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Newcastle University School Of Architecture, Planning And Landscape
Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape is based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Housed in a Grade 2 listed building in the university quadrangle (built in 1913 to a design by WH Knowles and adjacent to the School of Fine Art by the same architect). Its history predates the establishment of the university. History From the second half of the 19th century the Northern Architectural Association developed architectural courses in conjunction with the RIBA. These were held as evening classes for articled pupils in the School of Fine Art at Armstrong College in Newcastle, the forerunner of King's College, then the Newcastle Division of Durham University. King's College was established in 1937 and subsequently separated by Act of Parliament in 1963 to form Newcastle University. Notable staff * Bruce Allsopp Notable alumni * Harry Faulkner Brown, MC * Jack Lynn *Gordon Ryder * Alison & Peter Smithson * William Whitfield * David Rock, RIBA President 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Building, Newcastle University, 5 September 2013 (3)
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. The term comes ; ; . Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise ''De architectura'' by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good building embodies , and (durability, utility, and beauty). Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison And Peter Smithson
Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism (especially in architectural and urban theory). Personal lives Peter was born in Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, north-east England, and Alison Margaret Gill was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Peter served in the Madras Sappers and Miners in India and Burma, then returned to finish his architectural studies. They met while studying architecture at Durham University and married in 1949. They joined the architecture department of the London County Council as Temporary Technical Assistants before establishing their own partnership in 1950. Of their three children, Simon, Samantha and Soraya, one, Simon, is an architect. Alison Smithson published a novel ''A Portrait of the Female Mind as a Young Girl'' in 1966. Studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Clarke (architect)
George Clarke (born 27 May 1974) is an English architect, television presenter, lecturer and writer, best known for his work on the Channel 4 programmes ''The Home Show'', ''The Restoration Man'', ''George Clarke's Old House New Home'', and ''George Clarke's Amazing Spaces''. Early life Clarke was born in Sunderland and brought up in the Washington area. His mother, Anne, worked at Oxclose Comprehensive School, where Clarke was a pupil. His father, a printer died when George was 6, and his mother later remarried. By his own admission, Clarke was a popular but very shy child. Both Clarke's grandfathers were builders and, after spending school holidays in and around building sites, he decided he wanted to be an architect from the age of 12: There was nothing else I ever wanted to do. When most of the kids were playing with building blocks and pieces of Lego, I was actually on building sites. Clarke studied for a BTEC in Building and Construction at Wearside College, Sunderlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PechaKucha
PechaKucha (Japanese: ぺちゃくちゃ, IPA: etɕa kɯ̥tɕa ''chit-chat'') is a storytelling format in which a presenter shows 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each. At a PechaKucha Night, individuals gather at a venue to share personal presentations about their work. The PechaKucha format can be used, for example, in business presentations to clients or staff, as well as in education settings. Inspired by their desire to "talk less, show more", Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo's Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) created PechaKucha in February 2003. It was a way to attract people to SuperDeluxe, their experimental event space in Roppongi, and to enable young designers to meet, show their work, and exchange ideas in 6 minutes 40 seconds. In 2004, cities in Europe began hosting PK Nights and days, followed over the years by hundreds of others. As of April 2019, PKNs had been held in more than 1,142 cities worldwide. More than 3 million people have attended a PK Night. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Exley
Peter Exley (born August 2, 1964 in Harrogate, England) is the co-founder of Architecture Is Fun, a Chicago-based architecture and design firm. Exley’s projects include the DuPage Children’s Museum, the House in the Woods, a 21,000-square-foot (1,950m2) Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn, Illinois, the Exploration Station children's museum and the Young at Art Museum's exhibits and galleries in Davie, Florida. Biography Exley earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with first-class honours from Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 1985, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Prior to founding his own firm in 1994, he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago and London and with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Architecture Is Fun's work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the ICA in Philadelphia. In 2012, Exle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Parry
Eric Owen Parry (born 24 March 1952) is a British architect, designer, writer and educator. Parry is the founder and principal of Eric Parry Architects established in London in 1983. His built work includes the restoration and renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holburne Museum in Bath, 50 New Bond Street, 23 Savile Row, One Eagle Place in Piccadilly, Aldermanbury Square by London Wall, 30 Finsbury Square in London, and the London Stock Exchange. His projects also include a number of residential developments. Eric Parry's architectural work and design has been shown internationally on major exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British School at Rome, and the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Personal life Born in Kuwait City, Kuwait on 24 March 1952, to British parents Marion and Eric Parry, Parry's father was Chief Medical Officer in the Kuwaiti health service between 1948 and 1962. In his book ''Context: Architecture and the Genius of Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (architect)
Richard Murphy OBE (born 24 April 1955) is a British architect and businessman. He is the founder and principal architect of Richard Murphy Architects, an architectural firm operating in Edinburgh. He is a winner of the 2016 RIBA House of the year. Life Richard Murphy completed his studies at Newcastle University and Edinburgh University.Art Daily 31 July 201Press Release: Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture celebrates 21 years of Richard Murphy Architects/ref> In 1991 he formed an Edinburgh architectural firm, Richard Murphy Architects, and it has since grown to over twenty architects. In the early years, his firm focused on designing extensions to houses and mews conversions however have subsequently diversified onto education, healthcare, the arts and commercial work. They have worked on several UK National Lottery-funded buildings. In 1995 Murphy designed the first of the UK's Maggie's Centres, in Edinburgh, which now acts as the administrative headquarters for Magg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Farrell (architect)
Sir Terence Farrell (born 12 May 1938), known as Terry Farrell, is a British architect and urban designer. In 1980, after working for 15 years in partnership with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Farrell founded his own firm, Farrells. He garnered a strong reputation for contextual urban design schemes, as well as exuberant works of postmodernism such as the MI6 Building. In 1991, his practice expanded internationally, opening an office in Hong Kong. In Asia his firm designed KK100 in Shenzhen, the tallest building ever designed by a British architect, as well as Guangzhou South railway station, once the largest railway station in Asia. At the 2013 invitation of Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, his firm commenced the ''Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment'', intended to offer expert guidance on the direction of British architecture. Early life and education Farrell was born in Sale, Cheshire. His maternal grandfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Plater
Alan Frederick Plater (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Career Plater was born in Jarrow, County Durham, although his family moved to Hull in 1938. He attended Kingston High School. Jarrow was much publicised as a severely economically depressed area before the Second World War (Plater joked that his family left Jarrow just after the Great Depression to catch Hull just before the Blitz). He trained as an architect at King's College, Newcastle (later the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), but only practised in the profession briefly, at a junior level. He later stated that it was shortly after he was forced to fend off a herd of pigs from eating his tape measure while he was surveying a field that he left to pursue writing full-time. Plater stayed in the north of England for many years after he became prominent as a writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rock (architect)
David Rock (born in Sunderland, 1929) is an English architect and graphic designer, twice RIBA vice-president (1986-87 & 1995-97) and RIBA president (1997–99). Rock studied under Lord Holford and Peter Smithson who described him as "the most naturally gifted and talented architect he'd ever met". He then worked for Basil Spence for five years. He joined '' Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves'' in 1959 as Associate Partner to open its first London office; this office initially operated out of Rock's flat in Earls Court. Rock was responsible for BDP London during the 1960s, becoming an Equity Partner in 1964; he resigned in 1971. Rock went into partnership with John Townsend, an expert on bürolandschaft. In 1972, ''Rock Townsend'' opened, what would become, ''Workspace'', which further developed the idea of multidisciplinary working by providing office space for small design businesses. Rock was a supporter of the radical architecture group Archigram in the 1960s and 1970s. He nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitfield (architect)
Sir William Whitfield (21 October 1920 – 16 March 2019) was a British architect and town planner. Early life Whitfield was born in Stockton-on-Tees into a coal-owning family and studied architecture at King's College, Newcastle (later the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), where he was admitted at the unusually early age of 16, and where he later studied Town Planning after the Second World War. Career Whitfield designed the Glasgow University Library (1968) and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Extension at the University of Glasgow (1962–81), as well as an extension to the Newcastle University Students' Union building (1964) and University Theatre (now unrecognisable and called the Northern Stage). He designed the Business School and the Science Library at Durham University (both now extended). In 1970 a major bush-hammered concrete Brutalist extension to Whitfield's design was opened at Arthur Beresford Pite and John Belcher's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Ryder
Gordon Ryder (1919–2000) OBE was a modernist architect and co-founder with Peter Yates of Ryder and Yates, known for designing a number of modernist buildings in the north-east of England in the 1960s. Ryder studied architecture at Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape (then King's College, Durham) then in 1948 began working for Berthold Lubetkin on the designs for Peterlee new town. In 1953, he formed Ryder and Yates with Peter Yates, who had also worked with Lubetkin at Peterlee, one of the first multi-disciplinary practices that integrated architecture and engineering. Key projects were two buildings for Northern Gas in Killingworth; the Northern Gas Board offices built in 1963 and subsequently the Gas Council Engineering Research Station (1966-7), "a cool Corbusian building of white concrete", which won the Financial Times' industrial architecture award in 1968, and a Royal Institute of British Architects award the following year. Both are now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
