Store Street: Sir Peter Cook presents... Squinting - Blinking - Growing
Monday 13 October 2008, 6.30 pm
Featuring Squint Opera, Jason Bruges and Baubotanik Store Street on Monday 13 October follows last month's amazing threesome with another that will again peer into the territories that are beginning to animate and stretch the architectural scene beyond its boundaries.
BODY, SOUND and GROUND
Store Street 18
Monday 15 September 2008, 6.30 pm
For the start of its third season, Peter Cook's Store Street chat-show brings together three intriguing personalities on the creative margins of architecture. Experts in their respective fields, Peter Cook will try to find commonalities, shared grounds and explore connections between the senses.
Celebrating the Drawing
Store Street 17
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 6.30 pm
A 'studio' evening in which Peter Cook will welcome several London-based architects who use drawing as the basis of architecture that contains radical ideas. It forms the basis of his new book 'DRAWING - the motive force of architecture' published by Wiley and being launched as part of the event.
Helen & Hard
Store Street 16
14 April 2008, 6.30 pm
Helen and Hard are a resourceful model of 21st Century young architects: known on a European grape-vine by other young architects who are intrigued by creative lateral thinking. They operate out of Stavanger, a small but enterprising city that has grown with the oil industry.
Heneghan Peng
Store Street 15
Monday 17 March 2008, 6.30 pm
Peter Cook writes: 'We were out there again in Cairo, as a jury that had worked its way through more than 1500 entries for the Great Egyptian Museum. The final 20 (second round) the final six (ninth day)...a clear winner. Exquisitely worked, clear, sophisticated... but who? We ran theories, we set up a book; the envelope was opened in the presence of a lawyer
Jakob and Macfarlane
Store Street 14
Monday 25 February 2008, 6.30 pm
The current run of Store Street evenings in which Peter Cook winkles out the stories behind the stories of current meteoric rise of original younger architects continues on February 25 with the visit of Dominique Jakob and Brendan Macfarlane from Paris.
Carmody Groarke
Store Street 13
Monday 28 January 2008, 6.30 pm
Winners of Building Design's Young Architect of the Year Award for 2007, Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke have come a long way since they opened their studio just 2 years ago. Using the competition system as a way of building their portfolio they have had great success winning the RIBA competition for the Sheffield Festival Centre, the Architecture Foundation/ British Land Osnaburgh Street Pavilion in Euston and Royal Parks' commission for the 7/7 memorial in London.
Aedes Berlin
Store Street 12
Friday 16 November 2007, 6.30 pm
Aedes was founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss in Berlin as the first private architecture gallery in Europe. In 1995, under the name of Aedes East, another Berlin-based branch was opened in Mitte by Kristin Feireiss together with her partner Hans-Jürgen Commerell. The Architecture Forum Aedes has become one of the most successful international institutions for communicating architectural culture and urban design. Aedes is widely associated with the great names of the architectural avant-garde and has offered an excellent platform for new generations of architects in a global context including such high profile figures as Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas. Thus far, the architecture forum has received numerous awards and honours for its successful work and in 2001 Kristin Feireiss was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Piers Gough & Eva Jiricna
Store Street 11
Monday 22 October 2007
This very special instalment of the Store Street lecture series brings together two of London's most iconoclastic architects, Piers Gough and Eva Jiricna, to talk about unconventional architecture, working on exhibition and museum design, and celebrate Peter's birthday!
Zvi Hecker
Store Street 10
1 October 2007
Zvi Hecker was born in Krakow in Poland and emigrated to Israel first to study and then to teach at the Technion. He was so committed to the quality of his first building on campus that he is believed to have personally smashed in the windows during construction as such was his dissatisfaction at their construction.
Thom Mayne
Store Street 9
Monday 4 June 2007
This month, the renowned Los Angeles architect, Thom Mayne, joins Peter Cook in this special afternoon instalment of Store Street. Thom Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has held numerous teaching positions including Columbia, Harvard, Yale, The Bartlett and most recently, UCLA. Mayne, the so-called angry young man of Los Angeles architecture, will present some of his most recent work and talk with Peter Cook about complex architecture, the new era of architectural experimentation and building (at last count) three aggressively modern buildings for the United States government. Mayne was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 2005.
Graham Stirk + Ivan Harbour
Store Street 8
14 May 2007
Peter Cook invites Richard Rogers' two new partners in the firm of Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners to present their new work and ideas. For more than twenty years Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour have been key designers and latterly Directors of the Richard Rogers Partnership. With key figures such as John Young having retired to the American desert and Mike Davis ending on the high of Terminal 5, Rogers and his colleagues have taken the creative step of jumping in with the under-50s generation.
Kathryn Findlay & Nigel Coates
Store Street 7
Monday 16 April 2007
Store Street No 7 featured 2 of the UK’s best known architects, both of whom are known for their work in Japan and for their prominence in academia. Kathryn Findlay returned to the UK from Japan five years ago and has continued to produce extraordinarily original and challenging designs for houses, bath-houses and small public buildings. Nigel Coates, after many years of exotic architecture, has transferred the bulk of his design activities to the Royal College of Art where he is the Professor of Architecture. He continues to practice as Branson Coates Architects and also enjoys considerable respect as a critic and cultural commentator; his RCA exhibit 'BabyLon:don' at the last Venice Biennale being particularly well received.
Two Twosomes Win Twice
Store Street 6
Monday 19 March 2007
STORE STREET No 6 celebrates a double-double for two London based couples. In 2005 the Bovis Prize at the Royal academy was won by Laura Allen and Mark Smout for models of a project concerning the disappearing coastline of Norfolk. This formed a small part of their winning submission ‘RESTLESS ARCHITECTURE’ to the international competition to have an issue of Pamphlet Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press) devoted to their work. Founded 20 years ago by Stephen Holl, these small books have launched such names as Lebbeus Woods and Neil Denari. It will go to press this month.
Hanif Kara and Paul Westbury
Store Street 5
Monday 26 February 2007
Store Street 5 brings together two of the worlds most eminent engineers.
Hanif Kara is Zaha Hadid’s engineer of choice having just completed work on the Wolfsburg Science Centre and currently working on the Napoli-Afragola Train Station. Paul Westbury is a Partner and Director of Buro Happold and leads the Design & Technology Board promoting blue sky thinking and innovation. Both speakers have influenced and inspired the architects with whom they have worked.
Xefirotarch and Studio Kolatan/ MacDonald
Store Street 4
Monday 29 January 2007
The first Store Street event of 2007 brings together two of the hottest digital architecture firms on the planet. Hernan Diaz Alonso is one of the most gifted of an emerging second wave of architects associated with the use of computer animation software, working in the offices of Enric Miralles and Peter Eisenman before opening his own office, Xefirotarch, in 1999.
Ken Yeang
Store Street 3
Monday 11 December 2006
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Gallic Evening: Odile Decq, Didier Faustino and Christophe Egret
Store Street 2
20 November 2006
Following the previous sell out evening featuring Zaha Hadid and Lebbeus Woods Store Street was pleased to welcome Odile Decq, Didier Faustino and Christope Egret.
Odile Decq, well known to UK audiences for her Rome Museum and other projects was be joined by Didier Faustino who has intrigued and shocked visitors to the ‘Artists’ Space’ in New York and the Venice Biennale with such installations as ‘Love Me Tender’ concerned with space, corporeality, desire and dysfunction… and by Christophe Egret of the London office Studio Egret West, London’s most discussed French architect.
Zaha Hadid & Lebbeus Woods
Store Street 1
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