Architecture Foundation

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1. Moore Park Mews, Stephen Taylor Architects @stephentaylorarchitects 2. Walmer Yard, Peter Salter and Fenella Collingridge 3. Middlemass Green in Pewsey, Tony Fretton Architects @t_fretton 4. Sheeling Close in Aldershot, Sergison Bates Architects @sergisonbates_london 5. Smart’s Place, David Kohn Architects @davidkohnarch All of these projects were commissioned by Baylight Properties @baylightproperties , a company that, for the past thirty years, has established a reputation as the most adventurous and enlightened house builder in the UK. On June 9th, the company’s founding director Crispin Kelly will speak in the Architecture on Stage programme on the occasion of the publication of a new book from @lhartbooks , documenting Baylight’s work. Tickets are now available via the Barbican box office. 🔗Link in bio.

Commissioned by His Highness the Aga Khan, the new Ismaili Centre in Houston @ismailicenterhou is conceived as a venue for educational, cultural and social exchange. A large atrium brings together galleries, classrooms, a theatre, café, banquet spaces and prayer hall, while limestone screens and patterned façades temper the fierce Texan light. 🎤On 11 June, the building’s architect, Farshid Moussavi, will give an Architecture on Stage lecture in which she will reflect on the Centre’s radical interpretation of Islamic design principles and its role as a stage for encounters between people of diverse backgrounds, faiths and traditions. 🎟️Tickets are now available via the Barbican box office .uk. 🔗Link in bio Photographs: Iwan Baan @iwanbaan Drawing of the prayer hall ceiling: Farshid Moussavi Architects Engineering: @akt_ii

Morgan Day, author of the debut novel The Oldest Bitch Alive, is on the pod this week. The book explores the thoughts and existential angst of an ageing French bulldog beset with parasitic worms. It is a deranged, surreal and mind expanding book that dissolves the boundaries we draw around ourselves and our environment. Out this month from @akoya_publishing and @astrahousebooks . Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across literary fiction and professional architecture writing. She’s written for many architects including the firm @big_builds where she edited the third volume of their Formgiving trilogy for @taschen . Her writing has appeared in @parisreview , @ecotonemagazinee and @gulfcoastjournal . @yeah_okday @akoyapublishing @astrahousebooks Image credit: “Ungodly” by Ambera Wellman, 2021. @damnbera

Opened in 2014 at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, Reiach and Hall’s Maggie’s Lanarkshire is a calm, protective cancer-support centre conceived as architecture and garden in one. A low brick enclosure folds around intimate planted rooms, separating visitors from the hospital while admitting filtered views, daylight and air. It was the first Maggie’s Centre to make the garden such an explicit generator of the plan. 🎤On May 26 Neil Gillespie @jneilgillespie of the Edinburgh-based Reiach and Hall @reiachandhall will be speaking in the Architecture on Stage programme. 🎟️Tickets are available via the Barbican Centre box office - link in bio.

Part Four: In Practice This Thursday, we are joined by six practitioners working within and around the built environment, across image, sound, graphic, and spatial design. Through conversation, we invite the audience to consider architecture beyond the work of disciplinary specialists alone: as an activity of creating shared communities of experience. Tickets for the event are available at the link in our bio. Tickets include entry and a free drink. All proceeds contribute to ongoing support for emerging artists and designers. Genevieve Lutkin (@genevievelutkin ) 1 – Interior and event photography for Completedworks, London 2 – Interior photography of Lemaire Space at Dover Street Market, London Sebastian White (@kellenbergerwhite ) 3 – Identity for Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (@goldsmithscca ) 4 – Identity for Charleston (@charlestontrust ) Armaan Bansal (@anda__ba ) 5 – Design and art-direction of collection_02: another brush with shadows 6 – Design for Kartik Research store at 61 Orchard Street, New York (@kartikresearch ) Shivas Howard Brown (@friendly.pressure ) 7/8 – Build and view of Studio One system for Capsule Plaza at Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, in collaboration with @stoneisland RubinoWilson (@rubinowilson.fabrication ) 9 – Fabrication for ‘Lack slit system’ by Emanuel de Carvalho (@emanuel__car ) 10 – Design and welding for STUDIO ENYO, Collection I In collaboration with @architecturefoundation Chaired by Benni Allan @ebbaarchitects

Aslı Çiçek’s scenography for Brancusi: Sublimation of Form at BOZAR @bozarbrussels translated the atmosphere of the artist’s Paris studio into a carefully staged sequence. Unable, for conservation reasons, to place many sculptures directly on the gallery floor, she used vitrines and glass pedestals to create layered, transparent views, so works appeared to hover and converse across rooms. Inspired by Brancusi’s photographs and Ottoman miniature composition, the design treated movement, gaps and sightlines as part of the exhibition’s expression. 🎨🎭Aslı Çiçek @cicek_asli is a Brussels-based architect whose practice focusses on scenography for exhibitions and performance. 🎤She will speak as part of the Architecture on Stage lecture programme at the Barbican Centre @barbicancentre on May 18th. 🎟️Tickets are available via the link in bio.

🌲 Join us on Saturday 16th May for a tour around 2 Regal Lane. This self-built house was among the first projects tackled by the architect John Winter following his return to London after a period working in the United States. Inspired by his experience of assisting colleagues in New England on the construction of their self-built houses, he bought the end-of-terrace site, which was occupied by two garages and overlooks Regent’s Park, for £700. The architect’s original plan to demolish the garages was frustrated by the council’s insistence that any new building would have to be 5ft back from the existing site boundary. He therefore developed a project that retained the garage walls, enabling it to be treated as a conversion. Tickets are available from the Architecture Foundation Shop, link in bio. Photographs: Matthew Blunderfield @blndrfld

Asli Çiçeck’s scenography at Maison Hannon in Brussels allows for the display of an important collection of Art Nouveau furniture within Jules Brunfaut’s celebrated townhouse. Respecting the refined interiors, the scheme relies on portable, flexible displays that can support future exhibitions without altering the museum’s fabric. Stainless-steel cases form a small, precise family. Square acrylic panels act as modular, transparent pedestals, protecting floors while preserving their visibility and adding subtle reflection. Signage and shop fittings share the same language. Pleated curtains provide domestic softness, filtering light while maintaining views to garden and street. 🎤Asli Çiçeck @cicek_asli will be speaking in the Architecture on Stage programme on May 18th. Tickets are available via the Barbican box office - link in bio. 📷Maxime Delvaux @maxdelv

🧱 ARCHITECTURE ON STAGE: NEIL GILLESPIE, REIACH & HALL 🗓️ Tuesday 26th May, 19:00 📍 Barbican Centre The Edinburgh-based Reiach and Hall is among the most highly regarded architectural practices operating in Scotland today. Shortlisted on four occasions for the Stirling Prize, the firm has been responsible for work ranging in scale from private homes to hospitals and higher education facilities. In a talk entitled ‘In Two Minds’ the practice’s director Neil Gillespie focuses on a small selection of Reiach and Hall’s projects that have held particular personal significance for him. @reiachandhall @jneilgillespie Image: The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority & Caithness Archive, Wick Tickets available from the Barbican website, link in bio.

🟦 House E by Weyell Zipse sits on the tip of the Istrian peninsula, the single storey building surrounded by shrubbery and pine. @weyellzipse   The house is perched on a concrete stage, with iridescent tiles cladding the envelope, punctuated by timber doors and light blue shutters. Inside, the main rooms are defined by a central concrete spine and a patchwork of floor coverings that separate the kitchen, dining and living spaces.   Weyell Zipse is an architectural practice founded in 2016 in Basel by Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse. Both partners have previously taught at ETH Zurich, and were appointed guest professors at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2024.    🗓️ They will speaking as part of the Architecture on Stage series on Monday 27th April. Tickets available from the Barbican website – link in bio. Image: Christian Weyell