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Our annual architectural symposium continued to look at the positive impact of innovation in construction and design in confronting some of the many challenges we face in contemporary society. It considered how thinking differently can present new solutions to old problems and looked at how imaginative architectural solutions can help shape our everyday lives. The focus of the talks were on the concept of home and dwelling, subject matter that was interrogated by a selection of leading architectural thinkers in this field presenting on a range of creative projects and ideas.
The subject of housing has moved up the political agenda, with the current government promising to build 1.5 million new homes during their five-year term. Whether this is achievable or even desirable is certainly debatable, but issues of scale, design, beauty, sustainability and appropriateness are rarely discussed. The symposium will bring these ideas to the fore and consider the relationship between aesthetic design and functionality.
On the Day:
10:00: Arrival
Morning Session: Housing (Groups of dwellings)
10:30: Welcome: Johnny Messum
10:35: Introduction: Peter Clegg
10:40: Keith Bradley, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
11:00: Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects ‘Housing for a Better Life’
11:20: Mellis Haward, Archio ‘Citizen’s House, London’s first purpose-built community land trust housing’
11:40: Alex Ely, Mae Architects ‘Making the ordinary extraordinary’
12:00: BREAK
12:30: Panel discussion, chaired by Keith Bradley
12:50: Audience Q&A
13:00 – 14:30: LUNCH
Afternoon session: Homes (Individual dwellings)
14:30: Introduction: Mike Stiff, Stiff + Trevillion
14:40: Clementine Blakemore, Clementine Blakemore Architects
15:00: Magnus Ström, Ström Architects ‘“Quiet luxury” in architecture’
15:20: Abigail Hopkins and Amir Sanei, Sanei Hopkins Architects ‘Homestead’
15:40: BREAK
16:10: Panel discussion, chaired by Mike Stiff
16:30: Audience Q&A
17:00: Close
