah the faculty member doesn't want to get it

01:30:28

all that stuff i know from the other side of the cat and mouse game that but my key

01:30:33

activity on being appointed to a new school of architecture or be

01:30:38

movable to have a new room speed to figure out how to escape

01:30:45

the ticket if you're running the school is always somebody incredibly boring heading in your direction

01:30:50

and the casing is trying to find the route by which you can just get out quick enough

01:30:56

so the cat and mouse operate but later on we have design

01:31:02

the furniture for the building and it has been constructed it waiting no

01:31:07

in the sears containers to be shipped from china which cheap to build

01:31:13

furniture we had to keep the phone it should with him the australian

01:31:18

but no holmes all costing had to be as cheap as all read this kind of thing

01:31:25

australian academic furniture so we ended up having it made in chains and

01:31:33

checked in hong kong quality control in hong kong and it's being

01:31:38

shipped out as we speak and i think it looks amazing with the

01:31:44

the characteristics of the building and this this

01:31:49

locking together furniture which is all kinda colour coded

01:31:54

and the building is is when all this is a little bit way back actually

01:31:59

no you see the progress as it was about three months ago on the side

01:32:05

and the nose exists

01:32:09

and the building is rapidly taking shape is the some of the

01:32:13

existing architecture students down the allowed him for the first time uh

01:32:20

the roof is no actually on this part of the building in can

01:32:23

see it's looking pretty much like the drawings uh and there it is

01:32:29

with the roof going on

01:32:32

and the other and and then finally not falling group people who i haven't uh given

01:32:39

the storyline to yet but they are people

01:32:42

familiar from my history of of people who uh

01:32:48

work in an office environment it's and this is back

01:32:52

strangely enough to the same both where i first was a student

01:32:58

which in the yeah is that i've been away has become a grander

01:33:01

institution and most recently be made its own full university university of the arts

01:33:08

and i have been commissioned to do a small building

01:33:12

for drawing so these characters are some more characters i know

01:33:19

in the building for drawing

01:33:22

where we also throw we simultaneously been trying

01:33:26

the project around the computer looking at it

01:33:31

in all sorts of various dot suppositions and simultaneously making

01:33:37

handmade models

01:33:39

of the building and as it stands it's going to be a strange

01:33:44

animal sitting in amongst the trees uh probably

01:33:52

of steel construction in french spiel for the latest version already a year

01:33:59

question there was suggesting it was a lawnmower timber construction

01:34:03

move it off at aunt aunt proposing it and steel

01:34:09

and that's it really we have quite a funny time that's got no no no cussing about

01:34:16

and people coming and eating and sitting in arguing

01:34:22

discussing

01:34:24

and if you want to find out more gone website thank you

01:34:47

thank you very much peter

01:34:49

there is a bit of time for questions

01:34:53

would anyone like us some also said club again on the on the screen saver

01:35:08

i guess it has been a long day suffer you know questions

01:35:17

thank you very much for wonderful lecture

Share this talk:

Conference Program

01:09:02

Vernissage de l'exposition Las Vegas Studio
Sept. 21, 2011 · 6:09 p.m.

01:18:36

Quand l'architecture et le cinéma transforment les territoires délaissés
Sept. 22, 2011 · 6:36 p.m.

49:22

Suburbia does not exist. Strategies for dense city growth
March 14, 2012 · 6:38 p.m.

01:18:44

CONSTRUCTIVE REACTIONS. The Architecture of Kurtogpi
March 27, 2012 · 6:32 p.m.

01:03:21

Les coulisses de Malley
March 28, 2012 · 6:38 p.m.

59:33

Débat critique - Projets de première année
April 3, 2012 · 5:15 p.m.

01:28:31

Ensamble studio
April 16, 2012 · 6:36 p.m.

01:17:40

Le travail d'ingénieur et le projet de modernité
April 18, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

01:27:50

RUR: PROJECTS
April 24, 2012 · 6:20 p.m.

02:12:27

Conférence du cycle 'Pièces à conviction
May 8, 2012 · 6:34 p.m.

255 views

01:07:50

Paysages intérieurs
May 15, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

01:32:29

Yona Friedman, Genesis of a vision
Sept. 19, 2012 · 6:13 p.m.

01:29:51

Working in Mumbai
Oct. 4, 2012 · 6:40 p.m.

01:10:23

Yona Friedman and the Gost of Utopia
Oct. 10, 2012 · 6:13 p.m.

44:35

Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold
Oct. 12, 2012 · 6:06 p.m.

01:53:35

Just what is it that makes Friedman so appealing ? hier et aujourd'hui
Oct. 17, 2012 · 6:07 p.m.

01:11:39

Pour une histoire culturelle de la construction
Nov. 12, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

01:26:29

Partage d'expérience
Nov. 21, 2012 · 2:17 p.m.

01:02:27

Hall Of Mirrors
Feb. 20, 2013 · 6:09 p.m.

01:05:11

Happy Street
March 13, 2013 · 6:29 p.m.

01:19:27

Pier Luigi Nervi : l'architecture comme défi
April 17, 2013 · 6:09 p.m.

47:47

Pier-Luigi Nervi, entre ingénierie et architecture, chantier et images: Part 1
April 24, 2013 · 6:34 p.m.

109 views

35:06

Pier-Luigi Nervi, entre ingénierie et architecture, chantier et images : Part 2
April 24, 2013 · 7:22 p.m.

01:35:11

Présentation de Riccardo Morandi
May 1, 2013 · 6:30 p.m.

02:15

Présentation des conférenciers, MM. Aurelio Muttoni & Mario Alberto Chiorino
May 8, 2013 · 6:31 p.m.

01:48:35

Présentation de Robert Maillart
May 8, 2013 · 6:33 p.m.

128 views

59:55

A dispute of the ephemeral and permanent in architecture
May 21, 2013 · 12:04 p.m.

01:35:30

Peter Cook
May 27, 2013 · 6:12 p.m.

01:31:50

Radical Pedagogy: a collaborative projec
Oct. 29, 2013 · 6:32 p.m.

01:24:39

L'exploration du possible
Nov. 26, 2013 · 6:39 p.m.

01:36:37

Power of Place
Dec. 6, 2013 · 6:06 p.m.

Recommended talks

02:16:33

Mobilizing narratives and practical methods to recycle the urbanized landscape - Selectivity: towards an urban agenda for the Horizontal Metropolis in Flanders
Joachim Declerck & Michiel Dehaene
Dec. 9, 2014 · 5:26 p.m.

337 views

Peter Cook

Embed

Transcriptions

Conference Program

Vernissage de l'exposition Las Vegas Studio Sept. 21, 2011 · 6:09 p.m.

Quand l'architecture et le cinéma transforment les territoires délaissés Sept. 22, 2011 · 6:36 p.m.

PechaKucha 'Lumière Sept. 24, 2011 · 8:22 p.m.

Las Vegas, Film, and the Mobilized Gaze Oct. 19, 2011 · 6:33 p.m.

Metaphors We Live In Oct. 26, 2011 · 6:33 p.m.

Craftsmanship Nov. 8, 2011 · 6:34 p.m.

L'épaisseur des lignes Nov. 9, 2011 · 6:32 p.m.

La controverse Learning from Las Vegas Nov. 16, 2011 · 6:46 p.m.

Dans le paysage urbain Nov. 22, 2011 · 6:38 p.m.

An Aggregate Body Nov. 23, 2011 · 6:46 p.m.

Curating Postmodernism Nov. 30, 2011 · 6:41 p.m.

Pièces à conviction – Une périphérie prend forme Feb. 22, 2012 · 6:05 p.m.

Pechakucha 20x20 Feb. 23, 2012 · 7:03 p.m.

Espace, Lumière, Structure. 7 Concepts Feb. 28, 2012 · 6:32 p.m.

Suburbia does not exist. Strategies for dense city growth March 14, 2012 · 6:38 p.m.

CONSTRUCTIVE REACTIONS. The Architecture of Kurtogpi March 27, 2012 · 6:32 p.m.

Les coulisses de Malley March 28, 2012 · 6:38 p.m.

Débat critique - Projets de première année April 3, 2012 · 5:15 p.m.

Ensamble studio April 16, 2012 · 6:36 p.m.

Le travail d'ingénieur et le projet de modernité April 18, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

RUR: PROJECTS April 24, 2012 · 6:20 p.m.

Conférence du cycle 'Pièces à conviction May 8, 2012 · 6:34 p.m.

Paysages intérieurs May 15, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

Yona Friedman, Genesis of a vision Sept. 19, 2012 · 6:13 p.m.

Working in Mumbai Oct. 4, 2012 · 6:40 p.m.

Yona Friedman and the Gost of Utopia Oct. 10, 2012 · 6:13 p.m.

Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold Oct. 12, 2012 · 6:06 p.m.

Just what is it that makes Friedman so appealing ? hier et aujourd'hui Oct. 17, 2012 · 6:07 p.m.

Pour une histoire culturelle de la construction Nov. 12, 2012 · 6:35 p.m.

Partage d'expérience Nov. 21, 2012 · 2:17 p.m.

Hall Of Mirrors Feb. 20, 2013 · 6:09 p.m.

Happy Street March 13, 2013 · 6:29 p.m.

Pier Luigi Nervi : l'architecture comme défi April 17, 2013 · 6:09 p.m.

Pier-Luigi Nervi, entre ingénierie et architecture, chantier et images: Part 1 April 24, 2013 · 6:34 p.m.

Pier-Luigi Nervi, entre ingénierie et architecture, chantier et images : Part 2 April 24, 2013 · 7:22 p.m.

Présentation de Riccardo Morandi May 1, 2013 · 6:30 p.m.

Présentation des conférenciers, MM. Aurelio Muttoni & Mario Alberto Chiorino May 8, 2013 · 6:31 p.m.

Présentation de Robert Maillart May 8, 2013 · 6:33 p.m.

A dispute of the ephemeral and permanent in architecture May 21, 2013 · 12:04 p.m.

Peter Cook May 27, 2013 · 6:12 p.m.

Radical Pedagogy: a collaborative projec Oct. 29, 2013 · 6:32 p.m.

L'exploration du possible Nov. 26, 2013 · 6:39 p.m.

Power of Place Dec. 6, 2013 · 6:06 p.m.

Recommended talks

Mobilizing narratives and practical methods to recycle the urbanized landscape - Selectivity: towards an urban agenda for the Horizontal Metropolis in Flanders Joachim Declerck & Michiel Dehaene Dec. 9, 2014 · 5:26 p.m.

Klewel SA

What is Klewel?

Follow Us

Contact Us