Fourth Door News
Re-envisioning architectural symposia – two versions
I – In Lewes – This Saturday 29th September
Building with Water Symposium with MakingLewes
Water, Building, Architecture, Material Sources and the Future Symposium
Saturday September 29th, 13.30 – 18.00 Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD Tickets – £8.50 Concessions – £6.50 – Tickets availalble via Eventbrite
Featuring: Ruhul Abdin, Paraa (Dhaka-London architectural studio) and Niklaus Graber curator of the international Bengal Stream Bangladeshi architecture exhibition. Talking about how water defines building culture across sea level Bangladesh
Richard Coutts – principal BACA Architects – leading UK specialist floating buildings studio
Clare Whistler and Charlotte Still, co-founders of Pevensey Marshes Water Week Festival
Jane Trowell from PLATFORM
Andri Snaer Magnasson, Icelandic poet and environmentalist whose Dreamland book and film activism was instrumental in stopping the massive damming of central Highlands Iceland
Maggie Black – world water and sanitation authority and author of the Global Atlas of Water Chamchamal
Healing Garden for Victims of Torture and War Trauma, Northern (Kurdistani) Iraq with Leon Radeljic from ZRS
Architects/Engineers and Leif Hinrichson from the Jiyan Foundation
Building with Water is part of Make Lewes Festival 2018 in association with MakingLewes – www.makinglewes.org
II – In London – October 6 th at the Waterloo Oasis City Farm
Root & Branch – A Timber and Natural Materials All Dayer
Co-hosted with Feilden Fowles Architects
6th October 2018, 10.00am – 19.00, 18 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo City Farm, London, SE1 7QP Map
Highlighting CLT, regional British engineered timber and timber framing, thatch and rammed earth and complementing Fourth Door’s Unstructured Where Is CLT Going? edition
With themed talk sessions through the day, building visits, workshops, and a timber and natural materials micro fair
Where is CLT going?
Prof Gerhard Schickhofer, Graz Technical University – Professor
Schickhofer was instrumental in the early CLT research and the beginnings of Austria’s first CLT factory; KLH
Andrew Waugh, WaughThistleton at the forefront of London’s CLT revolution, including two landmark projects, Murray Grove and Dalston Lane
Liam Dewar, Eurban, the original UK CLT engineering and building company
Jonas Lencer, from dRMM, architects of Kingsdale School sports hall, the first UK CLT building and leading the turn to 21 st Century engineered timber in Britain
Regional UK timber and carpentry collaborations
Ed Fowles, Feilden Fowles, Root & Branch’s co-hosts on their timber projects including Homerton College, Cambridge
Steve Johnson and Nick Meech, Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, E Sussex , the pioneering Sussex timber centre
Alex Thomas and Jan Ciechanowicz, Timber Workshop and Pete Laidler, Structure Workshop, carpenters and engineers of the Oasis City Farm community barn
Adam Milton, Carpenter Oak & Woodland, the original oak and timber frame building company
Thatch – Renewing Bio-Based materials
James Todd, Architype – architect of the Enterprise Centre, their University of East Anglia showcase natural materials project and the first thatch facaded building in Britain
Rammed Earth – Ground Up Building
Rowland Keable, Rammed Earth Consulting, the UK’s leading rammed earth specialist
Philip Gumuchjidan – On Gmuchjdian’s Studio’s rammed earth work at this years Venice Biennale Tread Lightly Armenian Pavilion exhibition
Free though limited places, booking recommended via Eventbrite
An in-depth interview with Gerhard Schickhofer is here
Root & Branch speakers have been organised by Fourth Door and
co-hosted with FeildenFowles