AA Building Conversations: Sivill House with Tyen Masten
Series : AA Building Conversations
Date : June 6 2019
Time : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location : Sivill House
Ticket Price : £0.00
A building visit led by Tyen Masten of PHASE3, of Sivill House by Skinner Bailey & Lubetkin, co-led by Sofia Krimizi, AA PhD candidate.
Sivill House
Sivill House was completed in 1962 in the Constructivist style and designed by Douglas Bailey, Francis Skinner and Berthold Lubetkin, the successors to the Tecton Group. The 76-flat council housing block on Columbia Road has 19-storeys, at a total height of 59m and is nearby to the Dorset Estate which was also designed by the same team.
Tyen Masten
Designer Tyen Masten is founding director of PHASE3, an architecture practice with work that goes beyond traditional expectations of building. PHASE3 operates as a platform that connects architecture, thinking and design to create big, serious, thoughtful projects. Tyen was a tutor at the AA in both the Diploma and Intermediate School between 2005-2017. During his tenure at Zaha Hadid Architects (2004–12) he successfully led the design on a multitude of projects in the Middle East and across the UK.
AA Building Conversations
AA Building Conversations brings together practicing architects and AA members to discuss in-situ how existing buildings in London have influenced, sharpened or challenged the architects’ own practices and understanding of the discipline. The conversations will be triggered by an AA PhD student, and will be a collective construction among all those present. This project has been initiated by Gabriela Garcia de Cortazar (AAPhD 2016), and realised by AA membership and AA PhD candidates Sofia Krimizi & Alvaro Velasco.
Open to AA Members. Become a member. Book your place using the form below.
AA Building Conversations: Drawings Study Room & Cast Courts, V&A, with Peter Wilson
Series : AA Building Conversations
Date : June 6 2019
Time : 3:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Location :
Ticket Price : £0.00
A visit to the Drawings Study Room and the recently re-opened Plaster Cast Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum, led by Peter Wilson of Bolles+Wilson, in conversation with Elena Palacios (AA PhD candidate).
Drawings Study Room & Cast Courts, V&A
Architect Peter Wilson will be showing a collection of his own drawings currently archived at the V&A drawing collection, followed by a tour of his favourite moments in the Plaster Cast Courts. Peter will relate his reading of the V&A to Walter Benjamin’s concept of history. The Plaster Courts are one of the most significant rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, gathering copies of relevant works of art. The Courts have recently reopened after a conservation project and the new setting brings together the paradoxes of the conservation of reproduction and the deterioration of the actual monuments, the current state of the Court and the restoration of the copies to its original 19th-century display.
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson studied at the University of Melbourne, Australia, 1969-71, before attending the Architectural Association from 1972-74, and graduating with the Diploma Prize. He subsequently taught at the AA from 1974-88. In 1980 he set up his practice Bolles+Wilson with Julia Bolles-Wilson and relocated to Munster, Germany in 1989. Alongside design work, Peter Wilson has lectured and run studios worldwide, acting as Guest Professor for both the Kunsthochschule Wiebensee and the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio. He was a visiting professor from 2013 – 2014 at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and an International Fellow of the RIBA since 2014. In 2009 he was awarded the President’s Prize of the Australian Institute of Architects and in 2013 the Gold Medal of the Australian Institute of Architects.
AA Building Conversations
AA Building Conversations brings together practicing architects and AA members to discuss in-situ how existing buildings in London have influenced, sharpened or challenged the architects’ own practices and understanding of the discipline. The conversations will be triggered by an AA PhD student, and will be a collective construction among all those present. This project has been initiated by Gabriela Garcia de Cortazar (AAPhD 2016), and realised by AA membership and AA PhD candidates Sofia Krimizi & Alvaro Velasco.
Open to AA Members. Become a member. Book your place using the form below.
Meet at the new entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum on Exhibition Road